The IDEA officially defines the term as «concomitant [simultaneous] hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational needs that they can not be accommodated in special education programs solely for
children with deafness or children with blindness.»
Children with deafness or hard - to - hear conditions as well as ones that have problems with spoken language may need AT.
Not exact matches
In Canada, doctors at the Hospital for Sick
Children in Toronto reported in March this year that 13 out of 125 pregnant women exposed to workplace solvents gave birth to children with major congenital malformations, such as spina bifida or d
Children in Toronto reported in March this year that 13 out of 125 pregnant women exposed to workplace solvents gave birth to
children with major congenital malformations, such as spina bifida or d
children with major congenital malformations, such as spina bifida or
deafness.
These include
children whose mothers suffered from infections such as mumps during pregnancy, those deprived of oxygen during labour, or infants born into families
with a history of
deafness.
From a statistical analysis of data on 19th - century American families
with deaf
children, he estimated that in those days, Cx 26 mutations accounted for only 17 % of inherited
deafness.
Nance reasoned that intermarriage might explain the increase in Cx 26
deafness, because two parents
with this mutation will always have deaf
children.
It's the kind of loss of hearing that generally has a tendency to happen as one ages, or
with children born having congenital
deafness.
«
Deafness» means a hearing impairment that is so severe that the
child is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing,
with or without amplification, that adversely affects the
child's educational performance.
Families who are coping
with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, multiple disabilities; families who have transgender
children; families whose
children are prodigies or who became criminals - each get their own chapter.
The
children of two deaf parents
with two different recessive
deafness can be unaffected but carry both genes.
Dogs who are elderly, dogs who have chronic pain and dogs
with sensory deficits, such as
deafness or blindness, may have trouble adjusting to life
with a
child because of the unpredictability and chaos that
children inevitably bring.
A study exploring paternal —
child characteristics indicated that the father's resistance to accepting
deafness was associated
with poor language outcomes in the deaf
child (Hadadian & Rose, 1991).