Approximately 9% to 10% of Americans have hearing loss, making it the second most common disability in the United States. Regardless of hearing loss level, persons who are deaf or hard of hearing (D&HH) have altered health care utilization patterns and significant communication difficulties with physicians, often experiencing misunderstandings about their disease or treatment recommendations. T...

Title of Thesis: COMPARISON OF STRUCTURAL INTERACTION PATTERNS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND CAUCASIAN CLINICAL COUPLES: THE MODERATING EFFECT OF FINANCIAL RESOURCES John Rennie Hart, M.S., 2012 Thesis Directed By: Professor Norman B. Epstein, Department of Family Science This study focused on degrees to which African American and Caucasian couples who have sought couple therapy at a community clinic...

The central thesis of this article is the treatment of the marital relationship within the context of social exchange theory. This article opens with a discussion of marital solidarity and marital power from a social exchange perspective. Next, the article addresses the differences between social exchange and economic exchange in order to provide insight in delineating marital relationships in ...

the aim of this study was to compare the static and dynamic balance performance of deaf children with and without cochlear implants. this is a cross-sectional study of 145 school children, aged between 7 and 12 years comprising 85 children with congenital or early acquired bilateral profound sensorineural hearing loss (the hearing loss group) and 60 normal hearing aged-matched control counterpa...

The Achievements of Deaf Pupils in Scotland (ADPS) project has been tracking the educational attainment of deaf pupils in Scotland's schools since 2000. At the time of writing, the database contains records for 1,752 deaf pupils (2000-2005). Here 4-year aggregate educational attainment data are reported for a subset of 152 school-aged deaf pupils with cochlear implants notified to the ADPS data...

Can skill in a language in a visual modality such as American Sign Language (ASL) contribute to the development of literacy in a spoken language such as English? Are there ways that signing can be used to interact with printed text that helps deaf children make connections to print and consequently, learn to read? What specific practices might users of signed languages engage in to promote an e...

Previous research suggested an unexplained difference in the patterns of offending behaviors among deaf people when compared to hearing people. This study, conducted in Texas, compares the incidence and types of violent offenses of a deaf prison population in comparison to the hearing prison population. Sixty-four percent of deaf prisoners were incarcerated for violent offenses in comparison to...

This study investigated deaf adolescents' implicit and explicit awareness of subject-verb number agreement. In Experiment 1, a self-paced reading task, the reading times of deaf and hearing children (matched for reading and chronological age, mean=8;3 and 13;10 years) increased when sentences contained disagreeing subject-verb number markers. However, deaf adolescents' slowing occurred later in...

The rate of disability is increase day by day all over the world .There are various type of Disabilities but the deaf persons are on second number among all types of disabilities.. In most of the countries disabled persons are supposed to be social liability on their family and in the society as awhile. Now days in developing countries it is difficult for normal persons to get suitable jobs. Wh...

Deaf people who use British Sign Language (BSL) as a first or preferred language are a recognised minority group in the UK. The body of evidence on Deaf people’s substance use is negligible. Clinicians working in a specialist psychiatric service for Deaf people, serving the south of England, surveyed the service’s caseload of Deaf psychiatric patients, using an alcohol screening instrument tran...