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Communication</category><description>Discover how the brain processes speech in noisy rooms and how this insight could lead to smarter, more selective hearing aids for better communication</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/crowd-speech.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/crowd-speech.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2023 15:54:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Self-taught Homesigning Deaf Children Supports Universal Language Constraints</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>Deaf homesigners offer a unique window into whether there are universals for how people use language to talk about ideas</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/homesigning.php</link><guid 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Communication</category><description>Visualise Training and Consultancy takes a look at the challenges employees with hearing loss face in the workplace</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/hearing-difficulty.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/hearing-difficulty.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2022 11:30:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) Awareness Week</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>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</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/nzsl.php</link><guid 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language and English language learners, new linguistic research supports the need for policy changes</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/ded.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/ded.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2018 15:16:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Brain Processes Sign Language and Spoken Phrases Similarly</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>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</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/neural-process.php</link><guid 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algorithm that uses brain scans to predict language ability in deaf children after they receive a cochlear implant</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/predicts.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/predicts.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:28:18 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Sign Language Comparative List of Astronomical Words</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>List of signs represent collaboration between deaf communities, educators, and astronomers - the suggested signs are meant to engage the deaf community in scientific discussion</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/iau.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/iau.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2017 08:51:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Sign Language May Offer Answer to Meaning of Music</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>Analysis concludes we may gain some insights by looking at sign language as to how we detect the meaning of music</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/music-meaning.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/music-meaning.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2017 12:40:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Human Brain Tunes Into Visual Rhythms in Sign Language</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>Study reveals that the human brain entrains depending on the information in the signal - not on the differences between seeing and 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Sign Language Dictionary in India</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>Government of India dictionary aims to bring together various sign languages used by people with speech and hearing impairments</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/isl.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/isl.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:20:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Certified Deaf Interpreters Now Available to InDemand Clinicians, Patients and Families</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>InDemand Interpreting announces Certified Deaf Interpreters (CDIs) are now available on demand to health systems, clinicians, patients and families</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/interpreters.php</link><guid 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Victims</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>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</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/doj-deaf.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/doj-deaf.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2017 10:15:59 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>SRV Canada Video Relay Service for People with Hearing Disability</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>Video relay service (VRS) service launched in Canada to empower Deaf and Hard of Hearing community with tools to communicate and provide greater independence</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/vrs-canada.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/vrs-canada.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2016 08:52:01 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Closed Captions on In-Flight Entertainment Systems</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>Deaf and hard of hearing airline passengers will soon have closed captioned, on-demand in-flight entertainment videos</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/cc.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/cc.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2016 16:53:20 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Philadelphia Accent of American Sign Language</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>Linguists at The University of Pennsylvania document Philadelphia accent of American Sign Language (ASL)</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/asl-accents.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/asl-accents.php</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2015 07:19:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Smart Devices Recognize and Interpret Sign Language</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>New technology at Texas A&amp;M enable smart devices to recognize and interpret sign language</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/smart-sign.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/smart-sign.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2015 13:51:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Intonation and Sign Language: The Acquisition of Prosody in ASL</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>Study finds ASL signers learn intonation in much the same way that users of spoken languages do</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/intonation.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/intonation.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2015 13:31:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Scotland: British Sign Language Bill Passed Unanimously</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>British Sign Language (Scotland) Bill passed by all Parties in the Chamber in the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/scot-sign.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/scot-sign.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2015 11:44:43 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>List of Online Sign Language Dictionaries</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>List of online free sign language dictionaries and resources for translating and learning sign languages including ASL, BSL and others</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/sldl.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/sldl.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2015 10:52:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Infants Can Learn to Sign and Communicate from Videos</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>Children under two can learn communication skills from video including sign language, and perform similarly in tests when compared to babies taught by parents</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/infant.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/infant.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2015 16:57:34 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Spokane Video Relay Service Interpreting Center</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>Sorenson Communications announce opening of Sorenson Video Relay Service (SVRS) interpreting center in Spokane, Wash.</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/spokane.php</link><guid 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into audio and spoken word to text, finally empowering the Deaf and Hard of Hearing to lead full lives and boundless careers</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/uni.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/uni.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:37:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Wireless Cochlear Implants</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>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</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/wireless.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/wireless.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:59:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>American Sign Language and Santa Claus</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>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</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/santa.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/santa.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2013 11:08:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Improving Cochlear Implants with Neural Sound Modeling</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>Computer models of neuronal sound processing are driving advances in cochlear implants, improving hearing outcomes for people with hearing loss</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/tum.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/tum.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 08:27:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Are Headphones or Earbuds Safer?</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>Given a choice between ear buds and retro headphones the latter offers less risk of ear damage, providing they are used properly</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/earphones.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/earphones.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 08:58:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>MyVoice Translates Sign Language to Spoken Words</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>MyVoice is a device that reads sign language and translates its motions into audible words</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/myvoice.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/myvoice.php</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 06:34:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Deaf Awareness in the Workplace</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>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</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/workplace-deafness.php</link><guid 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Communication</category><description>LifeLinks now offers real time interpreting between more than 180 languages including American Sign Language</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/interpreting-service.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/interpreting-service.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 15:13:04 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Sign Language Interpreter for The Celebrity Apprentice - SignTalk</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>SignTalk was so impressed with Matlin&#39;s inspiring message of focusing on abilities rather than disabilities that they donated $1500 to The Starkey Hearing Foundation</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/interpreter.php</link><guid 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Communication</category><description>ReSound is now using a protective coating for hearing instruments that has resulted in a 50% reduction in moisture related repairs</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/resound-isolate.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/resound-isolate.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:07:04 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Choosing the Right Hearing Aid: A Comprehensive Guide</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>Guide to the most important considerations you need to take into account when you are considering buying a hearing aid</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/types-hearing-aids.php</link><guid 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through simple neural mechanisms, offering insights for hearing aid development</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/healthy-ears.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/healthy-ears.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:38:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Ascent Online Hearing Test</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>Free online hearing level test for accurate results in just 2 - 3 minutes</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/ascent-hearing-test.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/ascent-hearing-test.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:49:15 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>First Test of Sign Language by Cell Phone</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>Deaf and hard-of-hearing students perform first test of sign language by cell phone</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/sign-language-phone.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/sign-language-phone.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:13:12 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>ReSound Announces Alera - The First Truly Wireless Hearing Aid with No Strings Attached</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>ReSound Alera is the first truly wireless hearing aid without cables wires or the need to wear uncomfortable accessories</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/resound-hearing-aids.php</link><guid 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Communication</category><description>New cochlear implant with more flexible wire inserted further into the inner ear could improve conventional cochlear implants</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/cochlear-hearing.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/cochlear-hearing.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:29:59 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Sign Language for Emergency Situations</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>Sign language for emergency situations is a communication solution for those in the deaf community</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/sign-emergency.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/sign-emergency.php</guid><pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 11:05:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Captioning for Deaf and Hearing Impaired at Sports and Entertainment Venues</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>Coast 2 Coast Captioning launches to offer captioning for deaf and hard-of-hearing at sports and entertainment venues</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/captioning-sports.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/captioning-sports.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 16:10:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>HearUSA Rolls Out AARP Hearing Care Program Nationwide</title><category>Deaf Communication</category><description>AARP Hearing Care Program from HearUSA is available to AARP members and is designed to help millions of 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