This article is primarly about deaf police officers being used to fight crime in Mexico:Angels of Silence - Brainiac
However, in the sixth paragraph there's something very interesting: In a 2010 paper called “Neural reorganization following sensory loss: the opportunity of change,” two Harvard Medical School researchers reviewed the leading studies in this area and found that deaf people often outperform people with normal hearing in control experiments that measure skills like the ability to identify facial expressions and pay attention to the visual periphery. While researchers have not found evidence that the visual cortical areas of the brain actually expand in response to deafness, fMRI studies have revealed instances of what’s called “crossmodal recruitment”—basically when areas of the brain that used to service the diminished sense are co-opted to provide extra processing power for the senses that remain.
So why not CAPITALIZE on that visual processing advantage with dhh kids? Why must it always be trying to get dhh kids to function like hearing kids?
However, in the sixth paragraph there's something very interesting: In a 2010 paper called “Neural reorganization following sensory loss: the opportunity of change,” two Harvard Medical School researchers reviewed the leading studies in this area and found that deaf people often outperform people with normal hearing in control experiments that measure skills like the ability to identify facial expressions and pay attention to the visual periphery. While researchers have not found evidence that the visual cortical areas of the brain actually expand in response to deafness, fMRI studies have revealed instances of what’s called “crossmodal recruitment”—basically when areas of the brain that used to service the diminished sense are co-opted to provide extra processing power for the senses that remain.
So why not CAPITALIZE on that visual processing advantage with dhh kids? Why must it always be trying to get dhh kids to function like hearing kids?