With this data, among other things, scientists are trying to investigate how the lives of deaf and hard of hearing people differ from hearing people, in order to expand growth and development by developing new technologies and to offer these people a wide range of opportunities to improve their lives.
An example of this is the data set “Finding friends online: online activities by deaf students and their well-being”. For this dataset, more than 200 hearing, deaf and hearing impaired students (18-25 years old) in both the Netherlands and the United States completed a questionnaire about their online activities, the quality of friendship of online, offline and mixed friendships, and their well-being. The aim of the research project was to gain insight into the differences between online, mixed and offline friendship quality of deaf and hearing impaired adolescents in comparison with hearing youngsters and the relationship with their level of well-being.
Find the dataset “Finding friends online: online activities by deaf students and their well-being” here.
Research has also been done on the topic of locating sounds in our environment by children, with the aim of investigating the rise of spatial hearing sensitivity in children who use bilateral cochlear implants, with a special focus on the development of behavioral localization patterns when they are stimulated in a free horizontal acoustic space. The data is available in the data set “Data From: Development of sound localization strategy in children with bilateral cochlear implants“.
Find the dataset “Data From: Development of sound localization strategy in children with bilateral cochlear implants” here.
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