Sentences with phrase «deaf children in»

They plan to start construction this fall on a library, which will include a wing for an organization that supports blind and deaf children in the community.

Moore (2010), like Olivia and Lytle (2014), found no evidence that placing deaf children in «hearing» classrooms resulted in improved academic achievement and social growth.

Jo Campion from National Deaf Children's Society said: «Although deafness is not a learning disability, government figures show that 65 % of deaf children in England fail to get five grades A * to C at GCSE, including English and maths.»

«Research by the National Deaf Children's Society into the attainment of deaf children in 2017 shows that deaf children continue to underachieve throughout their education, compared with other children,» she said.

The support provided to deaf children in schools will be cut by around # 4 million this year, a charity has warned.

The VideoBook project is reaching out to isolated deaf children in rural areas and making connections between deaf youngsters and adults.

This programme focuses on the needs of deaf children in the classroom and explores the many ways in which mainstream schools can achieve full inclu...

Two stories, one set in 1927, the other in 1977 and both involving deaf children in New York, play out (dreadfully slowly) in parallel and, surprise, surprise, they're connected.

Wonderstruck, directed by Todd Haynes, follows two deaf children in search of family connections.

«Wonderstruck» is a period piece that jumps between two deaf children in New York City, one in the 1920s and one in the 1970s.

A new project launched in South Africa by The University of Manchester and the University of the Witwatersrand hopes to raise awareness of the vulnerability of deaf children in the country, as well as altering society's attitudes towards them, by usi...

Until the government opened a school for the deaf in 1977, deaf children in Nicaragua had been socially isolated.

This campaign was called Child First (CEASD, 2012), which is the idea that general education often places a deaf child in an isolated environment, such as a mainstream program in the local public school.

Not exact matches

Though Bancroft was stellar in The Miracle Worker, winning a Tony award for best actress, it was the child prodigy Patty Duke who mesmerized audiences playing the blind and deaf Keller.

In the movie Children of a Lesser God there is a stormy love affair between Sarah, deaf and mute, and James, a teacher at a school for the deaf.

These services in Indianapolis may include the Community Mental Health Center, the family courts, the juvenile courts, the Suicide Prevention Center, child guidance centers, senior citizens programs, rehabilitative workshops such as the Goodwill Industries, schools for the blind or deaf, recreation and tutoring, housing and employment projects.

But I wonder what kind of God would heal the aches and pains of rich Americans while turning a deaf ear to the cries of starving children elsewhere in the world.

Now a department chairman at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh, he set up the first clinical bone bank in the nation, pioneered work in new types of ear operations and founded a clinic for deaf children, using his own funds to start it.

In some cases, it may be necessary to provide specific lessons about particular disabilities; for example, it may be helpful to provide typically developing children with information about how best to interact with a blind or deaf classmate.

Research on baby signing began at the end of the 1980's, when it was noticed by Joseph Garcia, an interpreter for people in the deaf community, that the hearing children of deaf parents began to communicate with their parents early through signing.

If you are considering implanting your deaf child, my recommendation is this — do not put all of your eggs in one basket.

Deaf Child in Ireland Im looking for ISL are there any on line learning facilities for ISL irish sign, my nephew is deaf, and I am trying to learn sign, but find that isl is not easily accessed...

As in the case of my deaf daughter, an open adoption is a way for a child to make the world his own.

That man, a deaf, 50 - year - old postal worker from Georgia identified in court papers as «C.M.,» paid Cook to carry anonymously donated eggs he fertilized in the hopes of having children.

Some reviews have damned the Committee for seeming to be so clinical in our questioning and therefore deaf to the children who had been affected by the charity's collapse.

The first deaf schools were established in 1977, giving many deaf children their first a chance to interact with one another.

In the summer of 2015, a team at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School reported restoring rudimentary hearing in genetically deaf mice using gene therapIn the summer of 2015, a team at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School reported restoring rudimentary hearing in genetically deaf mice using gene therapin genetically deaf mice using gene therapy.

In this form, less common than the recessive form, a single copy of the mutation causes children to gradually go deaf beginning around the age of 10 to 15 years.

Over the years, many of Al - Sayyid's deaf children have been bused to special classes for the deaf in nearby towns, where they are taught all day in spoken language — Hebrew or Arabic — accompanied by signs from Israeli Sign Language, a language utterly different from their own.

Today, the 150 or so deaf people of Al - Sayyid include the second generation, men and women in their thirties and forties; and the third generation, their children.

This performance was in stark contrast to a fourth group of deaf people who could hear as children, but lost their hearing between the ages of nine and fifteen through illness.

«We have focused efforts for children who are deaf or hard of hearing on obtaining a language level that is often considered in the normal or average range on standardized assessments,» says Jareen Meinzen - Derr, PhD, an epidemiologist at Cincinnati Children's and lead author of a nechildren who are deaf or hard of hearing on obtaining a language level that is often considered in the normal or average range on standardized assessments,» says Jareen Meinzen - Derr, PhD, an epidemiologist at Cincinnati Children's and lead author of a neChildren's and lead author of a new study.

Half of the adult hearing and half of the deaf participants in the study had learned ASL as children from their deaf parents, while the other half had grown up using English with their hearing parents.

The first deaf children were born in the 1930s.

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.

How can society claim to value the deaf, or those with other disabilities, if it requires that their children not resemble them in these respects?

We also showed our approval or disapproval of signing by smiling or frowning, by nodding or shaking our heads, and by praising or scolding the youngsters in ASL, just as human adults normally respond to the verbal behavior of [deaf] human children.

In England, deaf activists protested a 2007 bill that allowed for genetic selection only against certain diseases and disabilities, and prohibit selection for them, claiming deaf parents should have the right to select a deaf child if hearing parents have the right to select a hearing child [source: TimesOnline].

Responses from deaf children with CIs largely mirrored these effects, but the observed waveforms showed component peaks in later time windows (open vs. closed class 300 - 500ms.; nouns and verbs, 500 - 700) with somewhat reduced amplitudes.

Profoundly deaf children often exhibit significant delays in spoken language development.

Our data suggests that restoration of hearing ability in profoundly deaf children may permit the latent development of spoken language comprehension.

In April we ran a game development workshop for deaf children alongside the National Deaf Children's Society, hosted by Abertay Unichildren alongside the National Deaf Children's Society, hosted by Abertay UniChildren's Society, hosted by Abertay University.

We pass between four separate dramatic strands over the course of several days: an American couple (Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett) traveling through Morocco in an effort to expunge some unmentioned grief; a Mexican housekeeper (Adriana Barraza) watching the couple's young children in San Diego while preparing for her son's wedding; a Tunisian shepherd (Driss Roukhe) who gives his two boys a rifle in order to ward off jackals; and a deaf - mute Japanese schoolgirl (Rinko Kikuchi) struggling with the temptations of her age and a sense of lingering loss.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

In Morocco, a boy accidentally shoots an American woman, Susan (Cate Blanchett), in the neck from atop a mountain, leaving her husband, Bill (Brad Pitt), to scramble for medical assistance; back in America, Amelia (Adrianna Barraza), takes Susan and Bill's children to Mexico for a wedding but runs into trouble with border police when trying to return to San Diego; and, over in Tokyo, Chieko (Rinko Kikuchi), the deaf - mute daughter of an amateur hunter, Yasujiro (Kôji Yakusho), who sold his rifle to the Moroccan boy's father, begins to unravel after too many boys reject her advanceIn Morocco, a boy accidentally shoots an American woman, Susan (Cate Blanchett), in the neck from atop a mountain, leaving her husband, Bill (Brad Pitt), to scramble for medical assistance; back in America, Amelia (Adrianna Barraza), takes Susan and Bill's children to Mexico for a wedding but runs into trouble with border police when trying to return to San Diego; and, over in Tokyo, Chieko (Rinko Kikuchi), the deaf - mute daughter of an amateur hunter, Yasujiro (Kôji Yakusho), who sold his rifle to the Moroccan boy's father, begins to unravel after too many boys reject her advancein the neck from atop a mountain, leaving her husband, Bill (Brad Pitt), to scramble for medical assistance; back in America, Amelia (Adrianna Barraza), takes Susan and Bill's children to Mexico for a wedding but runs into trouble with border police when trying to return to San Diego; and, over in Tokyo, Chieko (Rinko Kikuchi), the deaf - mute daughter of an amateur hunter, Yasujiro (Kôji Yakusho), who sold his rifle to the Moroccan boy's father, begins to unravel after too many boys reject her advancein America, Amelia (Adrianna Barraza), takes Susan and Bill's children to Mexico for a wedding but runs into trouble with border police when trying to return to San Diego; and, over in Tokyo, Chieko (Rinko Kikuchi), the deaf - mute daughter of an amateur hunter, Yasujiro (Kôji Yakusho), who sold his rifle to the Moroccan boy's father, begins to unravel after too many boys reject her advancein Tokyo, Chieko (Rinko Kikuchi), the deaf - mute daughter of an amateur hunter, Yasujiro (Kôji Yakusho), who sold his rifle to the Moroccan boy's father, begins to unravel after too many boys reject her advances.

«Wonderstruck» follows the intertwined narratives of a pair of deaf children named Rose and Ben, living in 1927 and 1977 respectively.

Haynes tells the story of two children from two different eras: Rose (Millicent Simmons), a deaf girl living in 1927, and Ben (Oakes Fegley), a boy living in 1977.

The film alternates between two New York City - set stories of children, one a deaf girl in the 1920s and the other a newly orphaned boy fifty years later.

British winner Rachel Shenton accepted her Oscar for Best Short Film (Live Action) for The Silent Child alongside her fiancé and director Chris Overton, giving a powerful acceptance speech in sign language for the deaf community.