Deaf People With Mental Illness Need Culturally Sensitive Treatment

VIDEO: Deaf people with mental illness need culturally sensitive treatment.



Examiner.com - Medical practitioners need to provide culturally sensitive treatment to members of the Deaf community with psychiatric disorders to ensure they are diagnosed correctly and receive appropriate treatment, says Wolters Kluwer Health.



The report was published in the March Journal of Psychiatric Practice. The authors reviewed the limited research literature available about the mental health care of Deaf patients who communicate via American Sign Language (ASL) or gestures.



Communication strategies: Communication is challenging for Deaf people who communicate in sign language or in gestures.



"Deaf individuals comprise a cultural and linguistic minority group within the United States, and culturally and linguistically appropriate psychiatric treatment must reflect these differences," according to Sarah A. Landsberger, PhD, and coauthors of the Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis.

There are approximately 1.2 Americans with profound hearing loss. Some Deaf people are unable to hear most sounds, even with assistive listening devices such as hearing aids.



Some Deaf people identify themselves as part of the Deaf community, with a unique language – sign – and culture. Sign language is complex and complete with its own syntax, grammar and vocabulary. These deaf people do not think of their hearing loss as a disability. ...READ MORE: http://www.examiner.com/article/deaf-people-with-mental-illness-need-culturally-sensitive-treatment

Medical Research: Dual Adaptation in Deaf Brains

The Scientist: Dual Adaptation in Deaf Brains.



The brains of people who cannot hear adapt to process vision-based language, in addition to brain changes associated with the loss of auditory input.



The brains of Deaf people reorganize not only to compensate for the loss of hearing, but also to process language from visual stimuli sign language, according to a study published today (February 12) in Nature Communications. Despite this reorganization for interpreting visual language, however, language processing is still completed in the same brain region.



“The new paper really dissected the difference between hand movements being a visual stimulus, and cognitive components of language,” said Alex Meredith, a neurobiologist at Virginia Commonwealth University, who was not involved in the study.



The brain devotes different areas to interpreting various sensory stimuli, such as visual or auditory. When one sense is lost, the brain compensates by adapting to other stimuli, explained study author Velia Cardin of University College London and Linköping University in Sweden. In Deaf people, for example, “the part of the brain that before was doing audition adapts to be doing something else, which is vision and somatosensation,” she said. However, Deaf humans “don’t just have sensory deprivation,” she added they also have to learn to process a visual, rather than oral, language.



To untangle brain changes due to loss of auditory input from adaptations prompted by vision-based language, the researchers used functional MRI to look at brain activation in three groups of people: Deaf people who communicate through sign language, Deaf people who read lips but don’t understand sign language, and hearing people with no sign language experience.



The researchers showed the three groups videos of sign language and videos that held no linguistic content. The signing videos were designed to allow Cardin’s team to pinpoint which areas had reorganized to process vision-based language, as these areas would only activate in Deaf signers. In contrast, the language-free videos would allow the researchers to identify areas in Deaf brains that had adapted to the loss of auditory input, as these brain areas would activate in both Deaf groups, but not in the brains of hearing volunteers. ... Read more: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/34363/title/Dual-Adaptation-in-Deaf-Brains/

Deaf Awareness: Deaf To The Image

VIDEO: 'Deaf to the image' Documentary film - 70min et 54min - 1995. Emmanuelle Laborit talks about her Deaf identity and her vocation to be an actress, alongside this, French and German Deaf artists evoke their resistance through creation.



Scenario: Jeanne Soral et Brigitte Lemaine. Available with english or german subtitles.

Video by QuadraFilmCoalition



Produced by: Bayerischer Rundfunk / Deutsche Welle TV / Centre Pompidou.

Distributed by: CNRS Images.

Festivals: Berlin, Vancouver, Lille.

Prizes & Awards: Festival de Bruxelles.

Broadcasting: Planète, RTBF, TSR, Duna TV, Canal Vie.

Camera: François Ede, Steven Gruen, Christian Dransfeld.

Sound: Julien Cloquet, André Rigaut, Andy Buclow.

Editing: Agnès Molinard.

Music: L.V. Beethoven.



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Population of Deaf People Worldwide

Video: Population of Deaf People Worldwide.



Density of Deaf people worldwide version (HD) - Deafness worldwide selected estimated figures. Timing is improved, but the stats are still a bit mixed. They are accurate, averages from the last 20 years (where possible). This was produced in after effects, the globe is own creation having sourced the original flat map from NASAs image library.

Video by TheDeesunset



The slightly lame cloud effect is simple fractal noise on a background layer, with feathered masking to contain it. Also 3D'd the text boxes.

Deaf People May Have Trouble Reading: Health Report

Video: A new reason for why the Deaf may have trouble reading, Health Report.



Deaf people may have no trouble communicating words through American Sign Language, or ASL. But studies of ASL users show that the average Deaf adult reads at the level of a nine-year-old.



The explanation has always been that this is because they never learned to connect letters with sounds. But a recent study shows that Deaf readers are just like other people learning to read in a second language. Linguist Jill Morford led the study. She says: "The assumption has always been that the problems with reading were educational issues with what's the right way to teach reading when you can't associate sounds with letters. But what we're finding is that all this time we've been ignoring the fact that they're actually learning a new language."



Ms. Morford is a professor at the University of New Mexico and part of a research center at Gallaudet University in Washington. Most students at Gallaudet are Deaf, the center studies how Deaf people learn and use language. Professor Morford says signers are like English learners whose first language uses a different alphabet. She says: "Anyone who has a first language that has a written system that's very different than English, like Arabic or Chinese or Russian, knows that learning to recognize and understand words in English is much more challenging than if you already speak a language that uses the same orthography. "The orthography is the written system and spelling of a language. Of course, with signers, their first language has no written system at all, just hand gestures.

Gallaudet professor Thomas Allen explains what effect this has on reading. He says: "There's a silent hearing going on ... when a hearing person reads a word. When a deaf person reads a word, there's not. They see the word and there's some kind of an orthographic representation. And some of the research in our center has shown that when Deaf readers read an English word, it activates their sign representations of those words." Signers can face the same problems as other bilingual people. Their brains have to choose between two languages all the time. Take the words "paper" and "movie." Their spelling and meaning are not at all similar. But, as Professor Allen points out, the signs for them are. To make the sign for paper," he says, "you hold one hand flat and you just lightly tap it with a flat palm on the other hand, and you do that a couple times and that means paper." Movie is very similar, except the other hand "lightly moves back and forth as if it were a flickering image on a screen."



The study appears in the journal Cognition. For VOA Special English, I'm Alex Villareal. This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com.

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Critical Interrogation of Karl White's Speech

Video: Critical Interrogation of Karl White's speech at TEDxUSU. (December 2012)



A Critical Interrogation of Karl White's presentation at TEDxUSU: Establishing a sound foundation for children who are deaf or hard of hearing as seen on http://youtu.be/bfN1RPVuzl0.



Anyone with some level of familiarity with Deaf people will agree that there are some deep philosophical differences in how we interact with, work with, and approach Deaf children.



As such anyone who purports to be an authority on Deaf people has an ethical responsibility to be transparent.



We find it disturbing that individuals such as Karl White continue to blatantly abuse their position by misleading the general public about Deaf people, languages, and medical intervention. This is done through intentional framing, through omission of facts, and through giving appearances of neutrality when in fact bias is present.

Here we discuss some of the things we noted and/or have questions about regarding his recent presentation at TEDxUSU (published on December 5, 2012).



English version posted alongside video at FE: Butterfly Effect on Facebook. If you want a copy of the english transcript, contact us at facundoelement@gmail.com and we'll send it to you. Visit http://www.facundoelement.com for more information. Subscribe Facundo Element Videos



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How To Hypnotize A Deaf Person

Vancouver - Video: How to hypnotize a Deaf person. This is kind of funny, but it's a genuinely effective method used to hypnotise people who are completely Deaf. Turn it up. Anyway it's real and t does actually work.



Just as a count down works with progression, or a relaxation verbal induction takes the person progressively through a process, so does the light electric pulsing of the Csta. It gives a light shock that slows down and gently takes the person into a form of trance. Visit http://www.FreeHypnosisTrainingOnline.com for more information.

Video by Rob Hadley

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Hypnosis on Deaf People! Yes Or Fake?

Yes, we CAN hypnotize a consenting Deaf person.

Video by ChandaMijaAuthentic

Deaf Community Affected By Teletext Closure

AUCKLAND - New Zealand’s Deaf community will be greatly affected by Television New Zealand’s decision to drop its Teletext magazine service. The service, which was introduced in 1984 primarily to supply Deaf people with greater access to news and information, will be disbanded.



New Zealand’s Deaf community will be greatly affected by TVNZ’s decision to drop its Teletext magazine service. The service, which was introduced in 1984 primarily to supply Deaf people with greater access to news and information, will be disbanded by TVNZ early next year.



Deaf Aotearoa Chief Executive Lachlan Keating says the decision is a disappointing one for the Deaf community, especially the older members who regularly use Teletext.



“Over one-third of the Deaf community either doesn’t have or doesn’t receive good internet access, so relies on Teletext to remain up-to-date with news and other essential information from throughout the country,” says Mr Keating.



“They also use the service to access the Deaf pages, which provide information on relevant events and activities.” Mr Keating says TVNZ has stated that it will work with special interest groups affected by this change.



“On behalf of the Deaf community, Deaf Aotearoa is keen to build a stronger relationship with TVNZ to ensure that Deaf people throughout the country have reliable and easy access to news and information.” Read more: http://business.scoop.co.nz/2012/12/14/deaf-community-affected-by-teletext-closure/



Source: business.scoop.co.nz



Related News: http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/teletext-service-end-next-year-5291541

The Deaf Community - Short Film

The Deaf Community - Short film with ASL/Captioned. The Deaf Community by Joanna Gao Macaulay Arts Seminar Fall 2012.

Video by joannaxd

Oralism - Short Film

Oralism - Short Film with subtitled.



A short film about oralism when sign language first came to be and the actions people took on how to "fix" the Deaf persons.

Communication Barriers In Sex Education Put Deaf People At Risk

LONDON (The Guardian) - Communication barriers in sex education put Deaf people at risk.



A lack of resources in sex education for young, Deaf people is leaving many without the knowledge or skills to keep safe and recognise healthy sexual relationships.



There is a telling moment in a documentary called Snapshot: Dicing with Sex when a group of young Deaf people are shown cards with different words on them. They all instantly recognise the words Facebook, Wii and YouTube, but the words syphilis, genital warts and hepatitis ABC are met with blank expressions.



Broadcast in sign language on digital TV in 2010, the documentary revealed a remarkably uninformed attitude to sex, with several young Deaf people saying they preferred not to use condoms, despite experiencing sexually transmitted infection (STIs) or pregnancy.



The charity Deafax says Deaf people's lives are being put at "extreme risk" when it comes to sex education because their communication needs are not being addressed.



A survey for the charity's Education & Advice on Relationships & Sex  (Ears) campaign found 35% of Deaf people received no sex education at all while at school. Everyone else surveyed – 65% of respondents – said that what information they did get was inaccessible. Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/dec/05/sex-education-communication-deaf-people-risk



Author by Charlie Swinbourne

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Visit: The UK's independent Deaf news and views website! Lays eggs every weekday morning: http://limpingchicken.com

The Jeff Probst Show Interviews Marlee Matlin

The video clips of Jeff Probst interview with Marlee Matlin on The Jeff Probst Show.



Oscar winner Marlee Matlin, and Jeff Probst discuss how to appropriately talk to - and talk about - Deaf people, and Marlee confesses to moments when being Deaf has come to her advantage.

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Don't Mix Up Your Signs!



Jeff Probst uses Marlee Matlin's new app, Marlee Signs, to try saying a single phrase in sign language. But Marlee has a warning for Jeff: if you alter the sign just slightly, you'll be saying something completely different and probably inappropriate!

Video by jeffprobstTV

Deaf Police Officers Fight Crime

OAXACA, MX. – Deaf police officers fight crime in Oaxaca. The officers, known as ‘Angels of Silence,’ contribute to keeping the city safe with their heightened vision and ability to read lips.



The 230 surveillance cameras that monitor the streets of the historic downtown area of Oaxaca – a southeastern city that was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987 – are watched by Deaf police officers who maintain a close eye.



The Oaxaca Police’s Command and Communication Control Center (C4) was reopened in May after chronic maintenance problems had kept it closed for six years. But since the surveillance cameras do not have microphones, the authorities had been unable to determine what was being said by suspected criminals.



So officials turned to State Association for the Deaf to provide personnel with a keen sense of sight and ability to read lips, said Ignacio Villalobos Carranza, deputy secretary for Information and Institutional Development at the Public Safety Secretariat of Oaxaca.



The move has enabled the C4’s Deaf police officers to help prevent crime and assist officers on the streets to apprehend suspects, making the downtown area – a major tourism attraction – safer.



“The first advantage the [Deaf police officers] provide is that they can read lips,” Villalobos Carranza said. “The second advantage is because the Deaf police officers have developed an acute sense of sight – they can see better than most people.”... Read more http://infosurhoy.com/cocoon/saii/xhtml/en_GB/features/saii/features/main/2012/10/19/feature-01



As seen on article: Deaf Police To Monitor Security Cameras

Language They Speak, The (1960s)

Language They Speak, The (1960s) Documentary Film.



Talks about how the Deaf are capable data processing / computer employees.



Casts: The Girl: Harriet Herman. The Boy: David Machin. Photography: Jules Sindic. Music: Charles Morrow. Technical Advisors: WIlliam C. Hill (Maryland Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation) and Ed Waters. Other Students: Terry Ann Blumenthal, Woodrow Putman.



Help us get more films like this online! This film was digitized and uploaded by the A/V Geeks thanks to contributions to this project: http://www.avgeeks.com/wp2/avgeeks100miles

Video by theavgeeks

Frontrunners - Deafhood & Culture

VIDEO: (Captioned) - Second Fortnight of Frontrunners 8.



Drisana Levitzke-Gray presenting a vlog about Deaf Culture, History, Sign language, and Mother Languages. Paddy Ladd, himself is very passionite about Deaf history, which was the center of the rare world where he evolved an intelligent discussion of academic world known as "Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood" who dwelled critical findings in the caves of Deaf people. Visit http://fr8.frontrunners.dk for more information. Subscribe Frontrunners8 Vlogs: Frontrunners8

Video by Drizzy28



The Deaf Odyssey of Drisana. Drisana Levitzke-Gray will be presenting about her time during the World Federation of the Deaf Youth Camp and the World Federation Deaf Congress in Durban, South Africa in 2012. She will also give you a little insight into her involvement in Frontrunners which is an International Leadership Training Programme located in Denmark, Europe. Visit http://www.drisanalg.com for more information.

NBC's "The Doctors" Shines A Spotlight On Dogs for the Deaf

NBC's "The Doctors" Shines A Spotlight On Dogs for the Deaf - Oct 5th, 2012.



A Southern Oregon non-profit showed a national TV audience just how much it is making a difference in people's lives today. This as Central Point's Dogs for the Deaf was invited to be a special guest on NBC's syndicated show, "The Doctors." NBC5's Laura Cavanaugh reports. The Rogue Valley's own Carrie Brooks took center stage in front of a national television audience Thursday on the set of NBC's "The Doctors." The certified dog trainer demonstrated how highly trained dogs, like Bonsai, help work sounds for those with hearing loss.



Brooks, along with Oscar-winning actress, Marlee Matlin, sang the praises of Southern Oregon's Dogs for the Deaf... Read more: http://www.kobi5.com/component/zoo/item/nbc-s-the-doctors-shines-a-spotlight-on-dogs-for-the-deaf.html



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Aidan Mack Hosts Talk Show For The Deaf

Westchester Newsday - Croton woman hosts talk show for the Deaf.



Television is a visual medium, but most talk shows just aren’t the same on mute. One Croton-on-Hudson woman is turning the traditional interview format on its head by telling her guests to talk with their hands.



Independent producer Aidan Mack has teamed up with White Plains Community Media (WPCM) to produce “The Aidan Mack Show,” in which Mack interviews guests exclusively in American Sign Language. The show will be one of the first of its kind designed specifically for Deaf audiences.



“I realized that I wanted to reach a larger audience, the hearing community, and work with them to become more comfortable interacting with Deaf people, regardless of language differences,” she said. “At the same time, I also want to dispel the misconceptions and myths about Deaf people, and show that Deaf people do live normal lives like everyone else.”



Read more: http://newyork.newsday.com/westchester/westchester-now-1.3784383/croton-woman-hosts-talk-show-for-the-deaf-1.4037650



The Aidan Mack Show:

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The Trajectory of Change: Deafhood and Social Activism

The Trajectory of Change: Deafhood and Social Activism in American Sign Language.



In this vlog, many years ago, my world was flat along with zero tolerance in accepting my identity as state of being Deaf and ignore Deaf world knowledge. Paddy Ladd was the center of the rare world where he evolved an intelligent discussion of academic world known as "Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood" who dwelled critical findings in the caves of Deaf people.



Once departing the cave, his work made my eyes see the thunder and observed lighting strike the cave, stealing it forever, delivering the message.



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Rochester's Deaf Population Among Largest Per Capita in U.S.

ROCHESTER, NY. - Rochester has more Deaf and Hard of Hearing residents per capita than the national average and a larger Deaf population than many other similarly sized cities, a new report out of Rochester Institute of Technology has found.



Rochester’s sizable Deaf community has often been assumed but was never quantified until the report, written by Gerard Walter and Richard Dirmyer from RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf.



The study found other cities have more total Deaf residents per capita, but among college and working aged people, Rochester has one of the largest populations in the country. In particular, the study found Rochester has far and away the highest percentage of Deaf residents enrolled in secondary education, likely driven by NTID.



“Often times it’s difficult to understand how many people are really in the community,” said Thomas Pearson, director of the National Center for Deaf Health Research at the University of Rochester. “This has been a real challenge for anyone interested in the field.”



Using American Community Survey data, Walter and Dirmyer found there are 43,000 Deaf or Hard of Hearing residents in the Rochester metro area, about 3.7 percent of the population. That’s higher than the national average, which is 3.5 percent.



Rochester doesn’t have the highest population per capita as is often suggested, however. The report only looked at a handful of cities, but found 3.9 percent of Pittsburgh’s population is Deaf or Hard of Hearing. The authors of the report attribute that to more elderly residents living in Pittsburgh than in Rochester, and the onset of age-related deafness.



Read more: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120925/NEWS01/309250048/Rochester-Institute-of-Technology-deaf?odyssey=nav|head



Related News - Wham ABC: http://www.13wham.com/news/local/story/Study-Rochester-Has-Largest-Deaf-Community/NIohNf_5HkSnV30z7zDwdg.cspx



RIT-NTID News: http://www.ntid.rit.edu/news/rochester-areas-deaf-population-better-defined



RocWiki blog: http://rocwiki.org/Deaf_Community

Black American Sign Language and American Sign Language Are Different Languages

THE WASHINTON POST - Sign language that African Americans use is different from that of Whites.



Carolyn McCaskill remembers exactly when she discovered that she couldn’t understand white people. It was 1968, she was 15 years old, and she and nine other Deaf black students had just enrolled in an integrated school for the Deaf in Talledega, Ala.



When the teacher got up to address the class, McCaskill was lost. “I was dumbfounded,” McCaskill recalls through an interpreter. “I was like, ‘What in the world is going on?’ ”



The teacher’s quicksilver hand movements looked little like the sign language McCaskill had grown up using at home with her two Deaf siblings and had practiced at the Alabama School for the Negro Deaf and Blind, just a few miles away. It wasn’t a simple matter of people at the new school using unfamiliar vocabularly; they made hand movements for everyday words that looked foreign to McCaskill and her fellow black students.



So, McCaskill says, “I put my signs aside.” She learned entirely new signs for such common nouns as “shoe” and “school.” She began to communicate words such as “why” and “don’t know” with one hand instead of two as she and her black friends had always done. She copied the white students who lowered their hands to make the signs for “what for” and “know” closer to their chins than to their foreheads. And she imitated the way white students mouthed words at the same time as they made manual signs for them.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/sign-language-that-african-americans-use-is-different-from-that-of-whites/2012/09/17/2e897628-bbe2-11e1-8867-ecf6cb7935ef_story.html



Sources: www.washingtonpost.com