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Teresa de Cartagena, Spanish conversa nun and mystic author of the 15th century who became deaf in later life. The first mystic author in Spanish. Laurent Clerc (1785–1869), student and teacher (1798–1816) at the Paris Deaf school of the Abbé de l'Épée; accompanied Thomas Gallaudet to America to teach deaf children.
Either hearing loss is a significant risk factor for driving and should prevent or limit people from driving, or it’s not a risk factor and deaf drivers shouldn’t face any additional hurdles ...
Poliakoff was a renowned inventor of electrical devices [7] whose many inventions included a selenium photograph telephony shutter in 1899 (US patent 700,083, 13 May 1902), [8] [9] which, along with electrical sound amplification, allowed for synchronized audio on film, the radio volume control, a magnetic induction loop that allowed hearing ...
Greek orator Demosthenes practicing oratory at the beach with pebbles in his mouth. Stuttering (alalia syllabaris), also known as stammering (alalia literalis or anarthria literalis), is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or phrases, and involuntary silent pauses or blocks during which the person ...
This is a list of current and defunct Spanish automobiles, listed by manufacturer. Current companies ... (Concept Cars) SEAT (Only major Spain automobile company) 124 ...
Cecil is hearing impaired and uses hearing aids. A Star Is Born: 2018: The American romantic drama film about two musicians in love features one of them having noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus. [96] Stille Liebe: 2001: The Swiss film features a signing deaf nun who travels from her German convent to the city to work at a center for the ...
The elderly and persons with disabilities (such as persons who are hearing-impaired, vision-impaired, mobility-impaired, or cognitively-impaired) are potential beneficiaries of adoption of autonomous vehicles; however, the extent to which such populations gain greater mobility from the adoption of AV technology depends on the specific designs ...
NOVA explores the different means by which hearing-impaired people have learned to penetrate the world of the hearing by visiting with Kitty O'Neil—a woman record-holding speed car racer; Frances Parsons, an advocate of hearing-impaired persons' rights; and workers at Silent Industries—a factory in Los Angeles founded by a deaf man.