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Designing Hearing Aids to Mitigate Perceived Stigma Associated with Hearing Impairment
Assistive technologies support people with disabilities in living independently. However, perceived stigma towards using assistive technologies can...
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Internet of Things Technologies in Healthcare for People with Hearing Impairments
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a technology that connects physical objects, software, and hardware for interacting with each other and exchanging...
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Deaf and Hard of Hearing Patients’ Perspectives
This chapter introduces the narratives of eight deaf and hard of hearing (D/HH) patients’ experiences using video remote interpreters (VRI) versus...
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Deaf People and Healthcare Communication
This chapter provides resources for healthcare professionals and students who work with deaf and hard of hearing patients (D/HH) in healthcare...
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Conclusion and Implications
This chapter argues that financial concerns and hospital systems play a powerful role in the choice of interpreting modalities that are available to...
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What Is an Ecology of Health Communication?
This chapter introduces a new theoretical framework to map the relationship between communicators, and between the communicators and technology in...
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Sketching an ontology for Leichte Sprache and using it to represent information in Wikidata
Leichte Sprache 1 (Easy Language in Germany) was developed for people with reading disabilities, cognitive disabilities,...
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Games, Business, and Gamers: How to Facilitate a Game Accessibility Transition across the Gaming Ecosystem?
In recent years, the digital game industry has grown from a niche market to a multi-billion-euro business with influences that extend beyond...
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Enhancing Agency by Listening and Hearing to Enhance Capacity of the Most Marginalised in New Zealand: Our Respective Journeys
In this chapter Louise details her engagement in NZ prisons, and in a linked vignette, Aroha details her own journey to enhance the capabilities of...
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Bereavement and Loss
Bereavement is the state or action of being deprived of or losing something or someone. It is a very unique and personal experience. Any form of loss...
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Marketing and Business Ethics
The cases of marketing and business ethics highlight some commendable and questionable activities of some business entities operating in Bangladesh....
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Bengalee Adolescents’ Auditory and Allied Issues: A Study in Southern Bengal
Transportation noise including road and railway traffic noise is recognized as the foremost source of environmental noise exposure. Long-term...
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Determining Emotion Intensities from Audio Data Using a Convolutional Neural Network
Human beings communicate their feelings in the form of emotions. The feelings are expressed via speech, facial expressions, gestures, or other...
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Post-Disaster Dispute Resolution: A New Zealand Case Study
Disasters expose underlying weaknesses in systems and processes. When the dispute resolution framework is not set up to be robust in “normal times,”...
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The Neuroscience of Compassion
This chapter explores the concept of vicarious traumatizationVicarious traumatization and how it can be an occupational hazard for professional...
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Management of the Impact of Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm “Fani” of 2019 in Odisha
Odisha is frequently affected by cyclonic storms of various intensities due to its location on the eastern coast of India. In the recent past, very...
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Management of the Impact of Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm “Fani” of 2019 in Odisha
Odisha is frequently affected by cyclonic storms of various intensities due to its location on the eastern coast of India. In the recent past, very...
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Conclusion
In this text, discussions focused on disabilities within Anglophone Caribbean organisations, specifically to critically examine diversity, inclusion,...
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Claim and Dispute Settlement
As the follow-up management of the international trading, the management of claim and dispute settlement is important to maintain the stability and...
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Deaf Patients’ Access to Health Services in Switzerland: An Interview with Dr. Tatjana Binggeli, Medical Scientist and President of the Swiss Federation of the Deaf SGB-FSS
In Switzerland, as in other countries, deaf and hearing impaired patients experience deficits in accessing the healthcare system (Binggeli 2015). Too...