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  • deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication. When used as a cultural label, especially within the culture, the word deaf...
    76 KB (8,845 words) - 03:18, 19 October 2024
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    According to Trimdon Snippets, "No one can really find out the origin of the word Deaf Hill. The nearest solution I think is when land did not yield much, it...
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  • Auditory verbal agnosia (AVA), also known as pure word deafness, is the inability to comprehend speech. Individuals with this disorder lose the ability...
    24 KB (3,090 words) - 17:53, 21 September 2024
  • American pejorative usage of the word to imply stupidity was first noted in the UK in 1928. According to the OED, deaf-mute was coined in the early 19th...
    10 KB (1,160 words) - 15:04, 12 September 2024
  • (pure word deafness), non-verbal auditory agnosia, amusia and word-meaning deafness, or a mild case of the more severe disorder, cerebral deafness. Typically...
    50 KB (6,235 words) - 02:27, 20 August 2024
  • spoken word poet, the two begin to collaborate, creating a new form of poetry that gains recognition in deaf and hearing communities alike. Deaf Jam premiered...
    14 KB (1,171 words) - 15:53, 21 June 2024
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    Hearing loss (redirect from Profoundly deaf)
    label especially within the culture, the word deaf is often written with a capital D and referred to as "big D Deaf" in speech and sign. When used as a label...
    101 KB (10,985 words) - 03:27, 21 November 2024
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    invented spontaneously by a deaf child who lacks accessible linguistic input. Home sign systems often arise in families where a deaf child is raised by hearing...
    20 KB (2,498 words) - 06:17, 28 October 2024
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    known as the "Father of the Deaf". He founded Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris, the first public school for the deaf, in 1760. Charles-Michel...
    12 KB (1,445 words) - 03:31, 12 November 2024
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    Wherever communities of deaf people exist, sign languages have developed as useful means of communication and form the core of local deaf cultures. Although...
    122 KB (13,739 words) - 23:10, 19 November 2024
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    American Sign Language (category Deaf culture in the United States)
    (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada. ASL is a...
    72 KB (8,116 words) - 12:52, 24 October 2024
  • Songs for the Deaf is the third studio album by the American rock band Queens of the Stone Age, released on August 27, 2002, by Interscope Records. It...
    44 KB (3,486 words) - 21:14, 20 November 2024
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    addition to nominations for a BAFTA Award, and four Primetime Emmy Awards. Deaf since she was 18 months old, Matlin made her acting debut playing Sarah Norman...
    47 KB (4,233 words) - 02:35, 18 November 2024
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    sulcus produces 'pure word deafness' (Kussmaul, 1877), or as it is understood today, speech agnosia. Patients with pure word deafness demonstrate the inability...
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    Dyslexia Impaired verbal memory Word agnosia, word deafness Impaired non-verbal memory Impaired musical skills Deafness Apathy (affective indifference)...
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  • Signing Exact English (category Education for the deaf)
    English word. SEE-II is not considered a language itself like ASL; rather it is an invented system for a language—namely, for English. Before 1970, deaf children...
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  • Cued speech (category Education for the deaf)
    Cued speech is a visual system of communication used with and among deaf or hard-of-hearing people. It is a phonemic-based system which makes traditionally...
    21 KB (1,998 words) - 00:29, 31 December 2023
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    Broca's area (category Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases from March 2018)
    Metz-Lutz MN, Dahl E (September 1984). "Analysis of word comprehension in a case of pure word deafness". Brain and Language. 23 (1): 13–25. doi:10...
    44 KB (5,209 words) - 17:38, 31 October 2024
  • Prelingual deafness refers to deafness that occurs before learning speech or language. Speech and language typically begin to develop very early with...
    22 KB (2,804 words) - 11:59, 10 February 2024
  • Auslan (section Word order)
    Sign Language) is the sign language used by the majority of the Australian Deaf community. Auslan is related to British Sign Language (BSL) and New Zealand...
    30 KB (3,579 words) - 01:25, 17 September 2024
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