One thinks of Beethoven, clawing at his piano to try to break through his deafness; or Mozart, impoverished, struggling to finish his Requiem before death overtakes him.
So they talk, you see their lips moving, but basically cannot comprehend what they are saying, words like COBRA, severance, benefits, sign here and other things like that temporarily pierce through your deafness.
Ebola spreads through bodily fluids, but also through silence though perhaps deafness would be a better word.
In her second year of a BA Hons in dance, she says: "My ambition is to produce the first deaf dance company in the UK and change the way the country views deafness through dance".
When comedy focuses on deafness, whether through a deaf character or a quickfire gag, what I want is the sense that the comedians are aware that deaf people are living, breathing, real people, that deafness is more than just a mechanism, and that their humour is rooted in something honest about our lives.
In this study, we analyzed etiology, audiologic, psychiatric, and clinical aspects of psychogenic sudden deafness through a retrospective chart review.
While our research activities span the field of OHNS, a special emphasis is placed on the goal of curing deafness through regenerative means.
In the absence of aminoglycoside antibiotics, individuals with 1555A>G mutation exhibit various clinical phenotype that ranges from severe congenital deafness, through moderate progressive hearing loss of late onset, to completely normal hearing (Lu et al., 2010a).
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Thus, a Sox10 mutation in ASCD could change coat colour, possibly cause white speckling and deafness through a lack of melanocyte function in the inner ear and altered neural crest development.
