Sentences with phrase «many deaf children»

A critic that shares your humanism once visited a school of deaf children.

The importance of auditory experiences for the interpretation of reality is proven through observation of deaf children... A world without sound is a dead world; when sound is eliminated from our experience, it becomes clear how inadequate and ambiguous is the visual experience if not accompanied by auditory interpretation... Vision alone without acoustic perceptions does not provide understanding.

A total of 127 community projects that includes domestic violence support groups and music therapy programs for deaf children, will share the fund, Fairfax Media reported.

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.

You can also get books for partially sighted, blind and even the deaf children.

«Together we will advance our mission by empowering families with deaf children to reach their highest potential.»

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

Nobody would force a tone - deaf child to take singing lessons.

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

But younger pupils — who had interacted with other deaf children from an early age — used a more complex series of signs.

She worked with deaf children.

Such results also explain why it is so important to be able to equip congenitally - deaf children during their first few months, i.e. before the onset of the reorganisation of the visual and auditory brain circuits, a process which may compromise their ability to access orality.

But all of the deaf children carried mutations on both copies of the gene.

Mayberry's work — which has since been confirmed elsewhere — has important implications for deaf children.

Diane Brentari (University of Chicago), Joshua Falk (University of Chicago), and George Wolford (Purdue University) studied how deaf children (ages 5 - 8) who were native learners of ASL used intonational features like «sign lengthening» and facial cues as they acquired ASL.

Researchers studied how deaf children (ages 5 - 8) who were native learners of ASL used intonational features like «sign lengthening» and facial cues as they acquired ASL.

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.

The signing of the deaf children, Al - Sayyid's third generation, is already permeated with ISL.

I had been involved for about a year with a school for deaf children and thought that trying to reach special needs audiences, and being able to prove that I already had links with the deaf community, would give my application a good chance of success.

The 30 - minute video is soon to be distributed free of charge by the Post Office to all the schools for deaf children around the UK.

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

As recently as the 1970s, deaf children, myself included, had their hands slapped and tied behind their backs as they struggled with the Herculean task of reproducing the sounds of, for them, an unnatural language that they had never heard.

But soon other families started having deaf children too.

Hearing teachers have little understanding of the broad impact of deafness and how to meet the needs of deaf children.

For example, the communication barriers that deaf children face may ultimately lead to frustration, isolation, and withdrawal, which can seriously impact their school performance, mental health, and sense of belonging.

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.

It does not follow that deliberately choosing a deaf child through embryonic selection is permissible.

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].

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...

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.

While the use of cochlear implants (CIs) help many deaf children achieve normative language development, the neurocognitive factors that underlie success are poorly understood.

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 University.

Get Creative Collection is a compilation of endless runner games, built by a group of deaf children during a one - day game development workshop.

Recently Guerilla Tea teamed up with the National Deaf Children's Society and Abertay University to run a game development workshop with a group of deaf children.

But her marriage with Beatty is not good, and we feel her pain when he doesn't even try to communicate with his deaf children.

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.

We spend time with an assortment of established and aspiring singers, including a trio comprised of a feuding married couple (Allan Nichols and Cristina Raines) and their promiscuous third wheel (Keith Carradine), a beloved songstress (Ronee Blakley) who collapses and is unwell, a sexy tone - deaf newcomer (Gwen Welles) who's asked to strip to make up for her lack of talent, a white leader (Lily Tomlin) of a black church choir with two deaf children, her organizer husband (Ned Beatty), and a corny, successful patriot (Gibson).

When we learn that he hasn't even taken the time to learn sign language so he can talk with his deaf children, you feel pity into of sorrow for him.

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

Here's what's new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video - on - demand, and other streaming services... Wonderstruck (2017, PG), a lovely and touching film from Todd Haynes about two deaf children separated by decades but connected by fate (and New York's Museum of Natural History), got lost -LSB-...]

Luckily for him, he encounters a hostage situation at an Old West themed attraction, a baby that was born with a third leg, a hurricane approaching Texas during the state's tornado season and the cicada cycle (I wish I were kidding), and, when he asks for some real tragedy, the movie cuts to a group of deaf children approaching a carnival.

The movie has a mean sense of humor that undermines its attempts at a feel - good romantic comedy (What other explanation is there for the cut from the mention of tragedy to a group of deaf children?).

It's a staunch look at a young boy's experience in a boarding school for deaf children that operates as an institutionalized system of organized crime.

Both stories contain deaf children who, despite being audibly - impaired, run away from their bleak small towns to NYC where they're left to their own devices in the overwhelmingly big apple.

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

An especially memorable theme links two deaf children through two different time periods as they venture through New York City, circa a silent black and white 1927 and a colorful 1977 — joining them with a true sense of melodic wonder that speaks for the music of imagination and exploration, especially when sound itself can't be heard.