Hearing Impairment and Communication

BACKGROUND: Hearing loss affects access to spoken language, which can affect cognition and development, and can negatively affect social wellbeing. We present updated estimates from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study on the prevalence of hearing loss in 2019, as well as the condition's associated disability. MET…

• VAHİT YİĞİT

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• AGUSTİN MARİANO IBANEZ

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Researchers have used various theories to explain deaf individuals’ reading skills, including the dual route reading theory, the orthographic depth theory, and the early language access theory. This study tested 4 groups of children—hearing with dyslexia, hearing without dyslexia, deaf early signers, and deaf late sig…

• İSA BİRKAN GÜLDENOĞLU

Researchers have used various theories to explain deaf individuals’ reading skills, including the dual route reading theory, the orthographic depth theory, and the early language access theory. This study tested 4 groups of children—hearing with dyslexia, hearing without dyslexia, deaf early signers, and deaf late sig…

• TEVHİDE KARGIN

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• AGUSTİN MARİANO IBANEZ

Deaf people use sign languages to communicate with other people in the community. Although the sign language is known to hearing-impaired people due to its widespread use among them, it is not known much by other people. In this article, we have developed a real-time sign language recognition system for people who do…

BACKGROUND: Behavioral studies have provided evidence for an action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE) that suggests a coupling of motor mechanisms and action-sentence comprehension. When both processes are concurrent, the action sentence primes the actual movement, and simultaneously, the action affects comprehensio…

• AGUSTİN MARİANO IBANEZ

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Speakers use spontaneous hand gestures as they speak and think. These gestures serve many functions for speakers who produce them as well as for listeners who observe them. To date, studies in the gesture literature mostly focused on group-comparisons or the external sources of variation to examine when people use, pr…

• DEMET ÖZER

OBJECTIVE: The aim of our study is to present the results of 11 children where auditory brainstem implantation (ABI) was successfully performed to restore hearing. STUDY DESIGN: Case presentation. This study was conducted at the departments of Otolaryngology and Neurosurgery at Hacettepe University Ankara, Turkey. PAT…

• ESRA YÜCEL
• GONCA SENNAROĞLU