Developing a set of materials to teach hearing children about hearing impairment

This paper contains a set of materials to help hearing persons understand hearing loss.

Evaluating lexically controlled word lists for open set speech perception testing in profoundly hearing impaired children

This paper evaluates speech perception testing in pediatric cochlear implant users. Using pre-recorded stimulus presentation, the author replicated an earlier experiment comparing the Lexical Neighborhood List (LNT) test to the Phonetically Balanced Kindergarten (PB-K) test in estimating speech perception abilities in hearing impaired children.

Open-set speech perception of school-age cochlear implant users

This study examines specific auditory features perceived by profoundly hearing-impaired children using conventional binaural hearing aids and the Nucleus 22 Channel Cochlear Implant. The primary interest of this study was to learn which speech features were most easily perceived by users of each device.

Character education for the deaf and hard of hearing

This paper presents a curriculum guide for structured character education for deaf and hearing-impaired children. A list of suggested age-appropriate activities, role play ideas, thematic children’s books, and assistive internet resources are provided.

A set of lectures concerning an educational approach towards the young hearing impaired child

This paper is a review of educational approaches for young hearing impaired children in South Africa.

En nombre de un amor imaginario y los orígenes de la República del Ecuador (Dossier: Bicentenario, rastros y revelaciones de la Independencia)

El autor analiza esta novela histórica de Jorge Velasco Mackenzie, en torno a los orígenes de la nación ecuatoriana, entre la historia y la fábula. Reflexiona sobre el proceso de escribir como una forma de interpelar presupuestos consagrados, valores, símbolos e identidades. Handelsman destaca que el trabajo de la Misión Geodésica Francesa, de 1736, cambió la cosmovisión de la sociedad colonial ecuatoriana, escolástica, por otra de carácter más empírico, pero que el nuevo motor del saber moderno trajo también distorsiones y omisiones de otras verdades (como el que los indígenas perdieran su protagonismo milenario como conocedores de su hábitat). Pone en relieve, igualmente, la imposibilidad de expresar en una segunda lengua lo que se vive en geografías ajenas. Personaje importante es Isabel Godin, quien no puede liberarse del mundo oscuro, complejo y ambivalente que constituye la memoria. En suma, la novela desmitifica la autoridad de las ciencias naturales y físicas, y abre la posibilidad de repensar, reescribir y resignificar la historia del país.

A new set of orthogonal patterns in weather and climate: Optimally interpolated patterns.

A new spectral-based approach is presented to find orthogonal patterns from gridded weather/climate data. The method is based on optimizing the interpolation error variance. The optimally interpolated patterns (OIP) are then given by the eigenvectors of the interpolation error covariance matrix, obtained using the cross-spectral matrix. The formulation of the approach is presented, and the application to low-dimension stochastic toy models and to various reanalyses datasets is performed. In particular, it is found that the lowest-frequency patterns correspond to largest eigenvalues, that is, variances, of the interpolation error matrix. The approach has been applied to the Northern Hemispheric (NH) and tropical sea level pressure (SLP) and to the Indian Ocean sea surface temperature (SST). Two main OIP patterns are found for the NH SLP representing respectively the North Atlantic Oscillation and the North Pacific pattern. The leading tropical SLP OIP represents the Southern Oscillation. For the Indian Ocean SST, the leading OIP pattern shows a tripole-like structure having one sign over the eastern and north- and southwestern parts and an opposite sign in the remaining parts of the basin. The pattern is also found to have a high lagged correlation with the Niño-3 index with 6-months lag.