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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 ...
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.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This is a list of current and defunct Spanish automobiles, listed by ... (Sports Cars ) Tramontana (Sports ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... This is a list of notable people that have been diagnosed with tinnitus. Ryan Adams [1]
For patients with hearing loss, phone conversations aren't just challenging; they can feel like trying to understand a foreign language. As an audiologist, I’ve worked with these patients firsthand.
Before this time, people with hearing loss were categorized as to be "suffering" from the disease of deafness, not under any socio-cultural categories like they are today. Many believed that the deaf were inferior [14] and should learn to speak and become "normal." Children who were born deaf prior to the 18th century were unable to acquire ...