Tag: deaf

  • Nation & World

    Signs of quantum science

    Harvard’s Center for Integrated Quantum Materials and The Learning Center for the Deaf are working together to develop American Sign Language modules on quantum science topics for undergraduate students with the aim of increasing STEM opportunities for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.

    5 minutes
    Studio for filming sign language.
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    Inclusive dancing

    The disabilities that have made Kerry Thompson, Ed.M. ’08, different are the ones that have set her apart.

    6 minutes
    Kerry Thompson dances at Salsa in the Park.
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    Deaf dancer feels the beat

    Deaf dancer Antoine Hunter leads a master class that provides lessons in movement and inclusion.

    1 minute
    Antoine Hunter,Deaf choreographer, dancer,
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    New gene-delivery therapy restores partial hearing, balance in deaf mice 

    Harvard Medical School scientists and colleagues from Massachusetts General Hospital have partly restored hearing in mice with a genetic form of deafness. The new approach overcomes a longstanding barrier to gene therapy for inherited and acquired deafness.

    4 minutes
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    Radcliffe exhibit turns touch into sight

    “Calm. Smoke rises vertically” at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery is designed for the blind and hearing-impaired, but gives the sighted a unique experience as well.

    8 minutes
    Artist Wendy Jacob (grey shirt) has created an installation with the blind and hearing impaired in mind. She tours the exhibit with writer, Nina Livingstone, (black dress) who is blind and hearing impaired. The exhibit features vibrating walls and architectural models from schools for the blind and is housed at the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery in Byerly Hall. Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer
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    Connecting with science

    Students from the Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing came to campus for an ice cream-oriented science lesson.

    3 minutes
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    Auditory cortex nearly identical in hearing and deaf people

    The neural architecture in the auditory cortex — the part of the brain that processes sound — of profoundly deaf and hearing people is virtually identical, a new study has found. The study could point the way toward potential new avenues for treating deafness.

    4 minutes