Aid the Silent to Host Fully Deaf Accessible Music Festival

​The Texas-based nonprofit Aid the Silent is set to put on its first completely deaf accessible music and art festival in San Antonio from May 20 to 21. The Good Vibrations Music and Art Festival will feature live captioning, ASL interpretation, T-coiling, vibrating backpacks, and a visual light show. Headliner for the music event will be singer-songwriter Ben Rector, whose most recent song "Brand New" topped Billboard's Top 100 chart.

 

The target audience includes people with hearing aids or cochlear implants, as well as those who communicate with the American Sign Language. The organization said in a press release that this festival "will set a new standard, not only providing accessibility but unique opportunities for sensory experiences to all persons with hearing disabilities." All proceeds from the event will benefit the four branches of Aid the Silent's mission: deaf ministry, deaf research, deaf education, and deaf resources. 

Published: 2/3/2017 2:08:00 PM

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Aid the Silent to Host Fully Deaf Accessible Music Festival

​The Texas-based nonprofit Aid the Silent is set to put on its first completely deaf accessible music and art festival in San Antonio from May 20 to 21. The Good Vibrations Music and Art Festival will feature live captioning, ASL interpretation, T-coiling, vibrating backpacks, and a visual light show. Headliner for the music event will be singer-songwriter Ben Rector, whose most recent song "Brand New" topped Billboard's Top 100 chart.

 

The target audience includes people with hearing aids or cochlear implants, as well as those who communicate with the American Sign Language. The organization said in a press release that this festival "will set a new standard, not only providing accessibility but unique opportunities for sensory experiences to all persons with hearing disabilities." All proceeds from the event will benefit the four branches of Aid the Silent's mission: deaf ministry, deaf research, deaf education, and deaf resources. 

Published: 2/3/2017 2:08:00 PM

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Aid the Silent to Host Fully Deaf Accessible Music Festival

​The Texas-based nonprofit Aid the Silent is set to put on its first completely deaf accessible music and art festival in San Antonio from May 20 to 21. The Good Vibrations Music and Art Festival will feature live captioning, ASL interpretation, T-coiling, vibrating backpacks, and a visual light show. Headliner for the music event will be singer-songwriter Ben Rector, whose most recent song "Brand New" topped Billboard's Top 100 chart.

 

The target audience includes people with hearing aids or cochlear implants, as well as those who communicate with the American Sign Language. The organization said in a press release that this festival "will set a new standard, not only providing accessibility but unique opportunities for sensory experiences to all persons with hearing disabilities." All proceeds from the event will benefit the four branches of Aid the Silent's mission: deaf ministry, deaf research, deaf education, and deaf resources. 

Published: 2/3/2017 2:08:00 PM

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Person-centred cochlear implant care: Assessing the need for clinic intervention in adults with cochlear implants using a dual approach of an online speech recognition test and a questionnaire.

Person-centred cochlear implant care: Assessing the need for clinic intervention in adults with cochlear implants using a dual approach of an online speech recognition test and a questionnaire.

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Authors: Cullington HE, Agyemang-Prempeh A

Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the feasibility of adults with cochlear implants using an online speech recognition test and questionnaire at home to assess whether they need to come to the clinic or not.
METHODS: A prospective single-centre feasibility study evaluating • An online speech recognition test (digit triplet test (DTT)). • A long-term follow-up questionnaire to assess aspects that a clinician would ask in a face-to-face appointment. • A satisfaction questionnaire to assess patient perception of remote speech recognition testing. • Seventeen people using cochlear implants aged from 34 to 84 years took part.
RESULTS: • The majority of adults were able and willing to use tools at home to assess if they need to come to the centre. • The DTT speech reception threshold was repeatable on three occasions within 3 weeks. • The majority of adults felt positive about testing their own hearing using the DTT at home. However, only a minority (two out of 17) felt they preferred remote testing to clinic testing (the majority was undecided).
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Person-centred cochlear implant care: Assessing the need for clinic intervention in adults with cochlear implants using a dual approach of an online speech recognition test and a questionnaire.

Person-centred cochlear implant care: Assessing the need for clinic intervention in adults with cochlear implants using a dual approach of an online speech recognition test and a questionnaire.

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Authors: Cullington HE, Agyemang-Prempeh A

Abstract
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Less hip joint loading only during running rather than walking in elderly compared to young adults

Publication date: March 2017
Source:Gait & Posture, Volume 53
Author(s): Georgios Giarmatzis, Ilse Jonkers, Remco Baggen, Sabine Verschueren
Walking and running have been found to increase hip bone mass in postmenopausal women. However, the optimal speed to trigger osteogenesis is still under debate because the exact loading during different speeds is poorly characterized. Moreover, age related differences in gait kinematics/kinetics can potentially result in differences in peak hip loading, making extrapolation of results based on young populations to the elderly misleading. Using integrated 3D motion capture and musculoskeletal modeling, peak hip contact forces (HCFs) were calculated during walking and running from 3 to 9km/h in 14 female young (21.4±1.6years old) and elderly (69.8±3.4years old) participants. Peak HCFs were similar during walking in both groups, whereas elderly loaded their hip less than young during running, through reducing their stride length and hip adduction angle at peak loading. Moreover, hip adduction moment was found to best predict peak HCF during impact in walking and running whereas hip extension and external rotation moment can predict the second peak HCF during walking in the elderly and young group respectively. Comparison between same speeds in walking and running revealed that in contrast to young no additional hip loading is imposed during running in elderly. The present study offers an insight into the differences in hip loading profile in postmenopausal women during walking and running at different speeds. Such information is crucial to medical experts that target site-specific bone loading through exercise in elderly populations in order to prevent hip bone loss.



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Publication date: March 2017
Source:Gait & Posture, Volume 53
Author(s): Georgios Giarmatzis, Ilse Jonkers, Remco Baggen, Sabine Verschueren
Walking and running have been found to increase hip bone mass in postmenopausal women. However, the optimal speed to trigger osteogenesis is still under debate because the exact loading during different speeds is poorly characterized. Moreover, age related differences in gait kinematics/kinetics can potentially result in differences in peak hip loading, making extrapolation of results based on young populations to the elderly misleading. Using integrated 3D motion capture and musculoskeletal modeling, peak hip contact forces (HCFs) were calculated during walking and running from 3 to 9km/h in 14 female young (21.4±1.6years old) and elderly (69.8±3.4years old) participants. Peak HCFs were similar during walking in both groups, whereas elderly loaded their hip less than young during running, through reducing their stride length and hip adduction angle at peak loading. Moreover, hip adduction moment was found to best predict peak HCF during impact in walking and running whereas hip extension and external rotation moment can predict the second peak HCF during walking in the elderly and young group respectively. Comparison between same speeds in walking and running revealed that in contrast to young no additional hip loading is imposed during running in elderly. The present study offers an insight into the differences in hip loading profile in postmenopausal women during walking and running at different speeds. Such information is crucial to medical experts that target site-specific bone loading through exercise in elderly populations in order to prevent hip bone loss.



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