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Overcoming deafness : the story of hearing and language /
Hearing is one of the most empowering of our senses; it enables us to work, socialise and communicate. It's hard to imagine living in a silent world, yet just 60 years ago this was the inevitable outcome for the majority of people with ear disease or language problems. Nowadays, virtually every...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Imperial College Press,
©2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. I. Sound and hearing. ch. 1. Sound. 1.1. Measuring loudness. 1.2. Measuring pitch. 1.3. Mysteries. 1.4. How sound behaves. 1.5. Background noise. 1.6. Loudness and sound distribution. ch. 2. Hearing. 2.1. The mechanism of hearing. 2.2. Measuring hearing. 2.3. Names and nomenclature. 2.4. Testing children
- pt. II. Deafness. ch. 3. Conductive deafness. 3.1. Disease of the outer ear. 3.2. Disease of the middle ear. ch. 4. Perceptive or neurosensory deafness. 4.1. Disease of the inner ear. 4.2. Disease of the nerve. 4.3. Brain deafness. 4.4. Born deaf. 4.5. Tinnitus
- pt. III. Communication. ch. 5. Language. 5.1. The God with no mouth. 5.2. An inner language. 5.3. Wild children. 5.4. The critical period. 5.5. A language instinct. 5.6. Bilingualism and prejudice. 5.7. Broca's brain. 5.8. The voice. 5.9. Speech. 5.10. Gesture
- ch. 6. Music and the sound of feelings. 6.1. Music and birdsong. 6.2. Music as a human attribute. 6.3. Music and deafness
- ch. 7. Poetry and the sound of words. 7.1. Sound patterns. 7.2. Rhythm, beat and metre. 7.3. Rhyme. 7.4. Onomatopoeia. 7.5. Alliteration. 7.6. Assonance. 7.7. The sound of poetry
- pt. IV. Impaired communication. ch. 8. When hearing is impaired. 8.1. Two approaches. 8.2. Deaf children today. 8.3. Hearing aids. 8.4. The cochlear implant. ch. 9. When the hearing is normal. 9.1. Language deprivation. 9.2. Mental disability. 9.3. Specific language disorders.