Tag: deaf
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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.
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Nation & World
Inclusive dancing
The disabilities that have made Kerry Thompson, Ed.M. ’08, different are the ones that have set her apart.
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Nation & World
Deaf dancer feels the beat
Deaf dancer Antoine Hunter leads a master class that provides lessons in movement and inclusion.
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Nation & World
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.
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Nation & World
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.
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Nation & World
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.
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Nation & World
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.