Hearing Impaired Persons - Psychology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Academic status and progress of deaf and hard-of-hearing students in general education classrooms.

4 Jun 2009 The study participants were 197 deaf or hard-of-hearing students with mild to profound hearing loss who attended general education classes for 2 or more hours per day. We obtained scores on standardized achievement tests of math, reading, and ... Read more...

Views of elementary school teachers towards students with cochlear implants inclusion in the process of education.

30 May 2009 The paper reveals views of teachers in some regular elementary schools in the Republic of Croatia where students with cochlear implants, who are also rehabilitants of SUVAG Polyclinic, are educated. Survey aimed to research the views of teachers ... Read more...

Self-perception of hearing ability as a strong predictor of hearing aid purchase.

30 May 2009 BACKGROUND: Hearing threshold data are not particularly predictive of self-perceived hearing handicap or readiness to pursue amplification. Poor correlations between these measures have been reported repeatedly. When a patient is evaluated for ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Hearing Impaired Persons - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Academic status and progress of deaf and hard-of-hearing students in general education classrooms. 4 Jun 2009
• Views of elementary school teachers towards students with cochlear implants inclusion in the process of education. 30 May 2009
• Self-perception of hearing ability as a strong predictor of hearing aid purchase. 30 May 2009
• Bridge of signs: can sign language empower non-deaf children to triumph over their communication disabilities? 30 Dec 2008
• Predicting behavior problems in deaf and hearing children: the influences of language, attention, and parent-child communication. 30 Dec 2008
• Establishment of joint attention in dyads involving hearing mothers of deaf and hearing children, and its relation to adaptive social behavior. 30 Dec 2008
• An exploratory study of psychosocial risk behaviors of adolescents who are deaf or hard of hearing: comparisons and recommendations. 30 Dec 2008
• A comparison of motor abilities and perceived self-efficacy between children with hearing impairments and normal hearing children. 30 Dec 2008
• Mental health and self-image among deaf and hard of hearing children. 30 Dec 2008
• Roles and responsibilities of itinerant specialist teachers of deaf and hard of hearing students. 30 Dec 2008
• 'Deaf people have unique care needs that nurses must understand and help address'. 30 Dec 2008
• Evaluating the benefit of hearing aids in solving the cocktail party problem. 29 Nov 2008
• Communication as an ecological system. 30 Oct 2008
• Deafblindness, ontological security, and social recognition. 30 Oct 2008
• Phonological mismatch and explicit cognitive processing in a sample of 102 hearing-aid users. 30 Oct 2008
• Are individual differences in speech reception related to individual differences in cognitive ability? A survey of twenty experimental studies with normal and hearing-impaired adults. 30 Oct 2008
• Cognitive development in children with cochlear implants: relations to reading and communication. 30 Oct 2008
• Development of speech intelligibility and narrative abilities and their interrelationship three and five years after paediatric cochlear implantation. 30 Oct 2008
• Long-term outcomes of cochlear implantation in the preschool years: from elementary grades to high school. 30 Oct 2008
• Perceived competence and school adjustment of hearing impaired children in mainstream primary school settings. 30 Oct 2008

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Technical information about 'Hearing Impaired Persons'

Definition: Persons with any degree of loss of hearing that has an impact on their activities of daily living or that requires special assistance or intervention.

Descriptor UI: D019986

Alternative terms: Hearing Impaired Persons; Hearing Impaired Person; Person, Hearing Impaired; Persons, Hearing Impaired; Deaf Persons; Deaf Person; Person, Deaf; Persons, Deaf; Hard of Hearing Persons; Persons With Hearing Impairments;

Related Mesh Headings: Deafness; Deaf-Blind Disorders;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; education; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data; rehabilitation;

Tree Number: M01.150.400;

History Note: 98