Abstract Deaf-mute people have much potential to contribute society. However, communication between deaf-mutes and non-deaf-mutes is a problem that isolates from society prevents them interacting with others. In this study, an information technology intervention, intelligent gloves (IG), prototype of two-way glove, was developed facilitate non-deaf-mutes. IG consists pair gloves, flex sensors, ...

heredity hearing loss (hl) is the most prevalent sensory disorder and most cases are non-syndromic. eighty percent of non-syndromic sensorineural deaf patients show an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance. to date, 47 genes and 98 loci have been reported for this mode of inheritance. previous studies in our center showed the high prevalence of dfnb3 among iranian deaf families. pjvk (dfnb...

BACKGROUND Vocabulary knowledge and speechreading are important for deaf children's reading development but it is unknown whether they are independent predictors of reading ability. AIMS This study investigated the relationships between reading, speechreading and vocabulary in a large cohort of deaf and hearing children aged 5 to 14 years. METHODS AND PROCEDURES 86 severely and profoundly d...

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...

BACKGROUND Deaf children vary in the use of and proficiency in signed language. The majority of studies on writing skills of children who are deaf did not assess deaf children's proficiency in signed language and/or grouped together deaf children with varying sign language skills. AIMS Adopting a bimodal bilingual perspective, we examined evaluative expression, an important narrative tool in ...

Much of the empirical data available about therapeutic alliance and its relationship to termination status come from individual psychotherapies. We know less about therapeutic alliance in couple therapy. A unique characteristic of alliance in couple or family therapy is the possibility of discrepancies in alliance between system members. In this study we sought to demonstrate three statistical ...