Posts Tagged: Iran

Study: Early Sign Helps Implant Users

A new study finds "encouraging deaf children to communicate in sign language from a very early age, before cochlear implantation, appears to improve their ability to learn spoken language after cochlear implantation." Researchers out of Iran compared the spoken language progress of cochlear-implanted children with deaf parents to deaf children with "normal-hearing parents." They found the second-generation deaf children (the deaf children of deaf parents) exceeded the deaf children with hearing parents. Read more here.

BSL in Iran

A BSL teacher volunteers to teach in Iran. Read the story from the BBC here.

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Stabbing at Deaf Event

A man was stabbed at the closing ceremony of a international indoor soccer-type sporting event in Sweden yesterday. The World Deaf Futsal Championship, sponsored by the Swedish Deaf Sports Federation, had just ended. After the players from Iran were given gold medals for winning the tournament, an apparent supporter of the Iranian team was attacked in the hallway outside where the ceremony was taking place. The victim was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. The event involved 16 men's teams and 11 women's teams from around the world. You can see photos of the event here.
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