PURPOSE Previous studies have shown brain reorganizations after early deprivation of auditory sensory. However, changes of grey matter connectivity have not been investigated in prelingually deaf adolescents yet. In the present study, we aimed to investigate changes of grey matter connectivity within and between auditory, language and visual systems in prelingually deaf adolescents. METHODS W...

The study of congenitally deaf individuals provides a unique opportunity to understand the organization and potential for reorganization of human auditory cortex. We used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to examine the structural organization of two auditory cortical regions, Heschl's gyrus (HG) and the planum temporale (PT), in deaf and hearing subjects. The results show preservation of cortic...

This paper describes the impact of the use of cochlear implants with deaf children in Norway over the last 20 years and examines how this intervention has raised new expectations and some tensions concerning the future of education for deaf students. The paper reports on two national studies of communication within school learning environments and the educational experiences of young children w...

Dr. George Propp was the Associate Director of the Media Development Project for the Hearing Impaired at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln. He was formerly Assistant Director of the Specialized Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and prior to that, Associate Director and Coordinator of Instruction for the Midwest Regional Media Center for the Deaf. From 1972 to 1974, he was a faculty membe...

Talking to oneself can be silent (inner speech) or vocalized for others to hear (private speech, or soliloquy). We investigated these two types of self-communication in 28 deaf signers and 28 hearing adults. With a questionnaire specifically developed for this study, we established the visible analog of vocalized private speech in deaf signers. "Signed soliloquy" is employed regularly and value...

Children with hearing impairment have deficits of balance and motors. Although most of parents teach deaf children communication skills in early life, but rarely teach the deficits of balance. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether static balance improved after table tennis training. Table tennis training was provided four times a week for eight weeks to two 12-year-old deaf child...

This study examined the impact and predictive ability of parental personality and perceived stress on behavior problems of their deaf child. One hundred and fourteen parents with a deaf child completed measures of personality, parenting stress, and child behavioral functioning. Higher parental neuroticism, which reflects a susceptibility to emotional and psychological distress, significantly pr...

This paper uses data from open-ended, videotaped interviews with 12 deaf people to examine their experiences negotiating access during interactions with legal authorities. In every case, these deaf persons preferred an accommodation that involved the use of an American Sign Language interpreter, and in every case, these accommodations were problematic. Three major themes emerged from the inform...

This study explored relations of print exposure, academic achievement, and reading habits among 100 deaf and 100 hearing college students. As in earlier studies, recognition tests for book titles and magazine titles were used as measures of print exposure, college entrance test scores were used as measures of academic achievement, and students provided self-reports of reading habits. Deaf stude...

This paper describes the development of a new Test of Child Speechreading (ToCS) that was specifically designed to be suitable for use with deaf children. Speechreading is a skill which is required for deaf children to access the language of the hearing community. ToCS is a child-friendly, computer-based, speechreading test that measures speechreading (silent lipreading) at three psycholinguist...