Various educational reforms in Sweden have resulted in a formally equivalent educational system for deaf and hearing pupils. Has this resulted in equal levels of educational attainment? This article compares 2,144 people born between 1941 and 1980 who attended a special education program for the deaf and 100,000 randomly chosen individuals from the total population born between 1941 and 1980. D...

Profoundly deaf people can have trouble mixing socially, and children born deaf rarely develop spoken language compared with persons who hear. Both groups can benefit from the cochlear implant. It has a microphone that passes signals to a small processor worn behind the ear. Coded information is then transmitted through the skin to the implanted unit behind the ear. This transmission stimulates...

Different studies have showed poor reading performance in the deaf compared to the hearing population. This has overshadowed the fact that a minority of deaf children learns to read successfully and reaches levels similar to their hearing peers. We analyze whether deaf people deploy the same cognitive and learning processes in reading as their hearing peers. For this purpose, we analyzed the re...

The silent films of the early 1900s had a huge audience, hearing and deaf, for public entertainment and instruction. The advent of "talkies," however, excluded deaf people from this means of access to mainstream American culture. In response to a new need for both captioned educational and entertainment films for deaf people, Congress passed Public Law 85-905 in 1958, which established Captione...

This article examines the extent to which Short Message Service (SMS) messages are breaking down communication barriers among deaf people and between deaf and hearing people. It is predicted that deaf texters will use SMS to increase the bonds between themselves in deaf communities, creating new opportunities to develop relationships, understanding, and intimacy with those not physically presen...

Croatia has a rich tradition of activities aimed at integration of the deaf. The Croatian Association of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing was established in 1921 and today has approximately 9000 members in 23 organizations. This association is a member of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) and the International and European Federation of Hard of Hearing People, and it is also affiliated to the ...

This paper presents an intelligent tool to summarize Arabic articles and translate the summary to Arabic sign language based on avatar technology. This tool was designed for improving web accessibility and help deaf people for acquiring more benefits. Of the most important problems in this task, is that the deaf people were facing many difficulties in reading online articles because of their li...

deafness is a heterogeneous condition with far-reaching effects on social, emotional, and cognitive development. many regard themselves as members of a cultural minority who use sign language. they should not continue to be neglected in research on depression. the purpose of this article is to investigate depression among the deaf people based on researches results. we identified relevant studi...