Currently vibrotactile stimuli can be used to facilitate hearing in normal and hearing-impaired people.

Until middle school, the educational curriculum is the same for all pupils: although one can attend a private or state-funded school, the subjects studied are the same ( with the exception of special schools for the blind or the hearing-impaired ).

The Van Asch College takes hearing-impaired children from all over the South Island and the southern North Island.

In the 1990s, " Deaf College Bowl " for university teams with hearing-impaired students emerged.

With a history of developing closed captioning of programs for hearing-impaired viewers, WGBH considered the viability of using the new audio channel for narrated descriptions of key visual elements, much like those being done for live theatre in Washington, D. C., by Margaret Pfanstiehl, who had been experimenting with television description as part of her Washington Ear radio reading service.

For deaf and hearing-impaired patrons, six American Sign Language interpreted performances with highly trained interpreters are offered each season.

A telesync ( TS ) is a bootleg recording of a film recorded in a movie theater, often ( although not always ) filmed using a professional camera on a tripod in the projection booth, the audio of a TS is captured with a direct connection to the sound source ( often an FM microbroadcast provided for the hearing-impaired, or from a drive-in theater ).

Geers and Moog ( 1989 ) found that of a test sample of 100 profoundly hearing-impaired 16-and 17-year olds enrolled in oral and mainstream programs, 88 % were proficient and highly intelligible with their oral language, and could read at much higher grade levels than the national average for deaf children.

In addition to being a convenience for the hearing-impaired, this also allowed those who could hear to read along with the story.

Despite its intended hearing-impaired audience, the show made extensive use of music for the benefit of hearing viewers watching the show.

Nearby, the ghost of a hearing-impaired wise old man struggles to understand the words of an awakened mummy through a hearing horn.

While many hearing dogs are professionally trained, as described and stated above, it is important to note that this is not a legal requirement and there are deaf or hearing-impaired individuals who successfully, and legally, undertake the challenge of training their own hearing dogs.

Access to the 999 / 112 service is provided for the hearing-impaired via Textphone and use of the RNID " Typetalk " relay service.

In 1986, when The Smiths performed on the British music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test, Morrissey wore a fake hearing-aid to support a hearing-impaired fan who was ashamed of using one, and also frequently wore thick-rimmed National Health Service-style glasses.

Other SNL characters included " Baba Wawa ", a spoof of Barbara Walters, and Emily Litella, an elderly hearing-impaired woman who gave angry and misinformed editorial replies on " Weekend Update " on topics such as " violins on television ", the " Eagle Rights Amendment ", " flea erections in China ", " making Puerto Rico a steak ", " busting schoolchildren ", " protecting endangered feces ", and, once, nothing.

This is done by pre-recorded voice announcements for the vision-impaired and LED message signs for the hearing-impaired.

Court reporters are also employed by television producers and stations in order to provide realtime closed captioning of live programs for the hearing-impaired.

The former Union Bank building at 216 Tremont Street houses the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and its clinic for hearing-impaired children.

The students ’ primary grievance was that the university, which was dedicated to the education of the hearing-impaired, had never had a Deaf president, someone representative of them.

Swail is congenitally hearing-impaired, and his brother Liam is completely deaf.

A further reason for not granting minority language status to the sign language was that its users do not share a unique cultural heritage since hearing-impaired people come from all backgrounds.

The notoriously wealthy Marcus Crassus was around sixty and hearing-impaired when he embarked on the Parthian invasion.

This was discontinued in 1993 after a joint survey of deaf and hearing-impaired people found a majority favoured captioned programmes.

Doorbells for hearing-impaired people use visual signaling devices — typically light bulbs — rather than audible signaling devices.

It also initiated a SHARE ( Studentship Assistance for the Handicapped and their Rehabilitation through Education ) program, the first school in Central Luzon to integrate hearing-impaired students into mainstream classes.

Strath Haven High School is known in the area for its high-quality assistance for hearing-impaired and handy-capable students.

Tests ordered by Lombardi determined that Brown was hearing-impaired in one ear, and that he was watching for the lineman to move rather than listening to the quarterback's snap count.

`` Does any sane Democrat believe that Mr. Hearst, a person unknown even to his constituency and his colleagues, without a word or act in the public life of his country, past or present, that can be shown to be his to commend him, could by any possibility be elected President of the United States??

Above all, he is a person to whom a fledgling Representative can go to discuss the personal and professional problems which inevitably confront a new Congressman.

Observers can see a person engaged in spontaneous behavior, and watch him operating in a totalistic fashion.

So far in history man has been too greatly over-occupied with projecting things into his environment rather than first creating the sort of person who can make the highest use of the things he has created.

Of course, her benevolence was limited to those who could afford it, but then there is a limit to what one person can do.

I speak of `` the largest possible measure '' because any person who supposes that these conditions can be universally and perfectly achieved -- ever -- reckons without the inherent imperfectability of himself and his fellow human beings, and is therefore a dangerous man to have around.

But the `` marvelous person '' that is supposed to result from Zen exhibits more Chinese practicality than Indian speculation -- he possesses magical powers, and can use them to order nature and to redeem souls.

In my person they would always remember that last long time of me alone with her, so if they told themselves that I could have prevented it, I can understand that by now and love them still, because everyone must justify, have a scapegoat for what is not to be borne.

However, certain critical interlocutory court orders, such as the denial of a request for an interim injunction, or an order holding a person in contempt of court, can be appealed immediately although the case may otherwise not have been fully disposed of.

" Good ", for example, can mean " useful " or " functional " ( That's a good hammer ), " exemplary " ( She's a good student ), " pleasing " ( This is good soup ), " moral ( a good person versus the lesson to be learned from a story ), " righteous ", etc.

Soul is believed to be indestructible. None of the five elements can harm or influence it. Hinduism through Garuda Purana also describes in detail various types of " Narkas " or Hells where a person after death is punished for his bad Karmas and dealt with accordingly.

On the other hand, where a person has performed skillful actions based on generosity, loving-kindness ( metta ), compassion and wisdom, rebirth in a happy realm, i. e. human or one of the many heavenly realms, can be expected.

The smallest sound that a person can hear, known as the threshold of hearing, is nine orders of magnitude smaller than the ambient pressure.

Non-traditional Calvinists and other evangelicals advocate the similar but different doctrine of eternal security that teaches if a person was once saved, his or her salvation can never be in jeopardy, even if the person completely apostatizes.

It can also occur when a person attempts to apply such force, or threatens to do so, without the consent of the other person.

There is no distinction made in Scotland between assault and battery ( which is not a term used in Scots law ), although, as in England and Wales, assault can be occasioned without a physical attack on another's person, as demonstrated in Atkinson v. HM Advocate wherein the accused was found guilty of assaulting a shop assistant by simply jumping over a counter wearing a ski mask.

Simple assault can be distinguished without the intent of injury upon another person.

Among the last of his labors was the defense of the orthodoxy of his former pupil, Thomas Aquinas, whose death in 1274 grieved Albertus ( the story that he travelled to Paris in person to defend the teachings of Aquinas can not be confirmed ).

A good example of the contempt the first democrats felt for those who did not participate in politics can be found in the modern word ' idiot ', which finds its origins in the ancient Greek word, idiōtēs, meaning a private person, a person who is not actively interested in politics ; such characters were talked about with contempt, and the word eventually acquired its modern meaning.

A person who participates in archery is typically known as an " archer " or " bowman ", and one who is fond of or an expert at archery can be referred to as a " toxophilite ".< ref > The noun " toxophilite ", meaning " a lover or devotee of archery, an archer ", is derived from Toxophilus by Roger Ascham —" imaginary proper name invented by Ascham, and hence title of his book ( 1545 ), intended to mean ' lover of the bow '.

* No person who has an office under the monarch, or receives a pension from the Crown, can be a Member of Parliament ( MP ).

In a situation, when he has justification to assume, that a given person committed or is attempting to commit an act regulated by the convention, he can apply towards that person “ reasonable measures ” including restraint, under a condition that they do not break the rules enumerated in Article 6, paragraph 1 of the Tokyo Convention.