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Doctors work to identify, treat hearing loss in young children
Fisher Garver is just like one of the three million other children under 18 who are living with some form of hearing loss. Doctors are now working to identify and treat hearing loss in infants. There are a number of risk factors which could put a child'...
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Research on sound, neural processing could help deaf people hear
Purdue University News ServiceA new understanding about how the inner ear processes the temporal structure of sound could some day improve how prosthetic hearing devices are designed to help people with profound hearing loss hear better in noisy places, according to new Purdue...Tags: Health, Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research, Science and Technology
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Doctors recommend regular hearing checkups for children
Before Morgan Joseph, 5, heads off to kindergarten she has an important test to pass: a hearing test. She failed an initial exam at her pediatrician's office and was referred to an audiologist. "We will look at, not only the ear itself, but we'll...Tags: Children, Education, Schools, Preschools
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Vitamins may prevent hearing loss
Vitamins maybe the key to preventing hearing loss. New research from the University of Michigan shows that some vitamins and minerals may protect people from hearing loss caused by loud noise. Researchers gave pigs a combination of vitamins A, C, E,...Tags: University of Michigan, Vitamin Therapy, Dietary Supplements, Education
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Blind Ball State grad has bright future ahead
Fox59Ball State University is known for going to great lengths to accommodate students with disabilities. One of the 600 on campus this year will leave a lasting legacy when he graduates. R.J. Crace is blind and severely hearing impaired. "I have prosthetic...Tags: Education, Colleges and Universities
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Sergio Kindle: 'I haven't proven anything yet'
Two years after the Ravens selected him in the second round of the 2010 NFL draft, linebacker Sergio Kindle has yet to make a start, a tackle or a significant impact on the team’s fortunes. An opportunity has presented itself to Kindle in the...
Tags: Health, NFL Draft, National Football League, Eric DeCosta, Sergio Kindle
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Fein: Tuned out
Florida Jewish JournalJust about wherever I go these days, or so it seems, I encounter 20-somethings who have tuned out of Israel. I know that there's a difference between anecdotes and evidence, but when an unrelieved series of uninvited anecdotes all point in the same...Tags: Public Finance, Music, Judaism, Politics, Entertainment
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Gifts of language continue in 'Cyrano'
Nearly a decade ago, an improbable dream came true for Deaf West Theatre and its founder, Ed Waterstreet. The small, L.A.-based company went to Broadway with its signed and spoken version of the musical "Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."...
Tags: Kirk Douglas, Starbucks Corp., Edmond Rostand, Music, Celebrities
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New Start For Old Building Housing Renowned School For The Deaf
The American School for the Deaf had to face reality. Its majestic old building was rundown and unsafe. That was in 1921. For a century before that, the school, then the American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, had been located on eponymous Asylum Avenue,...Tags: Students, Hartford Financial Services Group Incorporated, Education, Teaching and Learning, American School for the Deaf
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Stanford student among Kentucky School for the Deaf 2012 graduates
smojica@amnews.comThough the 13 members of the Kentucky School for the Deaf Class of 2012 originally hail from different parts of the state, their close bond was evident during Friday’s graduation ceremony. Spirits were high as students, teachers, family members and...Tags: Students, Education, Teaching and Learning
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More Navy ship testing likely off South Florida coast
The Navy's testing range off Fort Lauderdale, where surfacing submarines have surprised boaters for years, will see new types of warships and more activity under a plan for more testing and training along the Atlantic coast. Although it's unclear exactly...
Tags: Wildlife, Health, Environmental Issues, Science, Gerald Ford
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On the Town: Elvis and Marilyn come to party
While many Burbankers are aware that Elvis Presley rehearsed and recorded at Burbank's NBC Sound Studios back in 1968, far fewer know that for a short time in 1947, Marilyn Monroe was a Burbank resident living on South Avon Street. These two cultural...
Tags: Elvis Presley, NBC (tv network), Cartoon Network (tv network), The Walt Disney Co., Aaliyah
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