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Fall 2010 Issue
Opening Lines
A new face at Deafness Research Foundation? Well, yes and no. The face you see to the left is mine and it's hardly new actually, it's been behind the scenes of these pages for the past nine years. ... Read More »
4TH Annual Trends Holiday Gift Guide
The holidays are around the corner, and even if the goose is a bit lean this year, most will be eager to give generously to family and friends especially if a well-chosen present can help facilitate ... Read More »
EDUCATION: Just How Accommodating Does it Need to Be?
Jeffrey Petty is only seven years old, but his story began 16 years ago, in 1994. At that time, Katie Murch was a deaf student in Flour Bluff, a suburb of Corpus Christi, Texas. Katie sought to be ... Read More »
EDUCATION: The Process of Due Process
Because the resources that children receiving special education services require are often either hard to find or involve signifi cant cost, parents and other advocates can find themselves having to ... Read More »
DRF Centerstage
Boidman Named DRF Executive Director
Deafness Research Foundation (DRF), announced on July 1 that Andrea Boidman has been unanimously promoted to executive ... Read More »
Adolescent Hearing Loss on the Rise
Josef Shargorodsky, M.D., and colleagues analyzed data from the annual National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and compared the record of the softest sounds that could be heard by American 12- ... Read More »
Meningitis: A Deafening Disease
Hearing loss stems from a variety of sources, including age, genetics, embryologic development, infection and trauma. Congenital hearing ... Read More »
I See What You’re Saying
You pick up your remote to turn on the TV and do a little channel-surfing. For many people with hearing loss, this is also the time to ... Read More »
What About Speech Recognition Technology?
The cost of implementing systems such as CART, CPrint, Typewell and automatic speech recognition can be significant, as they require one ... Read More »
The Secret of Architectural Acoustics Revealed
Have you ever noticed that your radio seems awfully loud when you stop your car after listening on the highway? ... Read More »