resilience and handicap in deaf

Resilience and Handicap in Deaf.

In positive psychology literature, resilience is among indexes that help one to adjust with negative situation and have better function (1, 2). Resilience is shaped in family context and could be fostered (3-7). Better parenting styles have constructive effects on resilience skill (1, 5). This index has been studied in various populations whom have experienced hard psychological situation (8). ...

Chronic Handicap in Childhood

CHRONiC handicap is a major challenge to present*day paediatrics in Britain. The change in the paittern of child disease in western countries is well known-the decline in mortality of both infants and children: the virtuall eradication of serious acute infections such as tuberculosis, diphtheria and poliomyelitis: the diminishing incidence of acute rheumatism: and the control of ithe common inf...

Porphyrias and Mental Handicap

substances, the main one of which he called haematoporphyrin (porphurouspurple). Three years later Schultz published the first case of porphyria. In 1911 Glinther classified the diseases of porphyrin metabolism from published cases, including his own. Since then, numerous papers have been published and various classifications put forward. The latest classification is that from Brodie et al,2 in...

Symptom and Handicap

chemical cerebral disturbance, but admits that the nature of the actual process is unknown. This remains true today, despite extensive research and several interesting discoveries of biochemical irregularities in schizophrenia. Bleuler further maintains that primary symptoms, namely loosening of associations (thought disorder) and blunting of affect, are phenomena directly produced by the proce...

deaf-same and Difference in International Deaf Spaces and Encounters

Deaf Education and Deaf Studies 8(2)

Sign Language (ASL) is sensitive to irrelevant signed input (and other structured visual input) in a manner similar to the effects of irrelevant auditory input on working memory for speech. Deaf signers were disrupted on serial recall of lists of ASL signs when either pseudosigns or moving shapes were presented during a retention interval. Hearing subjects asked to recall lists of printed Engli...