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Tag Archives: hearing impairment
Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, April 27 to Friday, May 1
Aqui puede leer este articulo en espanol Human Interest: When strangers assume your girlfriend is your nurse (The Washington Post) Shane has lived his entire life with spinal muscular atrophy. That’s 22 years, save the first three, that he has … Continue reading
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Tagged apps for blind users, autism, braille learning app, cannabidiol, cannabis, CBD, diabetes alert dog, epilepsy treatment, FOG, freezing of gait, hearing impairment, Microsoft Kinect, mobility and functional decline, neural prosthetic devices, Parkinson's Disease, prodigies, service dogs, spinal muscular atrophy, temporal acoustic patterns, type 1 diabetes
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, December 15 –Friday, December 19
Human Interest: ‘El Deafo’: How a girl turned her disability into a superpower (NPR) Writer and illustrator Cece Bell tells her own story about growing up with a hearing impairment following meningitis at the age of 4. In her graphic … Continue reading
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Tagged 3D printed prostheses for dog, ADHD, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Concerta, deaf, district of columbia school system, down syndrome, El Deafo, eldercare, Green House Project, hearing aids, hearing impairment, higher education, methylphenidate; Ritalin, mild cognitive impairment MCI, Phonic Ear, prosthetic skin, special education
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, May 19 – Friday, May 23
Human Interest: How a brain treatment for OCD turned a man into a Johnny Cash fanatic (The Washington Post) “A case of musical preference for Johnny Cash following deep brain stimulation of the nucleus accumbens,” published in the May issue … Continue reading
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Tagged autism, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Combating Autism Act, combating autism reauthorization act, Country and Western singer Johnny Cash, DBS, deaf and hard of hearing, deep brain stimulation, exercise for people with disabilities, Frontiers of Behavioral Neuroscience, gait assessment technology, hearing impairment, hearing loss, job training, nucleus accumbens, obsessive compulsive disorder, OCD, Office of AIDS Research, sleep apnea, smartphone app, sound identification, TBI, Text to 911, traumatic brain injury
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, April 28 – Friday, May 2
Human Interest: Soldier who lost leg in Afghanistan vowed ‘I will return.’ This is what it took to get back. (The Washington Post) Following a leg injury sustained by a roadside bomb that resulted in amputation, a US Army soldier … Continue reading
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Tagged accessible housing, amputation, assisted living, behavior modification device, caregivers, cochlear implant, crowdfunding, disability employment, fda, Food and Drug Administration, group home, hearing impairment, homelessness, injured veterans, knee arthritis, laughter, leg amputation, leg prosthesis, medicaid, Medicaid funding, memory improvement activity, National Park Service, osteoarthritis, prosthetic, service animals, service dogs, shock devices, supported living, TBI, traumatic brain injury, unemployment, universal design, walker, walking disability, walking impairment
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