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unusual facts about deafness


Media Access Australia

People with disabilities, particularly those who are Deaf, hearing impaired, blind or vision impaired, are in many cases excluded from mainstream audiovisual media, with often profound implications for educational outcomes, workforce participation and social inclusion.


33 Variations

The progression of her Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and her relationship with her daughter are also themes, as is Beethoven's growing deafness.

Acidosis

Mutations to the V-ATPase 'a4' or 'B1' isoforms result in distal renal tubular acidosis, a condition that leads to metabolic acidosis, in some cases with sensorineural deafness.

Alipur Sign Language

It is spoken in the town of Alipur, Karnataka, which is a self-imposed Muslim enclave with a high degree of congenital deafness in a largely Hindu region.

Amin J. Barakat

In 1977, Barakat and co-authors J.B. D'Albora, M.M. Martin, and P.A. Jose described four siblings with familial nephrosis, nerve deafness, and hypoparathyroidism.

BSND

Bartter syndrome, infantile, with sensorineural deafness (Barttin), also known as BSND, is a human gene which is associated with Bartter syndrome.

Cognitive hearing science

Cognitive hearing science has been introduced by researchers at the Linköping University research centre Linnaeus Centre HEAD (HEaring And Deafness) in Sweden, created in 2008 with a major 10-year grant from the Swedish Research Council.

Deafness Research UK

It was founded as Defeating Deafness in 1985 by the late British Member of Parliament Jack Ashley and his wife Pauline.

John Haighton

The silver medal of the Medical Society of London for 1790 was adjudged to him for his paper on Deafness.

Karen Steel

Together with Professor Christine Petit, Steel won the Royal Society Brain Prize 2012, for their pioneering work on the genetics of hearing and deafness.

Mary Jo Buttafuoco

Although deafened in one ear and her face partially paralyzed, she survived the shooting and was able to give a description of her assailant and a t-shirt that Fisher had shown her before she shot her.

Mohr–Tranebjærg syndrome

Mohr–Tranebjærg syndrome (MTS) is a rare X-liked recessive syndrome also known as Deafness-dystonia syndrome and caused by mutation in the TIMM8A gene.

Rajeev Bagga

Despite his deafness, Bagga is also a notable doubles player, and won the national championships in 1997, partnering with Vinod Kumar.

S. J. V. Chelvanayakam

Chelvanayakam health was increasingly poor; he had suffered from Parkinson's disease and growing deafness since the 1950s.

Stephen Roskill

He was the senior British observer at the Bikini Atomic tests in 1946, and served as Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, 1946-48 before retiring as a captain, due to increasing deafness caused by exposure to gun detonations.

Sweet Nothing in My Ear

With the film Hallmark Channel and producer-director Joseph Sargent revisited deafness with a universal theme contemplating the relationship of a minority group to society at large, 23 years after their previous film around a similar theme, the Emmy-winning Love Is Never Silent (1985).

Turkish Van

Solid-white Turkish angoras carry the epistatic (masking) white colour (W) dominant gene associated with white fur, blue eyes and often deafness.

Yard with Lunatics

Some historians speculate that Goya's symptoms may indicate prolonged viral encephalitis; and the mixture of tinnitus, imbalance and progressive deafness may be symptoms of Ménière's disease.


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