News tagged with deaf
Researchers create cell phones for sign language
Dec 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers and colleagues have created cell phones that allow deaf people to communicate in sign language, the same way hearing people use phones to talk.
Findings could lead to improved lip-reading training for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Sep 10, 2009 |
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A new study by the University of East Anglia suggests computers are now better at lip-reading than humans.
Neural pathway missing in tone-deaf people
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Nerve fibers that link perception and motor regions of the brain are disconnected in tone-deaf people, according to new research in the August 19 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Experts estimate that at least 10 per ...
Expressing comparisons is possible even without language, researchers find
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Making comparisons between objects, like comparing a tiger to a cat, is elemental in the development of a child’s ability to grasp the concept of categories.
Wis. could be first to require cochlear implants
Apr 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Wisconsin could become the first state requiring private insurance companies to cover cochlear implants for children with severe hearing problems. The state Legislature passed a bill Thursday requiring private health ...
Good vibrations: Devices aid the deaf by translating sound waves to vibrations
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Lip reading is a critical means of communication for many deaf people, but it has a drawback: Certain consonants (for example, p and b) can be nearly impossible to distinguish by sight alone.
Deaf children use hands to invent own way of communicating
Feb 15, 2009 |
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Deaf children are able to develop a language-like gesture system by making up hand signs and using homemade systems to increase their communication as they grow, just as children with conventional spoken language, research ...
Videophone program for deaf is questioned
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 04, 2009 |
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Capt. Kirk and his unforgettable "Beam me up, Scotty" introduced a generation to the concept of videophones on the 1960s drama series "Star Trek." The phones are now a reality - for more than 100,000 deaf people.
Sign language over a mobile phone
Aug 22, 2008 |
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A group at the University of Washington has developed software that for the first time enables deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans to use sign language over a mobile phone. UW engineers got the phones working together this ...
