Department of multimedia and graphic arts academic year

Definition p.3

Types of hearing loss p.4
Degree of hearing loss p.5

Age categories p.6

Understanding / knowledge level / Learnability p.7

Communication p.8

Accessibility Features / Acceptant Technologies p.9

References p.16

Questionnaire p.18

Analysis questionnaire p.19

Persona p.20

Suggestions for prototype p.21

Poster Suggestions p.22

Poster p.24

«Hearing loss is considered to be the most common inherited disorder in newborns. Is one of the most common disorders and is the consequence of sensor neural and / or conductive malfunctions ear. "

People can’t think without a language, at least not at the level humans are accustomed to. That's why deafness can have far more serious consequences than blindness, developmentally speaking. The blind suffer many hardships, not the least of which is the inability to read in the usual manner. But even those sightless from birth acquire language by ear without difficulty in infancy, and having done so lead relatively ordinary lives. A congenitally deaf child isn't so lucky, unless someone realizes very early that he's not talking because he can't hear, his grasp of communication may never progress beyond the rudiments.

If someone becomes totally deaf until after he has acquired language his problems are not minor, but manageable. He thinks in whatever spoken language he has learned. Given some commonsense accommodation during schooling, he will progress normally intellectually. Depending on circumstances he may be able to speak and lip-read.

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  Conductive hearing loss
  

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  Sensor neural
  

It tends to be uneven, with a greater loss in higher frequencies

Many patients with sensor neural hearing loss may be authorized or corrected by the use of hearing aids otherwise used cochlear implant. Device, which bypasses the damaged structures of the cochlea and stimulates the auditory nerve function.

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  Auditory Neuropathy (AN)
  

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  Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)
  

The degree of loss can be the same in both ears (symmetric hearing loss) or could be different for each ear (asymmetrical hearing loss). Hearing loss refers to a person with hearing loss based on residual hearing to communicate through speech and lip - reading.

-10 - 15 dB HL Normal Hearing

16-25 dB HL slight hearing loss

26-40 dB HL mild hearing loss

41-55 dB HL moderate hearing loss

56-70 dB HL moderately - severe hearing loss

71-90 dB HL severe hearing loss

> 90 dB HL profound hearing loss

Age categories

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  Infants / Children
  

Normal hearing in the first six months of life is also considered vital for normal speech and language skills. Therefore, early identification and appropriate intervention within the first six months of life has been shown to prevent or reduce many of the negative consequences and facilitate learning.

Even children who have mild or unilateral permanent hearing loss may have difficulty with speech understanding, especially in a noisy environment, and problems with education and psychosocial. Children with hearing loss often have therapist deficits and exhibit lower academic performance and poorer social - emotional development than their peers with normal hearing.

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  Adults / elderly
  

The loss associated with presbycusis is usually greater for high-pitched sounds. However, the same person may be able to clearly hear the sound in the low

Presbycusis most often occurs in both ears, affecting them equally. Because the process of loss is gradual, people who have presbycusis may not realize that their hearing is reduced.

The negative effects of hearing loss in older adults are important. Hearing loss associated with depression, social isolation, low self-esteem, and functional, especially for those suffering from hearing problems which have not yet been evaluated or treated for hearing loss.

Children with hearing loss learn concrete words like cat, jump, five, and red more easily than abstract words like before, after, equal to, and jealous. They also have difficulty with function words like the, an, are, and a. They have difficulty understanding words with multiple meanings. For example, the word bank can mean the edge of a stream or a place where we put money. Children with hearing loss often cannot hear word endings such as -s or -ed. This leads to misunderstandings and misuse of verb tense, pluralization, no agreement of subject and verb, and possessives. They often cannot hear quiet speech sounds such as "s," "sh," "f," "t," and "k" and therefore do not include them in their speech. Thus, speech may be difficult to understand.

Among the conditions affecting the development of communicative skills of the hearing impaired are

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  personality
  
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  intelligence
  
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  the nature and degree of deafness
  
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  the degree and type of residual hearing
  
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  degree of benefit derived from amplification with hearing aid
  
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  the family environment
  
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  age of onset
  

The profoundly deaf can and do acquire language. It's just gestural rather than verbal. The sign language most commonly used in the U.S. is American Sign Language, or just Sign. Those not conversant in Sign may suppose it's an invented form of communication like Esperanto or Morse code. It's not. It's an independent natural language, evolved by ordinary people and transmitted culturally from one generation to the next. It bears no relationship to English and in some ways is more similar to Chinese, a single highly inflected gesture can convey an entire word or phrase.

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  Hearing aids
  

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  Hearing implant
  

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  C-Print at NTID 
  

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  Type Well 
  

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  Viable Technologies
  

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  Accessaphone IP-TTY
  

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  Intele Modem
  

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  TE 98 Communicator
  

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  PeacePHONE
  

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  Captioning
  

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  Hand Talk
  

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  EMBRACE+
  

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  Firetext
  

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  IFTTT Philips Hue
  

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  The National Gallery
  

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  Google Glass
  

http://cirrie.buffalo.edu/encyclopedia/en/article/272/

http://deafed-course-language.wiki.educ.msu.edu/file/view/SLP.Audio.Resource.File.pdf

http://deafness.about.com/

http://deaftec.org/classact

http://ds.oregonstate.edu/faculty/dhoh.php

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/visiting/access/deaf-hard-of-hearing

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10400435.2010.483649

http://www.handtalk.me/

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/embraceplus/embrace-a-smart-piece-of-wearable-technology

http://firetext.me/

http://www.meethue.com/en-AT#relivemoment

http://www.google.com/glass/start/what-it-does/

Questionnaire

1. 
   Φύλο
   

2. 
   Ηλικία
   

3. 
   Επάγγελμα
   

4. 
   Πώς και πότε αποκτήσατε την αναπηρία σας
   

5. 
   Γνωρίζετε τι την προκάλεσε
   

6. 
   Αντιμετωπίζετε οποιεσδήποτε δυσκολίες στην καθημερινότητα σας
   

7. 
   Πώς σας αντιμετωπίζουν τα άτομα από το στενό σας περιβάλλον ή μη;
   

8. 
   Χρησιμοποιείται κάποιου είδους τεχνολογία που σας βοηθά σε σχέση με την επικοινωνία σας με άλλα άτομα και την προσβασιμότητα σε ιδιωτικούς και δημόσιους χώρους π.χ. νοσοκομεία, σινεμά κλπ.;
   

9. 
   Χρησιμοποιείτε κάποια από τις ακόλουθες συσκευές;
   

κινητο και Η/Υ

10. 
    Ακολουθείτε κάποιου είδους φαρμακευτική αγωγή;
    

11. 
    Πόσο συχνά επισκέπτεστε το γιατρό σας;
    

12. 
    Θα θέλατε να έχετε κάποιου είδους τεχνολογία που να σας βοηθήσει με την υγεία σας;
    

A 48 year old female user. She works as an assistant at deaf school.

At the age of one she had fever that caused infection in the ears. Because of the wrong treatment the user now has the disability of hearing loss. In everyday life she has no problem doing the things people with no disability do. Rarely the society treated her badly. The mobile phone and the computer are generally known technologies for her. She doesn’t have some kind of medication that she needs to take. The user rarely visits a doctor. With her mobile phone and an application (CYTA) she manages to get an appointment with her doctor. The user wouldn’t like to have some kind of technology to help her with her health.

Persona

Name: Anna Goula

Age: 48

Profession: Assistant at deaf school

Technologies used: Smart phone and Computer

Likes: Working with children

Dislikes: To underestimate her

Needs: To communicate easy and fast with writing