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White House Honors Researcher
A deaf IBM researcher was among 14 people honored by the White House for his work this month. Dr. Dimitri Kanevsky is a research staff member in the Speech and Language Algorithms Department where he developed the first Russian automatic speech. The White House ceremony honoring him was a celebration of those "leading the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math for people with disabilities. A video from the White House explains more below on DeafNewsToday.com and if you'd like to read an interview with Dr. Kanevsky, go here.
Deaf-Blind Glove
A new glove is designed to help the deaf/blind communication. The Mobile Lorm Glove was put together by Berlin's Design Research Lab. It translates text into the Deafblind Manual alphabet called Lorm that's a tactile signing style still used in Europe. The glove facilitates texting, using email and online chat. Here's a video about the glove.Read More at DeafNewsToday.com
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Gally Opens new Research Lab
Gallaudet University has opened a new brain and language laboratory. The facility is designed to study how people learn and share language. Director Laura-Ann Petitto, a cognitive and developmental neuroscientist, says the goal of the lab, dubbed BL2, is "to investigate new scientific questions and to make significant discoveries in the fields of cognitive neuroscience and children's language development." BL2 includes one of the world's most advanced brain imaging systems. The fNIRS can track the movement of blood in the brain of someone as the person reacts to various stimuli.
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Gene Research
Researchers say they have located two proteins directly linked to the inner ear's ability to receive sound and send it to the brain. The breakthrough is another step toward the development of gene therapy for some types of deafness. The federally-funded research is focused on TMC1 and TMC2, inner ear proteins believed to be essential for hearing. The team that published the findings were led by scientists from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders at NIH and Harvard Medical School's Children's Hospital. Details are in the online issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation here.
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The Visual Learning Summit
A first-of-its-kind conference set for this Friday and Saturday will address the challenges faced by deaf children who are learning to read. The University of California at Davis summit is co-sponsored by Gallaudet University’s Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual Learning along with the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain and the departments of psychology and linguistics at the school. Hearing children learn to read by sounding out words, but deaf children have to do the same thing without that help. The organizers of the Visual Learning Summit believe growing up in a primarily visual world impacts language, memory and attention. Not only are there questions about how to best educate deaf children, there is a great deal for the hearing to learn from visually oriented learners. Speakers include Laura-Ann Petitto of Gallaudet University and Carol Padden from UC San Diego. For more click here.
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The Deaf Brain
Read about Unlocking the Secrets of the Deaf Brain based on research at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf here.
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Deaf Ancestors?
We may have come from deaf ancestors. That's the implication of a new study out of Denmark. A University of Southern Denmark research group studied the lungfish. These are the closest living relatives to the tetrapods, which are associated with the water-to-land transition. It turns out they are not sensitive to sound pressure, but sensitive to vibrations. Scientists say the tympanic ear for hearing didn't develop until the Triassic Age, more than 100 million years after the origin of tetrapods. Details are in the online journal Biology Letters.
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