Zazove, who has been a member of Temple Beth Emeth and the Jewish Community Center in Ann Arbor, leaves behind a tremendous legacy as a deaf clinician and researcher.
Bridging gaps: How technology is improving health access for deaf community
Juana Poareo, American Heart Association News
July 24, 2021
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A study published in the Journal of Health Communication found people who are deaf are seven times more likely to have inadequate health literacy compared to people who can hear. Getty Images/iStockphoto
Early in Dr. Michael McKee’s career, one of his patients, who was deaf, died from a heart attack.
It led the doctor to study how to prevent it from happening to others.
That tragic event might not have happened, he said, if there had been “accessible community health education programs to allow for deaf individuals to learn ways to improve their health and to recognize common danger signs of serious health conditions.”
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Teaching Students With Hearing Losses By Alice-Darrow
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Learning music as a student with hearing loss can be difficult just as teaching a student with hearing losses can be also. There are many children who are being diagnosed with hearing losses almost every day. In the article, âTeaching Students with Hearing Losses,â by Alice-Ann Darrow, an Irvin Cooper Professor of Music Education and Music Therapy at Florida State University, Tallahassee conveyed a message that students with hearing losses are capable of learning music. When hearing the words âhearing lossesâ you automatically jumped to conclusion that they canât hear anything at all however that is wrong. Darrow stated in her article that, âVery few individuals have no hearing at all however most students who are described deaf do have some
450 kids. dozens of coaches and three professional football players from the nfl have all gathered for a camp. derrick coleman is a fullback for the seattle seahawks. he also holds a unique place in the nfl record books that has nothing to do with touchdowns scored or yards gained. derrick is the third deaf player in nfl history and the first to play offense in the league. on the field, normal people range seven, eight, nine. without my hearing aids, i m one, two. one out of every two cases of hearing losses in babies is due to genetic causes. derrick s parents both have normal hear bug they are each missing a hearing gene. it resulted in a decline in derrick s hearing. by the time he was 3 years old