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Showing posts with label Deaf Facts. Show all posts
VIDEO [CC] - hearing people can't focus on more than one thing at a time.



Why focusing on a visual task will make us Deaf to our surroundings. "Examination of hearing people's ability to detect sounds during the visual demanding task also showed a higher rate of failures to detect sounds, even though the sounds were clearly audible and hearing people did detect them when the visual task was easy."



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Concentrating attention on a visual task can render you momentarily 'Deaf' to sounds at normal levels, reports a new UCL study funded by the Wellcome Trust... Read The Full Article



Visual perceptual load induces inattentional deafness. "A wealth of research has suggested that the extent to which focused attention on a task results in reduced perception of irrelevant information depends on the level of perceptual load in the task." Read The Full Article



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VIDEO: [ASL] - Believe it or not...



There are over 70 million Deaf people in the world. Many of them are either Deaf from birth or became Deaf before learning the spoken language.



This fact has serious implications for the education of Deaf people. To be Deaf means to not hear or comprehend speech and language through the ear.



Communication for a person who cannot hear is visual, not auditory. To deny sign language to Deaf people is tantamount to denying them their basic human rights to communication and education.







Video Description/ English Summary: The video has two points, (1) that the World Federation of the Deaf estimates that 80% of Deaf people do not receive any education at all. (2) How does this make you feel? Isn't this a shocking, disgusting, and infuriating statistic? So what do you plan to do about it?



1 - "80% of Deaf people do not receive any education at all." If you have your Paddy Ladd's "Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood" near you, grab it and flip to page 44. Alternatively, at the end of this very paragraph there's a link that will take you to the WFD article that the citation in the book is from: http://wfdeaf.org/databank/policies/policy-visions-and-goals-for-access-to-adult-education-for-deaf-people



2 - "There are over 70 Million Deaf People in the World." http://wfdeaf.org/faq
VIDEO: [CC] - Deaf Can! Educate hearing people how to communicating with Deaf people.



Talking about Deafness, Deaf Life, Advocate and Do's and Don'ts in certain situations. Here is a video of questions hearing person get due to being Deaf.



Hope you learn a few new things and think twice when communicating with a Deaf and Hard of Hearing person.



We are capable of doing anything/everything like a hearing person can, we just can't hear. Some of the questions are quite funny though, not going to lie.





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VIDEO: Density of Deaf People Worldwide Version (HD) - Deafness worldwide selected estimated figures.



Timing is improved, but the stats are still a bit mixed. They are accurate, averages from the last 20 years (where possible). This was produced in After Effects, the globe is own creation having sourced the original flat map from NASAs image library.





The slightly lame cloud effect is simple fractal noise on a background layer, with feathered masking to contain it. Also 3D'd the text boxes.



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