Deafness - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Tone discrimination and speech perception benefit in Mandarin-speaking children fit with HiRes fidelity 120 sound processing.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: To compare tone discrimination, speech perception, and general listening benefit in Mandarin-speaking children using standard HiRes and after 1, 3, and 6 months of HiRes 120 use. The HiResolution Bionic Ear is an implantable prosthesis ... Read more...

Impact of early cochlear implantation on the linguistic development of the deaf child.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine prognostic factors of cochlear implantation and to evaluate the impact of early implantation on linguistic development in deaf children. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective study. SETTING: Tertiary ... Read more...

The scholastic achievement of profoundly deaf children with cochlear implants compared to their normal peers.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: The scholastic achievement of children with cochlear implants is one of the most important determinants of recipients' quality of life after cochlear implantation. The present study aimed to study the scholastic achievement of 27 ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Deafness - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Tone discrimination and speech perception benefit in Mandarin-speaking children fit with HiRes fidelity 120 sound processing. 30 Aug 2009
• Impact of early cochlear implantation on the linguistic development of the deaf child. 30 Aug 2009
• The scholastic achievement of profoundly deaf children with cochlear implants compared to their normal peers. 30 Aug 2009
• Interactions between a deaf child for whom English is an additional language and his specialist teacher in the first year at school: combining words and gestures. 30 Jul 2009
• Vocal singing by prelingually-deafened children with cochlear implants. 24 Jun 2009
• Does language about similarity play a role in fostering similarity comparison in children? 10 Jun 2009
• Academic status and progress of deaf and hard-of-hearing students in general education classrooms. 4 Jun 2009
• Structural priming of adjective-noun structures in hearing and deaf children. Jun 2009
• Enhanced activation of the left inferior frontal gyrus in deaf and dyslexic adults during rhyming. 23 May 2009
• [Admission of deaf patients in a health facility] 29 Apr 2009
• Adapting health education material for deaf audiences. 29 Apr 2009
• Health-related vocabulary knowledge among deaf adults. 29 Apr 2009
• Chinese deaf adolescents' free recall of taxonomic, slot-filler, and thematic categories. 12 Apr 2009
• Predicting academic success among deaf college students. 6 Apr 2009
• Comparison of dual-time-constant and fast-acting automatic gain control (AGC) systems in cochlear implants. 30 Mar 2009
• Effects of FM-receiver gain on speech-recognition performance of adults with cochlear implants. 30 Mar 2009
• Making sense of nonsense in British Sign Language (BSL): The contribution of different phonological parameters to sign recognition. 30 Mar 2009
• Benefits of short interimplant delays in children receiving bilateral cochlear implants. 30 Mar 2009
• Subjective and objective results after bilateral cochlear implantation in adults. 30 Mar 2009
• An objective method to measure electrode independence in cochlear implant patients with a dual-masker forward masking technique. 19 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Deafness'

Definition: A general term for the complete loss of the ability to hear from both ears.

Descriptor UI: D003638

Alternative terms: Deafness; Bilateral Deafness; Deafness, Bilateral; Hearing Loss, Complete; Complete Hearing Loss; Prelingual Deafness; Deafness, Prelingual; Deaf-Mutism; Deaf Mutism; Deafness, Acquired; Acquired Deafness; Hearing Loss, Extreme; Extreme Hearing Loss;

Related Mesh Headings: Hearing Aids; Lipreading;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C09.218.458.341.186; C10.597.751.418.341.186; C23.888.592.763.393.341.186;

Online Note: use DEAFNESS to search DEAF-MUTISM 1966-79

History Note: DEAF-MUTISM was heading 1963-79

Technical Notes: differentiate from HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; see various specific terms under HEARING LOSS