Hearing Impairment

Regal to let deaf moviegoers see what they've been missing

2013-05-07 05:00:00

Raymond Smith Jr. has been trying for nearly two decades to make the movie industry listen to the needs of the deaf and hard of hearing. This month, the senior executive at Regal Entertainment Group will come closer to his goal. His company, the...

Bionic eye maker has vision of the future

2013-04-27 10:14:00

Robert Greenberg got tired of hearing from senior engineers that it wasn't possible to build his product idea: a bionic eye that gives sight to the blind. "A lot of the folks straight out of school didn't know any better, so I hired them instead,"...

Hearing impairment doesn't stop these hockey players

2013-03-28 18:55:00

Trey Wilson can't hear the crowd applaud when he scores a goal, and he has scored quite a few since he discovered hockey was a perfect outlet for his energy. The 25-year-old left wing from Riverside was born deaf, which means he can't hear the crunch of...

For 'Tribes,' a bit of understudy musical chairs

2013-04-09 11:22:00

Audiences who attended Sunday's performance of "Tribes," Nina Raine's play currently running at the Mark Taper Forum, were able to witness a rare bit of understudy musical chairs. Center Theatre Group said actress Gayle Rankin, who played the the role...

'Tribes' star Russell Harvard talks deaf community culture

2013-04-07 08:30:00

Russell Harvard plays the deaf brother in a dysfunctional family in "Tribes" at the Mark Taper Forum through April 14. The Austin, Texas-based actor, who won a Drama League Award for the role off-Broadway, will move with the production to the La Jolla...

Review: 'Tribes' will be heard — and felt

2013-03-11 19:30:00

In the intellectually raucous British household of Nina Raine's "Tribes," family members don't so much talk as assault each other with monologues. The dinner table cacophony consists of scraps of debate, ironic jabs, aesthetic proclamations, academic...

'Tribes' uncovers a dysfunction both silent and spoken

2013-03-07 17:58:00

In the play "Tribes," a young deaf man with a boisterous, hearing family learns something from a new girlfriend that his parents and siblings never bothered to teach him: how to sign. He had always been expected to keep up with them by reading lips....

'Switched at Birth' airs groundbreaking episode tonight

2013-03-04 16:28:00

ABC Family will make history tonight, airing an episode of “Switched at Birth” completely in American Sign Language, with subtitles for hearing viewers. It's something the network says has never been done before on scripted, mainstream...

Hearing loss partially reversed in noise-damaged ears of mice

2013-01-10 13:30:00

Anyone who’s gone to too many rock concerts or worked with loud machinery for too long �(or listened to too many kazillion-decibel advertisements at a movie theater) may eventually pay the price: hearing loss caused by damage to tiny, sound-...

Hearing loss, cognitive decline associated in older people, study says

2013-01-23 16:36:00

Hearing loss among older adults appears to be associated with faster cognitive decline than people without hearing loss, researchers found. The study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine on Monday suggests that, on average, individuals with...

Young children should have hearing tested more frequently: study

2013-01-15 13:45:00

Parul Bhatia, a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, remembers the patient well.� The girl was 3 years old and profoundly deaf. Even though she had failed a hearing test at birth, she hadn’t been treated for hearing loss....

Dr. William F. House dies at 89; championed cochlear implant

2012-12-12 16:13:00

Dr. William F. House, a dentist-turned-ear specialist who 50 years ago defied the medical establishment and many advocates for the hearing impaired to champion an implantable device, now widely accepted, that made everyday sounds audible to the profoundly...

Tony Tokhian, center, communicates with sign language to his fellow classmates during the first Armenian and hearing impaired community academy class graduation ceremony, which took place at the Burbank Police Department on Wednesday, February 27, 2013.

2013-02-27 00:00:00

"Human/Need/Desire" Bay throws an Anti-Valentine's Day party, inviting both her hearing and deaf friends, which leads to a heated confrontation between Noah and Travis. Angelo and Lana call a truce long enough to chaperone the event.

2013-02-09 10:52:00

Lilli was born "profoundly deaf ," meaning she cannot hear anything at all. She's a presenter for "See Hear," a BBC show for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers.

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