Archive for April, 2009
Baton Rouge Speech & Hearing Foundation audiologist Natalee Menge gives the ‘thumbs up’ sign to 7-year-old Trevor Diaz. He was there with mother Alisha Welch so Menge could make sure his cochlear implant was functioning properly.
Doyle expected to sign legislation requiring insurance companies to cover hearing aids
Doyle expected to sign legislation requiring insurance companies to cover hearing aids
roy Larson loves baseball. He listens to as many Minnesota Twins games as possible. He's attended around 50 of their games since 2000. He has every World Series result since the mid-1930s memorized. He can tell you when the American League expanded to how many teams and which franchises moved where and when.
Communicating through sign language was once more prevalent than it is today. According to Nancy Nickelson, teacher for the hearing impaired for the Jefferson City Public Schools, advances in technology have led to fewer students learning American Sign Language or Signing Exact English (SEE).
If private insurance companies are required to cover cochlear implants, a Marshfield Clinic doctor said it could remove one barrier for children with severe hearing problems.
Bellbird man Ray McGuinness will travel to the home of golf at St. Andrew’s Scotland as a member of the Australian team to contest the 8th World Deaf Golf Championships.
Tecumseh middle and high schools will continue to use the block scheduling system for the 2009-10 school year.
WHEN the Six Million Dollar Man strutted his stuff on television screens in the 1970s, practical applications of bionics - a combination of biology and electronics - were still pretty much a glint in a researcher's eye.
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