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Binaural interaction in hearing impaired listeners
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1983.
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Nurturing Concept Attainment With Hearing Impaired Children
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Personality style and newly amplified hearing-impaired adults
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Manual laterality in hearing impaired and hearing children
… preference and skilled hand movement between hearing impaired and non-hearing impaired children. The subjects were 78 hearing impaired (44 males, 34 females) and 68 normal hearing children (24 males, 44 females). Hand preference was measured through performance of ten tasks requiring hand use. …
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Educators' attitudes towards the inclusion of hearing impaired learners
… educators' attitudes concerning the inclusion of hearing impaired learners in mainstream classrooms As an introduction to the study the attitudes of educators towards inclusion were reviewed by means of a study of available and relevant literature. Educators are the people who make learning …
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The Educational Implications of Cocaine-Exposed Hearing-Impaired Children
… implications cocaine exposure in utero has on a hearing-impaired child. A 3 and 1/2 year old child (D.A.) identified as both cocaine-exposed and hearing-impaired served as the subject for this study. Her behaviors were compared with characteristics commonly-reported in cocaine-exposed children. …
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Assessment of the Symbolic Play of Hearing-Impaired Preschoolers
… and its validity when used to assess the play of hearing-impaired children. Results from this investigation implied that overall, this system was able to be used with hearing-impaired children. Reported findings indicated that following modeled sessions of symbolic play behaviors, each child's …
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An investigation of social adjustment in hearing impaired children
… study was to compare the social adjustment of hearing impaired students educated in a residential school, with hearing Impaired students educated in their home communities, attending partially segregated classes. The Bristol Social Adjustment Guides were administered to test for social …
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Techniques for understanding hearing-impaired perception of consonant cues
… and the systematic behavior of normal and hearing-impaired listeners. All stimuli were presented as isolated consonant-vowel tokens, using the vowel /A/. Use of low-context stimuli, such as consonants, aids in minimizing the influence of some variable cognitive abilities (e.g., use of …
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Binaural spectral selectivity in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners
Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, die Interaktion zwischen der Frequenzselektivität des menschlichen Gehörs und binauralem Hören durch psychoakustische Verdeckungsexperimente zu untersuchen. Im allgemeinen wird ein diotischer Verdecker benutzt, wohingegen das Signal entweder ebenfalls diotisch ist …
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High frequency sonar components of normal and hearing impaired dolphins
… Bottlenose Dolphin, a Bottlenose Dolphin with a hearing impairment and a Beluga Whale, was analyzed. It was observed that the animals reduced the interval between clicks when they located a target. Correlating the signal data to the video data made this observation possible. It appeared the …
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The inclusion of Maltese hearing : impaired children in the mainstream
… of this study was to look into how children with hearing-impairment are included in the mainstream. This study took into consideration parents', teachers', learning support assistants', teachers' of the deaf and sign language interpreter's views about dealing with a hearing- impaired child at …
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Educators' perceptions of inclusive education for the hearing impaired child
… concerning inclusive education for learners with hearing impairments. The orientation to the study is followed by a chapter to explain the design of the research, substantiating the choice of format, methods of data collection and analysis. A qualitative research method was chosen on account of …
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A Hearing-Impaired Child in the Mainstream: a Case Study
… was to demonstrate that the mainstreaming of a hearing impaired child could be successfully achieved by determination of the current academic and social status of the child through a case study approach followed by research into current practices in teaching hearing impaired children and …
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Frequency-Discrimination Performance of Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Listeners
… data were obtained for 12 normal-hearing and six hearing-impaired subjects with a 3-interval, 2-cued, yes/no task for a variety of signals. These signals included pure tones, fixed-bandwidth (400 Hz) narrow-band noise and ratio-bandwidth (20%) narrow-band noise. Analyses included …
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Hemispheric specialization in hearing impaired children who use cued speech
… as a left hemispheric function for most normal hearing right-handed subjects. Hearing impaired subjects, however, do not demonstrate a predictable hemispheric specialization for language processing. This research used a matched letter pair stimulus presented tachistoscopically to four male and …
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Modeling the career maturity of hearing and hearing-impaired adolescents
… the career development process was the same for hearing-impaired and normally-hearing adolescents. Subjects included 71 deaf and 318 nonhandicapped adolescents and their parents. A literature-based causal model of career maturity (Model 1) was developed that was designed to explain career …
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Classification of tinnitus versus non-tinnitus hearing impaired subject fMRI data
… the case of this study, tinnitus or non-tinnitus hearing impaired), is built based on feature cluster label data from each of a subset of subjects from both classes. This classifier is then tested on the remaining subject fMRI data to determine the efficacy of the clustering + classifier system …
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Methods for robust characterization of consonant perception in hearing-impaired listeners
Individuals with {\it sensorineural hearing loss} (SNHL) are prescribed hearing aids and/or a cochlear implant, based on their pure-tone threshold and speech perception scores. Although these assistive listening devices do help these individuals communicate in quiet surroundings, many still have …
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