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Deaf children with one or more co-occurring disabilities could also be referred to as hearing loss plus additional disabilities or Deafness and Diversity (D.A.D.). About 40–50% of deaf children experience one or more additional disabilities, [2] with learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and visual ...
The International Symbol for Deafness is used to identify facilities with hearing augmentation services, especially assistive listening devices. [4]In a medical context, deafness is defined as a degree of hearing difference such that a person is unable to understand speech, even in the presence of amplification. [1]
According to Baker and Padden, it includes any person or persons who "identifies him/herself as a member of the Deaf community, and other members accept that person as a part of the community," [131] an example being children of deaf adults with normal hearing ability. It includes the set of social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions ...
[2] Deaf culture has an older history, having been described in 1965, [3] and Deaf culture can be connected to the larger disability culture, both due to deafness being viewed by others as a disability, and many deaf people being both Deaf and disabled in other ways, which is known as being Deaf plus.
C-Print is a speech-to-text (captioning) technology and service developed at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a college of Rochester Institute of Technology. The system is successfully being used to provide communication access to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing in many programs around the country.
The company said that deaf drivers posed a safety problem because of their inability to hear other vehicles, but a federal appeals court determined that there wasn’t evidence to back up that ...
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Rather than embrace the view that deafness is a "personal tragedy", the Deaf community contrasts the medical model of deafness by seeing all aspects of the deaf experience as positive. The birth of a deaf child is seen as a cause for celebration. [3] Deaf people point to the perspective on child rearing they share with hearing people.