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The Impact and Experience of Adventitious Deafness.
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Rutman, Deborah – American Annals of the Deaf, 1989
This paper summarizes, integrates and evaluates the literature on adventitious deafness. Issues explored include: a comparison of congenital and adventitious deafness, psychiatric problems among late-deafened individuals, effects of acquired deafness on identity and personal control, and adventitious deafness among the elderly. (Author/PB)
Descriptors: Adults, Adventitious Impairments, Deafness, Emotional Problems
Smoking and Deaf Adults: Associations with Age at Onset of Deafness.
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Barnett, Steven; Franks, Peter – American Annals of the Deaf, 1999
Using national survey data, this study found that the smoking prevalence among postlingually deafened adults was not significantly different than hearing adults. Prelingually deafened adults were found to be less likely to smoke than hearing adults, even though they had less education and lower incomes, factors usually associated with higher…
Descriptors: Adults, Adventitious Impairments, Congenital Impairments, Deafness
Causes of Deafness: Retrospection and Omens.
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Champie, Joan – American Annals of the Deaf, 1996
This study reviewed records of several American schools for the deaf in the 19th century concerning the stated causes of deafness given by parents. The high rate of adventitious deafness is noted. Stated causes are categorized into: fevers, inflammations, medicines/poisons, trauma, heat/cold, ear problems, nervous system problems, head/neck…
Descriptors: Adventitious Impairments, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Etiology
Onset, Cause, and Additional Handicaps in Hearing Impaired Children
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Jensema, Carl; Mullins, Jane – American Annals of the Deaf, 1974
Some statistics are presented concerning age of onset, cause, and additional handicaps from a nationwide sample (1972-73) of 43,946 hearing impaired students enrolled in 712 special education programs. (Author/LS)
Descriptors: Adventitious Impairments, Age Differences, Congenital Impairments, Etiology
Performance of Deaf College Students on a Criterion-Referenced, Modified Cloze Test of Reading Comprehension.
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Reynolds, H. N. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1986
Analysis of deaf college students' (N=100) performance on the Degrees of Reading Power test (which assesses reading comprehension with use of a modified cloze procedure) revealed that postlingually deaf students scored higher than prelingually deaf students. Scores correlated with degree of hearing loss for prelingually deaf students and…
Descriptors: Adventitious Impairments, Cloze Procedure, College Students, Congenital Impairments
Future Education for the Multiply Handicapped.
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Macdonald, Roderick – American Annals of the Deaf, 1979
Originally part of a symposium on educational media for the deaf, the author shares his experiences as a multiply handicapped person. Legally blind since he was three years old and profoundly deaf for the past ten years, the author recounts his educational training and frustrations in finding work suitable to his intellect and aspirations. (PHR)
Descriptors: Adventitious Impairments, Conferences, Deaf Blind, Deaf Interpreting
New Medical Technology: To What Does It Lead?
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Enerstvedt, Regi Theodor – American Annals of the Deaf, 1999
Addresses issues of advances in medical technology as related to deafness, including different meanings of the term "medical technology" and the relationship between ethics and the scientific method, production and use of the cochlear implant, and sign language versus aural/aural-communication methods with prelingually deafened children…
Descriptors: Adventitious Impairments, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Children, Cochlear Implants