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Hereditary Deafness - Articles
Pianos, deaf ears and 11 year olds
by
David B.
Posted
Wed 30 Jul 2008 12:00am
, that request fell on the safe deaf ears that “I wanna pony” requests fell on.
The other day, (the day they went to the neighbors house for the day) she came back, ecstatic about... the door. A pianist in the future? A piano, perhaps? Or is it deaf ears, that will continue to hear these things, or perhaps, deaf ears in MY future?
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Deaf Ears
by
Kate M.
Posted
Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:17pm
Don't ya just hate it when people say I told you so?
I'm not gonna say it... but, the Quail Botanical Gardens could (and probably should.)
Ten years ago they started preaching the merits of defensive gardening in Southern California (i.e. giving your perennials a job to do.)
Succulents like aloe, jade and yu ...
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Good Deaf Reads
by
kim
Posted
Mon 27 Aug 2007 12:00am
. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
6. Through Deaf Eyes: A Photographic History Of An American Community
7. Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness On Martha...; the captives turned out to be deaf. What the kidnappers didn’t count on was the trouble they would encounter controlling their victims due to the deaf girls’ ability to speak silently
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TMC1, a Deafness-Related Gene
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nih.gov
Posted
Mon 30 Apr 2007 5:00pm
mutations in TMC1 underlie two forms of hereditary deafness, known as DFNA36 and DFNB7/11. TMC1 encodes a protein required for normal function of the mammalian hair cell, which plays... and recessive deafness caused by mutations of a novel gene, TMC1, required for cochlear hair-cell function. Nat Genet. 2002 Mar;30(3):277-284. [ PubMed abs ]
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Re: Mishka...Deaf Culture-Deaf Community??
by
Jodi Cutler Del Dottore
Posted
Thu 27 Nov 2008 10:09am
In Mishka's postAgainst ASL and Deaf Culture, Karen Mayes Says:
*whistle*
I really don’t have a problem with ASL (we use it predominately at home) and Deaf Culture... life, not thinking about Deaf Culture, etc, just like most of people just living. Deaf culture is really part of Deaf community, nothing more, as well as oral deaf people, CI
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Signing to all deaf / Deaf people!
by
Funny Old Life
Posted
Fri 21 Nov 2008 2:04pm
Middlesex University researcher Catherine Carlton wants to contact members of the Deaf community n a project looking at the importance of BSL to Deaf identity. The research aims to highlight the importance of British Sign Language to the Deaf community and explore Deaf Identities.
if you would like to help by completing the questionnaire
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Informal Comparison/Contrast of Deaf culture to deaf culture
by
kim
Posted
Tue 13 Oct 2009 12:00am
, but several good discussions are coming out of this. Looking down toward the second to the last comment, Gamas posted a series of common Deaf cultural traits, which I will relate to ‘deaf’ cultural traits.
I will list them.
Attention getting behavior . . . when deaf people try to get attention of other people in a room when lights fails
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A Letter from a Deaf Lawyer for Non-LPC Deaf Counselors
by
Candace A. McCullough
Posted
Thu 06 Aug 2009 11:00pm
As many of you already know, Deaf counselors are few and far between. The reason for this, in part, may be due to the fact that the national licensure exam for counselors is largely English-centric. Below, we are reprinting a letter from a Deaf lawyer, who is working to rectify the situation, and hopefully, enable more Deaf counselors to obtain
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