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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 ...
On 6 December 1976, in southeastern Oregon's Alvord Desert, O'Neil set the land-speed record for female drivers. She piloted a $350,000 (equivalent to $1.9 million in 2023) hydrogen peroxide powered three-wheeled rocket car built by Bill Fredrick called the "SMI Motivator". It reached an average speed of 512.710 mph (825.127 km/h), with a peak ...
Hearing aids are electroacoustic devices which are designed to amplify sound for the wearer, usually with the aim of making speech more intelligible, and to correct impaired hearing as measured by audiometry. Some technologies also worth noting are cochlear implants and bone-anchored hearing aids (BAHA), which serve a similar purpose to hearing ...
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 ...
Marcus James Titus (born May 20, 1986) is a deaf American swimmer who has made it as far as eighth place in the 2012 Olympic Trials.Titus won a state championship at Flowing Wells High School and is a 12-time-All-American at Arizona, he was a major figure in the US’s 2008 NCAA championship team, and he was previously a coach for the 2013 Deaflympic team.
State Department of Education (SDE) referral: The local school system can refer a deaf/hard-of-hearing student to LSD through the SDE. The local school system can refer a deaf/hard-of-hearing student to LSD for an evaluation by the LSD Statewide Assessment Center for the Hearing Impaired (SWAC-HI) to determine levels of performance and program ...