Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
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This program explains the principles of assisting people with speech, hearing, or vision impairments. Various speech impediments including misshapen palate, spastic dysarthria, and dysphasia are explored. Computer animation is used to show conductive and sensorineural deafness, along with the different types of assistance each requires. Hearing aids and cochlear implants are discussed and useful tips to assist the hearing-impaired are outlined. The...
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"Hearing loss is not just a problem for the elderly. Up to three children out of a thousand are born with profound hearing impairment or no sense of hearing at all. But advances in research and technology, particularly involving cochlear implants, mean that many of those affected may gain the ability to hear. In this program viewers meet children born without hearing and elderly patients who lost their hearing over time who can now engage with their...
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"This program describes the major risk factors of hearing impairment, stresses the importance of early diagnosis of hearing impairment in infants, and demonstrates two infant hearing tests : the auditory brain stem response...and the behavioral method...The program also presents...cochlear implants...hearing aids equipped with computer chips...and digital speech processing."--Container.
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First, call 911. This program shows viewers how to respond to common medical emergencies while waiting for professional help to arrive. With demonstrations and commentary from an experienced paramedic throughout, each section describes trauma situations or symptoms of distress and the best way to address them. The video also includes relevant advice on topics such as giving yourself the Heimlich maneuver, using an epi-pen on someone having an allergic...
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Australian Sign Language, or Auslan, has existed in Australia since the early settlement of the country. It is a unique amalgam of British Sign Language, leavened with Irish and American influences, adapted over time to the specificities of life down under. Auslan illustrates the eloquence of sign language, wherein signs and movement--while not corresponding exactly with spoken English--are equally exact and expressive.
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(Producer) This program explains sound, hearing, hearing loss, and the relationship between listening to speech and different kinds of hearing loss. It includes realistic simulations of what speech sounds like with different kinds of hearing loss, and useful hints on improving communication.
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"In this program from Iran's PressTV, a news crew travels throughout Afghanistan to learn first-hand how people there feel about the foreign presence in their country. The journalists find anger and frustration in Kandahar, much of it directed against the Americans, who they blame for dividing the loyalties of Afghan tribes. In Kabul the immediate concern is not foreign policy, but trying to feed families as aid shipments are diverted by corrupt middlemen....