1.1 The following references and annotations are collected to facilitate the emergence of Hittite Deaf people from the 13th Century BC, in the modern literature of Deaf History. The present work is tentative, and welcomes critical comment and corrections. (A more formal article in English is likely to be published later). The work is reaching a critical stage of development, as it becomes clear...

BACKGROUND Persons with disabilities in general face serious barriers to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information and services due to institutional and attitudinal barriers. However, because deaf people have unique communication and linguistic needs, which are often misunderstood or ignored, they face greater barriers than other persons with disabilities. Whilst available data indicated...

Deaf Liberation Theology is a branch of theology that has been developed over the past twenty years, with the book Deaf Liberation Theology published by Ashgate in 2007 (Lewis 2007) as a focal point of this development. This article briefly looks at the roots of Deaf Liberation Theology in both the concept of Deaf people as an oppressed linguistic minority and the principles of Liberation theol...

THERE deaf or hard-of-hearing person. Deaf and hardIS NO TYPICAL of-hearing patrons come from diverse backgrounds and use differing communication modes. Librarians can best communicate with and serve these individuals by learning and applying basic communication skills. Information on deafness and deaf people is presented, as are easily learned skills that are effective in communicating with de...

OBJECTIVES To assess the current health of the Deaf community in the UK and compare with the general population. DESIGN A quota sample of adult Deaf British Sign Language (BSL) users underwent a health assessment and interview in 2012-2013. Comparative data were obtained from the Health Survey for England (HSE) 2011 and the Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF) 2012. SETTING Participants complet...

A literature review is a search for research papers on a particular topic. In this case the topic was ‘suicide in the deaf’. Initially the researchers found 95 papers on deafness and suicide. However, when they looked at them more closely, many of the papers were not relevant. In fact they found only four papers about deafness and suicide: Boyechko 1992, Critchfi eld et al 1986, Dudzinski 1998 ...

We present a global overview of imageand video-processing-based methods to help the communication of hearing impaired people. Two directions of communication have to be considered: from a hearing person to a hearing impaired person and vice versa. In this paper, firstly, we describe sign language (SL) and the cued speech (CS) language which are two different languages used by the deaf community...

BACKGROUND Studies have found that deaf individuals have higher rates of psychiatric disorder than those who are hearing, while at the same time encountering difficulties in accessing mental health services. These factors might increase the risk of suicide. However, the burden of suicidal behaviour in deaf people is currently unknown. The aim of the present review was to provide a summary of li...

The absence of the ability to hear sounds in deaf people is an obstacle to optimal communication in a predominantly hearing world. Emergency situations harbor sufficient challenge for the hearing person and pose even greater barriers for the deaf and hard of hearing. During disasters and emergency situations, deaf people have great difficulty in obtaining and sharing information, increasing the...

The presented project aims at the examination of the relation of the deaf and hard of hearing people with the new technologies in Greece. The research was conducted through the construction and delivery of an online questionnaire to the members of two deaf organisations in Athens and refers to the motives, for the use of the internet services by deaf people. Particularly, the subject of this pr...