background it seems that there is a relationship between consanguinity and profound hearing loss but there is little data about the association of consanguinity and hearing loss in iran. objectives the aim of this study is to demonstrate the causes of profound bilateral sensorineural hearing loss among iranian samples who are candidates for cochlear implantation. methods this study was retrospe...

Objectives: This paper studies the effect of Persian Cued Speech on the perception of Persian language phonemes and monosyllabic words with and without sound in hearing impaired children. Cued Speech is a sound based mode of communication for hearing impaired people that is comprised of a limited series of hand complements and the normal pattern of speech. And it is shown that it effectively ca...

The assessment of hearing impaired children is fraught with a number of problems. These include lack of valid assessment measures, faulty theoretical assumptions, lack of knowledge regarding the functioning of cognitive processes of these children, and biases against these children. This article briefly considers these issues and describes a study conducted with hearing impaired children. To ex...

Parental stress endangers the own mental stability and is considered as a factor for dysfunctional parental behavior (Tröster 2011). Parents of hearing impaired children face stressful challenges that can even persist after cochlear implantation (CI) their child.

UNLABELLED The current study addressed deaf children's Theory of Mind (ToM) development as measured by a battery of first- and second-order belief tasks. Both a chronological age-matched control group and a younger group of pre-school aged hearing children were compared to a group of deaf children born to hearing parents. A hearing native signer enacted each of the tasks, which were pre-recorde...

Previous studies show that typically developing 4-year old children can understand other people's false beliefs but that deaf children of hearing families have difficulty in understanding false beliefs until the age of approximately 13. Because false beliefs are implicit mental states that are not expressed through clear visual cues in standard false belief tasks, the present study examines the...

ren are given to illustrate a number of the conditions that may lead to this delay. Methods of trying to help children with particular disabilities are described, such as those for the deaf child, the emotionally disturbed child, the brain damaged and physically handicapped child, and the child who stammers. The work of a school for multiply handicapped children is reviewed, with particular ref...