Sentences with phrase «groups of deaf people»

Jennie Pyers at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and colleagues studied two groups of deaf people who learned to communicate using Nicaraguan sign language.

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.

Not exact matches

Whereas the researchers were expecting that the subjects would be slower and less accurate that those in a control group of people without any hearing difficulty, to their surprise they found that certain deaf people completed the task quicker and more accurately than their normo - hearing counterparts.

Because deaf people lack access to such potentially life - saving cues, a group of researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon built a pair of glasses which allows the wearer to «see» when a loud sound is made, and gives an indication of where it came from.

IN TWO months» time, a group of profoundly deaf people could be able to hear again, thanks to the world's first gene therapy trial for deafness.

Deafs is one of a group of affiliated dating sites serving people with diverse and varied interests.

Synopsis: An accident connects four groups of people on three different continents: two young Moroccan goatherds, a vacationing American couple (Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett), a deaf Japanese teen and her father, and a Mexican nanny who takes her young charges across a border without parental permission.

On 18 March the Anne Frank House was also specially opened in the evening, this time for a group of deaf and hearing - impaired people.

As part of its investigation, two testers for the Fair Housing Council («Housing Group») called the Company posing as deaf individuals, and in both instances the individuals were allegedly told the Company didn't assist disabled individuals and were treated rudely by the person answering the phone.