Medically reviewed by Sukaina Hasnie MD Deafness (profound hearing loss) is a condition where a person can't hear anything or may only hear very loud sounds in one or both ears. Hearing loss that can ...

In the 1930s and '40s, the husband-and-wife team of Fritz and Grace Heider conducted educational research at the Clarke School for the Deaf in Massachusetts. Although schools for the deaf had been ...

The trope has changed since 1967's "Wait Until Dark," as movies like "Hush" and "A Quiet Place" pushed the narrative. To an able-bodied audience, removing a sense is inherently terrifying, and that’s ...

Victor de Andrade received financial assistance from the University of the Witwatersrand for his PhD. He is affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand, his place of employment, as well as ...

Clinical research conducted in the Department of Communication Disorders at the University of Haifa revealed that some children who are born deaf "recover" from their deafness and do not require ...

The infamous little blue pill that keeps men up and at ’em may improve a different kind of hardness — hardness of hearing, that is. A new study reports that Viagra has the potential to reverse a ...

A new study presents an innovative treatment for deafness, based on the delivery of genetic material into the cells of the inner ear. The genetic material 'replaces' the genetic defect and enables the ...

Twelve years after filmmaker Irene Taylor Broadsky documented her how her parents live with deafness in the Peabody-winning documentary Hear And Now, she returns to her family for her new documentary.

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