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Showing 1 to 20 of 451 for “"deaf"”.
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Deaf Bilingual Education: A Comparison Of The Academic Performance Of Deaf Children Of Deaf Parents And Deaf Children Of Hearing Parents
… examined the impact of the bilingual/bicultural deaf educational (ASL/English) philosophy on academic performance. The academic performance of deaf and hard-of-hearing students (N-182) was made available from the Indiana School for the Deaf (ISD) which has adopted a bilingual philosophy. It has …
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Black Deaf or Deaf Black? An investigation of identity in the British Black Deaf community
… of the life experiences of a group of Black1 Deaf2 individuals and the influences affecting their identity development. It also investigates the different attitudes to deafness within the Black hearing community. A quantitative survey was conducted with 57 respondents to explore attitudes to …
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Deaf education teachers' perceptions of issues in deaf education in Botswana
Access to abstract permanently restricted to Ball State community only
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Personal experience narratives in the deaf community: Identifying deaf-world typicality
The Deaf community in Britain comprises people who use British Sign Language (BSL) to communicate and who share similar lived experiences. The storied lives of Deaf people, told in the community through personal experience narratives, provide insight into the issues that arise from being Deaf in a …
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Are the deaf stigmatized?
1 PDF file (ix, 74 pages)
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Becoming Deaf in the Posthuman Era: Posthumanism, Arts-Based Research and Deaf Education
… posthumanism as a possible paradigm shift for deaf education which is presently mired in binarized thinking concerning language choices. The ontologies, epistemologies, research methodologies and pedagogy associated with posthumanism propose a radical shift in thinking about what it means to …
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Deaf Teachers' Practices: Supporting and Enabling Preschool Deaf Children's Development of a Participative Identity
… possibly the first fully accessible partner as a deaf child engages in a community of practice: the deaf preschool teacher. I utilize classroom observations and interviews of three deaf teachers in which the participants were encouraged to reflect on their observed classroom practices. I found …
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Citizenship and the deaf community
… to apply the notion to the problems faced by Deaf communities. The intention of this study is to consider whether such a concept might be a useful framework for addressing such problems and issues. The research literature on citizenship tends to be theoretical and philosophical, with little …
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Imaginative writing of deaf children
… explores the issue of imaginative writing of deaf children. Thirty deaf children aged 9-11 years were recruited form Hearing Impaired Units and mainstream schools. Thirty hearing children were matched on academic performance (according to teachers) and chronological age and recruited from the …
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A school for deaf children
Thesis (M.Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1955.
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Negotiating the Gray Areas of Ethical Decision Making: Deaf Therapists Working in the Deaf Community
<p>Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing psychologists, who provide services to the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community, face unique dilemmas when dealing with overlapping relationships. Similar to psychologists from other small or rural communities, dual relationships are generally unavoidable. The ethical …
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DEAF SPACE AND THE VISUAL WORLD - BUILDINGS THAT SPEAK: AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF
Deaf Space and the Visual World is a set of principles providing understanding of the perceptions and special needs of the deaf. More frequently deaf and hard of hearing school children are attending mainstream public schools, in which deaf-friendly design is not well-understood or implemented. …
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Deaf people and career advice: Applying structuration theory to encounters between deaf and hearing people
The research concerns communication between deaf people and hearing advisers in career or job seeking interviews. Issues of disability, emancipatory research and methods used in deaf research are explored together with the medical and social models of disability and the complexity of …
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The Lived Experience of Deaf Education: How Macro Events Impact the Deaf Community and the Self
… looks to understand the lived experience of deaf education. Educational leaders seek out to improve the conditions of teaching and learning, however it seems challenging for deaf administrators to see through transformative changes within deaf education. This study seeks to understand why …
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Deaf ways of writing narratives : translation vs. direct composition in deaf groups with different bilingual skills
… the writing process in narratives by Greek deaf students in two different conditions: a) translation from Greek Sign Language into written Greek from video stimuli and b) direct composition in written Greek from picture stimuli. Following language assessments, the deaf students were divided …
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Cochlear implantation in the prelingually deaf
Contains fulltext : 140087.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Retinal function in deaf-blind syndromes
… and habituation to the visual handicap in deaf-blind syndromes. In combination with genetic screening, ff-ERG constitutes a valuable diagnostic tool.
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The emergence of a deaf economy
Thesis: S.B. in Science in Humanities and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2014.
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