Dual sensory impairment or 'deafblindness' imposes a special quality of engagement between the self and the social world. Yet novels, which specialise in the exploration of human subjectivity, have failed spectacularly to capture this. This thesis analyses the gap in representat…
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"Hearing Loss: Causes, Prevention, and Treatment covers hearing loss, causes and prevention, treatments, and future directions in the field, also looking at the cognitive problems that can develop. To avoid the "silent epidemic" of hearing loss, it is necessary to promote early …
"Deaf people are usually regarded by the hearing world as having a lack, as missing a sense. Yet a definition of deaf people based on hearing loss obscures a wealth of ways in which societies have benefited from the significant contributions of deaf people. In this bold interven…
Deaf gain: raising the stakes for human diversity
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Deaf people are usually regarded by the hearing world as having a lack, as missing a sense. Yet a definition of deaf people based on hearing loss obscures a wealth of ways in which societies have benefited from the significant contributions of deaf people. In this intervention i…
How deafness is perceived as a problem by society dictates what types of technologies are leveraged to address the problem, and, conversely, available technologies shape how deafness is perceived. In this dissertation, I draw on multiple methods to explore the meanings of deafne…
Computational proteogenomic integrates proteomics with genomics and transcriptomics data and has emerged over the past decade as a useful discipline for functional annotation of genomes. It has been driven by high-throughput technologies from mass spectrometry and next generatio…
Amaç: Çalışmamızın amacı, unilateral koklear implant kullanıcılarının ve bimodal koklear implant kullanıcılarının dinleme eforlarını karşılaştırmalı olarak değerlendirerek; bimodal koklear implant kullanıcılarında, bimodal işitmeyle sağlanan binaural uyarımın avantajları ve bu k…
Simultaneous communication (Sim-Com), is a common communication mode that was developed for the education system of deaf and hard of hearing in order to improve the acquisition of the spoken language by representing it in sign language. Most previous studies that tested the infl…
Historically, South African society has had conflicting views on the nature and nurture of Deaf people and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ) people. In the context of the diverse nature of South African cultures and societies, the reality and exist…
DFNB3 is a form of profound, nonsyndromic, autosomal, recessive deafness originally identified in the Balinese village of Bengkala. Among the 2200 villagers, 48 individuals are deaf. A genome wide screen was used to identify an interval of excess homozygosity among affected indi…