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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 ...
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 ...
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.
To qualify for this designation, applicants must demonstrate a hearing loss with a pure tone average of 500, 1,000 and 2,000 hertz of 41 decibels or greater in the better ear, whether aided or ...
The term 'deaf' or 'hard of hearing' is commonly used to refer to individuals with partial deafness or hearing loss. People who identify as hard of hearing or small 'd' deaf are generally not members of the Deaf sign language-using community. This distinction is useful in academic settings where precision is needed.
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.