The vestibular function and static balance skills of 34 children who had sensorineural deafness, ranged in age from 5 to 9 years, and attended the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf were compared with normative data. The purpose of the investigation was to describe the characteristics of vestibular function and static balance skill in deaf children who had no other known handicaps. We exp...

Using a prospective, longitudinal study design, this paper addresses the impact of genetic counseling and testing for deafness on deaf adults and the Deaf community. This study specifically evaluated the effect of genetic counseling and Connexin-26 and Connexin-30 genetic test results on participants' deaf identity and understanding of their genetic test results. Connexin-26 and Connexin-30 gen...

1.1 The following references and annotations are collected to facilitate the emergence of Hittite Deaf people from the 13th Century BC, in the modern literature of Deaf History. The present work is tentative, and welcomes critical comment and corrections. (A more formal article in English is likely to be published later). The work is reaching a critical stage of development, as it becomes clear...

To provide accurate diagnostic screening of deaf people who use signed communication, cognitive tests must be devised in signed languages with normative deaf samples. This article describes the development of the first screening test for the detection of cognitive impairment and dementia in deaf signers. The British Sign Language Cognitive Screening Test uses standardized video administration t...

In a qualitative review of interpretation and Deaf studies programs in Canada, some educators described their experiences teaching Deaf students. Most of the Deaf instructors had worked as Deaf interpreters (DIs). Given the challenges they faced as a DI, and in light of research concerning interpreters from other minority cultures, the conceptualization of their subjectivity should consider the...

A challenge facing Black Ethnic Minority (BME) deaf people is the lack of cultural sensitivity or understanding towards their heritage and their Deaf identity. This raises several issues and demonstrates that groups do not really fully understand the profile of a BME deaf person and their background. This leads to many services being unable to fully accommodate the needs of BME deaf people. Thi...

This study had two aims: first, to investigate the attitudes of deaf and hearing people towards deafness; and, secondly, to study the difference between how deaf people perceive the attitudes of hearing people towards deafness, and how hearing people perceive the attitudes of deaf people towards deafness. The results showed that the deaf had more negative attitudes towards deafness than the hea...

This article examines the relationship between cultural affiliation and deaf adults' motivations for genetic testing for deafness in the first prospective, longitudinal study to examine the impact of genetic counseling and genetic testing on deaf adults and the deaf community. Participants (n = 256), classified as affiliating with hearing, Deaf, or both communities, rated interest in testing fo...

A Teldem provides text-based telephony services to the deaf. Despite an array of text-based communications mechanisms on the web, the Teldem is the only means of synchronous telecommunication available to a deaf person. We examine a human-assisted relay that provides a bridge between the deaf and the hearing, and then propose several additional bridges. These bridges take advantage of both stan...

Explanations of cognitive functioning in the deaf have been marred by the use of inappropriate measurement instruments, comparisons based' on the average performance of deaf and hearing subjer.s, and failure to consider developmental changes across age levels. In the present study the Snijders-Oomen Nonverbal Intelligence Test (SON) was adminis.ered to 251 deaf children and 101 hearing children...