Sentences with phrase «of deaf people»

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.

This is because it does not address a number of issues on disability such as, specific rights of deaf people, justice, health, employment and a number of other fundamental freedoms.

The example is the children of deaf people who use «real» sign language, who learn this instead of spoken language.

To capture the motions of deaf people, the scientists make use of affordable cameras and sensors that are typically used by teenagers for computer games.

Students have full time individual support from learning mentors who are all trained to support the learning needs of deaf people.

A community of deaf people in Nicaragua, who only developed a sign language in the 1970s, provided Pyers's team with a unique opportunity to compare two sets of people with very different levels of language ability: the first generation of signers, who created the rudimentary sign language, and adolescent signers who had worked out a more complex system of signs.

«E-mail technology, pager and texting technology, and now video technology, are starting to reach the point where they can be manufactured in forms that do meet these culturally mediating requirements within the culture of deaf people — and yes, the impact has been felt,» Humphries says, although he acknowledges that iPhones are not cheap and these new tools might not meet every person's needs.

Hundreds of deaf people are being healed, according to evangelist Heidi Baker.

I noticed a large section of deaf people, who were able to sing in their hearts because the words were being signed to them by a corps of enthusiastic men and women.

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

The two scientists have studied how the brain of a deaf person manages to represent the sound of the spoken word and its capacity of re-using these representations after a cochlear implant.

COCHLEAR implants have helped thousands of deaf people around the world hear for the first time.

Page concludes, «I can see no reason to justify the exclusion of deaf people from scientific laboratories.»

«Given that 70 % of deaf people currently are underemployed or unemployed, this increased access to pre-employment skills and training in American Sign Language is a critical step to their success.

Theron is also obviously having fun, but Elaine makes some really crass jokes at the expense of deaf people and the mentally challenged, eliciting gasps from the audience.

It also found that while 85 per cent of deaf people answering the survey wanted to learn more sign language, there was even more interest among those with hearing: 94 per cent were interested in increasing their skills.

Hearing Dogs for Deaf People is a national charity that breeds and trains dogs to change the lives of deaf people.

The social conditioning of deaf people constitutes Christine Sun Kim's inquiry into the anthropogenic definitions of sound.

This includes a sketch of the history and culture of deaf people and establishes beyond any doubt, through a careful description of its morphology and syntax, the credentials of BSL as a natural language worthy of detailed academic study — a theme which continues into the heart of the work, the dictionary.

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