Medical and Health Care Services Research
The Gallaudet Research Institute conducts research related to Medical and
Health Care Services. Some of these projects are described below.
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Health Care Services for Deaf and
Hard of Hearing Adults.
This project is a collaboration between the Gallaudet Research Institute
and Delmarva Foundation for Medical Care, Inc., under funding by the Health
Care Financing Administration, to determine performance standards for health
care services to deaf and hard of hearing adults. Initial work focused on
identifying the existence of provider performance indicators and making
recommendations through expert panels for possible quality improvement
initiatives. Senda Benaissa is the GRI
collaborator on this project.
Cochlear Implants.
Pediatric Cochlear Implants:
Implications for Gallaudet University and Deaf and Hard of Hearing
People focuses on how parents and families that include children with
cochlear implants deal with a variety of implant-related issues. The results
of this study will be published in Cochlear Implants in Children:
Ethics and Choices by John B. Christiansen and Irene W. Leigh
with contributions from Patricia E. Spencer and Jay R. Lucker.
Gallaudet U. Press, Dec. 2001.
Self-Monitoring During Speech Articulation
By Hearing Aid and Cochlear Implant Users examines whether hearing aid
and cochlear implant users can efficiently use auditory feedback during
speech articulation.
Who and Where Are Our
Children with Cochlear Implants? was presented at the Convention of
the American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association, 1997, Boston, Massachusetts.
The Dilemma of Pediatric Cochlear Implants:
Parent Perspectives (A Microsoft PowerPoint presentation) by
John B. Christiansen and Irene W. Leigh, Gallaudet University,
Washington, DC
Genetics.
Genetic Epidemiological Studies of
Early-Onset Deafness in the U.S. School-Age Population and
Genetic Studies of Non-Syndromic
Deafness
(Spanish version available)
are among the reports resulting from genetics research collaborations.
Researchers at the Medical College of Virginia (MCV) and Gallaudet University
have been awarded grant funding by the National Institutes of Health to
attempt to identify genes that can cause hearing loss. The Gallaudet-MCV team
has been studying causes of hereditary deafness for nearly 30 years, beginning
with a nationwide study in 1969, which showed that hereditary factors (genes)
are responsible for more than 50% of deafness that occurs in children.
