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gorilla’s use facial expressions and mouth movements were controlled by the left side of the brain – just like it is in humans.

Gorillas and humans use similar body language to communicate | Mail Online

Several genes that play a role in how our body’s cells normally auto-destruct may play a role in age-related hearing loss

Genes That Control Cell Death Fingered In Age-related Hearing Loss

how our visual system helps us to interpret the intent conveyed in subtle body movements. [Get some deaf people involved, I'd say]

Connections Between Vision And Movement, As They Relate To Perceived Threats, Autism

A new mood is taking hold of Britain’s deaf people.

Deaf issue | Life and style | guardian.co.uk

Sam Wollaston spends 24 hours with a deaf family – meal times, school run, play and discipline

Sam Wollaston: Welcome to silence | Life and style | The Guardian

Girls who don’t share a common language may have more difficulty adjusting socially than boys, according to surprising new Michigan State University research looking at language acquisition among young children.

Girls Have Harder Time Than Boys Adjusting In Language-learning Environment, Study Finds

The number of hearing impaired infants and toddlers who are successfully aided by technological devices, such as hearing aids and cochlear implants, continues to grow, but there are still unknowns about these children’s speaking abilities

New Tool To Assess Speech Development In Infants, Toddlers With Hearing Impairments

Eight-year-old children have a radically different learning strategy from twelve-year-olds and adults. Eight-year-olds learn primarily from positive feedback (‘Well done!’), whereas negative feedback (‘Got it wrong this time’) scarcely causes any alarm bells to ring. Twelve-year-olds are better able to process negative feedback, and use it to learn from their mistakes. Adults do the same, but more efficiently. [...] In children of eight and nine, these areas of the brain react strongly to positive feedback and scarcely respond at all to negative feedback. But in children of 12 and 13, and also in adults, the opposite is the case. Their ‘control centres’ in the brain are more strongly activated by negative feedback and much less by positive feedback. [...]

Is that difference between eight- and twelve-year-olds the result of experience, or does it have to do with the way the brain develops? As yet, nobody has the answer. ‘This kind of brain research has only been possible for the last ten years or so,’ says Crone, ‘and there are a lot more questions which have to be answered. But it is probably a combination of the brain maturing and experience.’ There is also an area of the brain that responds strongly to positive feedback: the basal ganglia, just outside the cerebral cortex. The activity of this area of the brain does not change. It remains active in all age groups: in adults, but also in children, both eight-year-olds and twelve-year-olds.

[Article continues at link. This information touches on so much of interest to me. I work in public schools and so I am around children of these ages. My job in public schools is that of a sign language interpreter. What might it mean if Deaf children get little linguistic feedback as they develop because their parents don't sign with them and neither do most of their peers? I also have a strong interest in evidence for and against the claim that behavior and consciousness have biological roots. I have many questions and few answers, so I think I'm learning. - Trevor Blake]

We are a local signing community of Deaf and Hearing people along with Allies who rely on community engagement and support to fulfill our mission.

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Children who are bilingual before the age of 5 are significantly more likely to stutter and to find it harder to lose their impediment, than children who speak only one language before this age

Bilingual Children More Likely To Stutter

Having a child with a disability takes a toll on parents’ mental and physical health, yet new research suggests that, over time, parents learn to adapt to the challenges of caring for a disabled child. As these parents age, the study shows, their health more closely mirrors the health of parents with children who don’t have disabilities.

Parenting Children With Disabilities Becomes Less Taxing With Time

Scientists based in Switzerland and South Africa have created a biophysical methodology that may help to overcome hearing deficits, and potentially remedy even substantial hearing loss.

Biophysical Method May Help To Recover Hearing

Oregon Health & Science University scientists have successfully produced functional auditory hair cells in the cochlea of the mouse inner ear. The breakthrough suggests that a new therapy may be developed in the future to successfully treat hearing loss.

Treatment For Hearing Loss? Scientists Grow Hair Cells Involved in Hearing

Deaf people could one day have their hearing restored through a groundbreaking gene therapy technique, a new study suggests.

Cure for deafness now within reach – Telegraph

the brain’s integration of these visual and audio cues occurs at a very early stage of processing.

Ventriloquism In Motion: How Sound Can Move Light

A group at the University of Washington has developed software that for the first time enables deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans to use sign language over a mobile phone.

‘Can You See Me Now?’ Sign Language Over Cell Phones Comes To United States

When you look at someone’s face, what part do you concentrate on? according to a new study, that may not be universally true – while Western cultures do fixate on the eyes, East Asians tend to focus on the nose.

Not Exactly Rocket Science : Westerners focus on the eyes, East Asians on the nose

Applying for a Job at Chemeketa

Applying | Employment | Business | Chemeketa

The National Interpreter Certification Interview and Performance Exam Practice DVD will allow you to simulate the NIC Interview and Performance test experience, or you can access individual scenarios one at a time to prepare for the exam.

RID – NIC Practice DVD