Deaf Communication: Sign Language and Assistive Hearing Devices: Publications and Documents
Summary
The Disabled World list of publications on deaf communication, sign language, and assistive hearing devices comprises articles, research papers, and documents covering a wide range of topics related to hearing impairment. These resources explore various aspects of deaf culture, communication methods, technological advancements in hearing aids, and educational strategies for the hearing impaired. The collection offers valuable insights for individuals with hearing loss, their families, caregivers, and professionals in the field. Topics range from studies on how hard-of-hearing individuals perceive music differently and the brain's processing of hearing in crowded environments, to insights into self-taught home-signing in deaf children and the comprehension of chimpanzee and bonobo gestures by humans. These publications provide practical information, personal experiences, and the latest developments in assistive technologies, making them a helpful resource for understanding and navigating the challenges associated with hearing impairments.Searching the Database
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| Title and Description | Ed | Publish Revised |
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| How Lip-Reading Errors Happen, Revealed by Network Science University of Kansas researchers mapped 20,000 English words to show why some are far harder to read on the lips than others. | ✓ ✓ | |
| What Is Makaton? A Guide to Visual Communication Discover how the Makaton program uses signs, symbols, and speech to support communication for children, seniors, and people with disabilities. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Gruv Button Retrofit: An Aid for Inserting Hearing Aids Gruv Button™ Retrofit is an award-winning, low-cost solution simplifying hearing aid insertion enhancing usability and reducing device abandonment. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Hard-of-hearing Prefer a Different Sound When It Comes to Music Research reveals hard-of-hearing listeners prefer louder vocals and higher frequencies in music, suggesting new approaches for inclusive audio production. | ✓ ✓ | |
| How the Brain Distinguishes Voices in a Noisy, Crowded Room Discover how the brain processes speech in noisy rooms and how this insight could lead to smarter, more selective hearing aids for better communication. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Self-taught Homesigning Deaf Children Supports Universal Language Constraints Deaf homesigners offer a unique window into whether there are universals for how people use language to talk about ideas. | ||
| Humans Still Understand Chimpanzee and Bonobo Gestures The discovery of gestures used by great apes provides evidence of intentional communication outside human language; over 80 such signals have now been identified. | ||
| Struggling to Hear at Work Visualise Training and Consultancy takes a look at the challenges employees with hearing loss face in the workplace. | ||
| New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) Awareness Week The week of the 10th to 16th May, 2021, is New Zealand Sign Language Week (NZSL), a nationwide celebration of NZSL as an official language of New Zealand. | ||
| Hank and Emma Faye to Teach Children Sign Language, Inclusivity, and Kindness Deaf host debuts a new video series, Hank and Emma Faye, on KLRN PBS to teach children sign language, inclusivity, and kindness. | ||
| ASL Native Students and Why U.S. Education Policy Fails Linguistic research shows native American Sign Language users are excluded from U.S. multilingual education protections, and why policy reform is needed. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Brain Processes Sign Language and Spoken Phrases Similarly Despite physical differences in how signed and spoken languages are produced and comprehended, neural timing and localization of planning of phrases is comparable between ASL and English. | ✓ | |
| Free Hearing Aids Project Changes Lives For Deaf The mission of the Hearing Aid Project is to give low income individuals across the United States access to hearing aids at no cost. | ||
| Brain Imaging Predicts Language Learning in Deaf Children Researchers create machine learning algorithm that uses brain scans to predict language ability in deaf children after they receive a cochlear implant. | ||
| Sign Language Comparative List of Astronomical Words List of signs represent collaboration between deaf communities, educators, and astronomers - the suggested signs are meant to engage the deaf community in scientific discussion. | ||
| Sign Language May Offer Answer to Meaning of Music Analysis concludes we may gain some insights by looking at sign language as to how we detect the meaning of music. | ||
| Human Brain Tunes Into Visual Rhythms in Sign Language Study reveals that the human brain entrains depending on the information in the signal - not on the differences between seeing and hearing. | ||
| Left vs Right-Handed Sign Language Comprehension Speed University of Birmingham study shows sign language understanding speed varies based on whether signers and viewers share left or right hand dominance. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Indian Sign Language Dictionary in India Government of India dictionary aims to bring together various sign languages used by people with speech and hearing impairments. | ||
| Certified Deaf Interpreters Now Available to InDemand Clinicians, Patients and Families InDemand Interpreting announces Certified Deaf Interpreters (CDIs) are now available on demand to health systems, clinicians, patients and families. | ||
| Study Into How Children With Cochlear Implants Learn Words Understanding how deaf infants with cochlear implants absorb information and learn novel words during interactions with parents to help improve parental guidance with language development. | ||
| U.S. DoJ Awards $500,000 to Initiate Video Based Services for Deaf Victims National Deaf Service Line will enable Deaf victims of violence and stalking to speak directly with someone fluent in their preferred mode of communication via video phone 24/7. | ||
| SRV Canada Video Relay Service for People with Hearing Disability Video relay service (VRS) service launched in Canada to empower Deaf and Hard of Hearing community with tools to communicate and provide greater independence. | ||
| Closed Captions on In-Flight Entertainment Systems Deaf and hard of hearing airline passengers will soon have closed captioned, on-demand in-flight entertainment videos. | ||
| Philadelphia Accent of American Sign Language Linguists at The University of Pennsylvania document Philadelphia accent of American Sign Language (ASL). | ||
| Smart Devices Recognize and Interpret Sign Language New technology at Texas A&M enable smart devices to recognize and interpret sign language. | ||
| Intonation and Sign Language: The Acquisition of Prosody in ASL Study finds ASL signers learn intonation in much the same way that users of spoken languages do. | ||
| Scotland: British Sign Language Bill Passed Unanimously British Sign Language (Scotland) Bill passed by all Parties in the Chamber in the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh. | ||
| List of Online Sign Language Dictionaries List of online free sign language dictionaries and resources for translating and learning sign languages including ASL, BSL and others. | ||
| Infants Can Learn to Sign and Communicate from Videos Children under two can learn communication skills from video including sign language, and perform similarly in tests when compared to babies taught by parents. | ||
| Spokane Video Relay Service Interpreting Center Sorenson Communications announce opening of Sorenson Video Relay Service (SVRS) interpreting center in Spokane, Wash.. | ||
| MotionSavvy's UNI Close to Reaching Crowd-funding Goal The UNI device works without Internet connection to help Deaf and Hard of Hearing communicate anywhere at anytime. | ||
| UNI Translates Sign Language into Audio and Speech to Text First of its kind device translates sign language into audio and spoken word to text, finally empowering the Deaf and Hard of Hearing to lead full lives and boundless careers. | ||
| Wireless Cochlear Implants Researchers design a cochlear implant that can be wirelessly recharged and uses the natural microphone of the middle ear rather than a skull-mounted sensor. | ||
| American Sign Language and Santa Claus The holiday season is upon us once again, yet there are many children who are deaf or hearing impaired who have never had a conversation with Santa Claus. | ||
| Improving Cochlear Implants with Neural Sound Modeling Computer models of neuronal sound processing are driving advances in cochlear implants, improving hearing outcomes for people with hearing loss. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Are Headphones or Earbuds Safer? Given a choice between ear buds and retro headphones the latter offers less risk of ear damage, providing they are used properly. | ||
| MyVoice Translates Sign Language to Spoken Words MyVoice is a device that reads sign language and translates its motions into audible words. | ||
| Deaf Awareness in the Workplace Just over ten years ago, Julie embraced and used her disability to help others by setting up her own training company, HearFirst, to educate service providers to meet the needs of deaf and disabled people. | ||
| Cochlear Implants: Understanding the Benefits and Risks Cochlear implants: Benefits, risks, and key considerations for severe hearing loss, including surgical implications and long-term outcomes. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Real Time Video Interpreting Services for American Sign Language LifeLinks now offers real time interpreting between more than 180 languages including American Sign Language. | ||
| Sign Language Interpreter for The Celebrity Apprentice - SignTalk SignTalk was so impressed with Matlin's inspiring message of focusing on abilities rather than disabilities that they donated $1500 to The Starkey Hearing Foundation. | ||
| Sign Language Users See Signs and Read Words Simultaneously If a sign language user is a bilingual juggler they might not respond to the connections between the signs and words in a conscious way. | ||
| ReSound iSolate Nanotech Reduces Moisture Related Repairs By 50% ReSound is now using a protective coating for hearing instruments that has resulted in a 50% reduction in moisture related repairs. | ||
| Choosing the Right Hearing Aid: A Comprehensive Guide Guide to the most important considerations you need to take into account when you are considering buying a hearing aid. | ||
| Sign Languages Help Us Understand Nature of Metaphors Various sign languages shows that certain types of metaphors are difficult to convey in sign language. | ||
| How Healthy Ears Filter Out Echoes University research reveals how healthy ears naturally filter echoes through simple neural mechanisms, offering insights for hearing aid development. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Ascent Online Hearing Test Free online hearing level test for accurate results in just 2 - 3 minutes. | ||
| First Test of Sign Language by Cell Phone Deaf and hard-of-hearing students perform first test of sign language by cell phone. | ||
| ReSound Announces Alera - The First Truly Wireless Hearing Aid with No Strings Attached ReSound Alera is the first truly wireless hearing aid without cables wires or the need to wear uncomfortable accessories. | ||
| First Sign Language Message from Space The number of languages used on the International Space Station has recently increased. | ||
| Online Baby Sign Language Classes MSHLive Brings Baby Sign Language Classes into your home via the internet. | ||
| Drug Restores Hearing Loss Study uncovers potential drug treatment for noise-induced hearing loss. | ||
| New Cochlear Implant May Further Improve Hearing New cochlear implant with more flexible wire inserted further into the inner ear could improve conventional cochlear implants. | ||
| Sign Language for Emergency Situations Sign language for emergency situations is a communication solution for those in the deaf community. | ||
| Captioning for Deaf and Hearing Impaired at Sports and Entertainment Venues Coast 2 Coast Captioning launches to offer captioning for deaf and hard-of-hearing at sports and entertainment venues. | ||
| HearUSA Rolls Out AARP Hearing Care Program Nationwide AARP Hearing Care Program from HearUSA is available to AARP members and is designed to help millions of Americans. | ||
| SoundBite Hearing System for Deaf Transmits Sound via Teeth SoundBite hearing system is a non-surgical removable device to transmit sound via teeth to help people deaf in one ear regain spatial hearing ability. | ||
| Multiple Brain Regions Wired for Language No single advanced area of the human brain that gives it language capabilities above and beyond those of any other animal species. | ||
| Accessible Phone and Video Interpretation Services Enhanced computer based accessible version of Language Line Video Interpreter Service. | ||
| Study: Cochlear Implants Equalize Quality of Life in Children Study finds children with cochlear implants report quality of life comparable to peers with normal hearing, emphasizing benefits of early implantation and sustained use. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Purple Enhances P3 Deaf and Hearing Impaired Communications Application Purple Communications text and video relay and on-site interpreting services communication suite for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. | ||
| Free Video Relay Services for Deaf and Hard of Hearing American Networks commitment to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing introduces a new VRS service to the TRS industry. | ||
| Effective Communication for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Patients Laws prohibit discrimination against persons with disabilities and requires hospitals to provide effective communication for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing. | ||
| Video-Based Lip-Reading Training for the Deaf University of East Anglia research finds machines outperform human lip-readers and that video-based training markedly improves lip-reading skills. | ✓ ✓ | |
| World of Sound Speaks up on NICE Cochlear implants for profoundly deaf children and adults latest drive to raise awareness of the procedure. | ||
| Cochlear Implants Explained: Surgery, Benefits, and Lifestyle FAQs Learn about cochlear implant surgery, candidacy, recovery, and benefits in this practical guide for individuals with hearing loss and their families. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Sign-Tube - Sign Language Video Sharing for the Deaf Sign-tube is a dedicated video sharing web site for the deaf community to share news information and events with people across the world. | ||
| Cochlear Implant Surgery Safe for Elderly Healthy elderly patients with severe to profound hearing loss can undergo a surgical procedure to receive cochlear implants. | ||
| Devices Aids the Deaf Translating Sound Waves to Vibrations Tool for deaf people who rely on lip reading and can not use or afford cochlear implants. | ||
| How Vision and Hearing Work Together in Speech Perception Peer-reviewed research shows speech perception integrates visual cues like lip-reading with auditory signals, creating inseparable multisensory processing. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Teach Your Child Sign Language Teaching your child sign language can be helpful to communicate with a child as they are growing up whether they are hearing impaired or not. | ||
| British Sign Language History, Facts and Grammar Guide British Sign Language (BSL) history from 1576 to present, including grammar structure, regional dialects, government recognition, and accessibility challenges. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Learning Sign Language American sign language is probably the most popular and widely used by the deaf and it is not hard to learn but does take a little bit of time to master. | ||
| American Sign Language: How ASL Works and How to Learn A practical overview of American Sign Language, covering its grammar, the HOLME elements, the manual alphabet, regional variation, and how to begin learning ASL. | ✓ ✓ |
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