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…
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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…
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…
This thesis reports on a study carried out in Malaysia, my home country. The Malaysian government supports the inclusion of children with disabilities in education in line with United Nations initiatives, however the main focus so far has been on children with physical and learn…
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…
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…
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…
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…