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In contrast, the World Federation of the Deaf, in their statement on deaf people’s right to drive, said, “It is a well-known fact; deaf drivers have been involved in car accidents less than ...
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.
Some vans can be converted into wheelchair accessible vans for mobility impaired people. [4] The following vehicles may be used in yards or in historic city centres: Aixam Mega [5] Alke' ATX [6] Graf Carello Transporter [7] Tasso Domino [8]
At five months of age, O'Neil contracted simultaneous childhood diseases, [nb 1] [15] losing her hearing. After her deafness became apparent at the age of two, her mother taught her lip-reading and speech, eventually becoming a speech therapist and co-founding a school for students with hearing impairment in Wichita Falls, Texas .
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 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This is a list of current and defunct Spanish automobiles, listed by ... (Sports Cars ) Tramontana (Sports ...
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.