Performing music or singing together provides people with great pleasure. But if you are deaf (or hard of hearing) it is not always possible to listen other musicians while trying sing play an instrument. It can be particularly difficult perceive different musical pitches a hearing aid hearing-assistance device. However, the human body transmit sounds brain when vibrations applied skin. In word...

Background: This study aims to assess the level of self-determination skills acquired by deaf and hard hearing students (HISs) as perceived their teachers. And examine whether levels differ due variations in severity, type disability, students’ age, or teachers’ years experience independent variables. The dependent variable is skills.
 Methods: A descriptive-analytical method was used. sam...

In 1988, while I was serving as the Surgeon General of the United States, the Congressional Commission on Education of the Deaf issued a report that contained a troubling finding: that the average age at which permanent hearing loss among infants and young children was being identified in the United States was 21⁄2 to 3 years of age. Given the importance of language development and communicatio...

BACKGROUND Adolescents and young people with disabilities generally face various forms of discrimination. Inspite of this, they have to deal with similar reproductive health issues encountered by their abled peers. This situation is made worse by misconceptions that they are not sexually active. OBJECTIVE The objective was to compare the sexual practices of the hearing impaired students with ...

WORD READING STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT OF DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARING PRESCHOOLERS by Victoria Burke Siegler’s (1996) overlapping waves model of strategy development applied to reading posits that children use multiple strategies to read words from the earliest stage of reading development, that these strategies coexist over a long period of time, and that experience results in gradual change in the st...