All for one: MetLife's MetDESK is distributing a new book to teach children about special needs.
MetLife has teamed up with an award-winning author to teach young children a valuable lesson. MetDESK, MetLife's Division of Estate Planning for Special Kids, recently entered into an alliance with children's book publisher Watering Can Press to distribute The Special Needs Acceptance Book through more than 300...

Twice-exceptional kids; a guide for assisting students who are both academically gifted and learning disabled.
9781578867790 Twice-exceptional kids; a guide for assisting students who are both academically gifted and learning disabled. Callard-Szulgit, Rosemary. Rowman & Littlefield Education 2008 117 pages $29.95 Paperback LC3993 Because twice-exceptional (2E)...

Deaf identity and social images in nineteenth-century France.
9781563683671 Deaf identity and social images in nineteenth-century France. Quartararo, Anne T. Gallaudet University Pr. 2008 285 pages $60.00 Hardcover HV2736 Quartararo (history, US Naval Academy) explores the history and evolution...

A rare cause of dilated cardiomyopathy; Alstrom syndrome/Dilate kardiyomiyopatinin nadir bir nedeni; Alstrom sendromu.
Alstrom syndrome (AS) is a recessively inherited genetic disorder characterized by; pigmentary retinal dystrophy, sensorineural hearing loss, obesity, non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. Other features reported in some but not all subjects include acanthosis nigrigans, hypogonadism, short stature, hepatic, renal and cardiac failure (1) (Table 1). The gene mutated in...

Babies need to bulk up; Healthy Start Initiative addresses low birth weight in Worcester County.
Byline: Thomas Caywood COLUMN: WHERE WE LIVE While infant mortality rates have declined with advances in medical care, one important indicator of a baby's health hasn't improved. Babies born in Central Massachusetts are as likely to be underweight as they were eight years ago, according...

Raymond H. "Tojo" Lashombe.
FISKDALE Raymond Howard "Tojo Lashombe, 82, died September 4th, at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, MA after complications stemming from a recently diagnosed brain tumor. He was born on January 29, 1926 in Worcester, MA and later moved to Massena, NY where he lived until 1946 when...

The spiral secrets of mammals' hearing abilities.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Whispering galleries are curious features of circular buildings. As whispers travel along the buildings' curved walls, they remain loud enough to be heard clear on the other end of even a large room. New research suggests we all carry a couple of them around in...

Disability in Local and Global Worlds.
Disability in Local and Global Worlds Ingstad B, Whyte SR, eds. Berkeley, CA 94704, University of California Press, 2007, paperback, 324 pp, illus, ISBN: 978-0-520-24617-1, $22.95. The purpose of this book is to present a view of disabilities all over the world; from developed countries,...

Analysis of speech processing strategies in cochlear implants.
INTRODUCTION A Cochlear Implant (CI) is a device that provides partial hearing to profoundly deaf people. These people are usually unable to obtain any benefit from conventional hearing aids no matter how loud the sound is. The common reason for this phenomenon is loss of hair cells...

Outrageous or meaningless? Two views of suffering.
One argument against Christianity begins with suffering: a good and all-powerful God would never allow the suffering of the innocent. There . is an understanding of goodness and of power here that should be challenged, but first it must be said that suffering has meaning in an argument against...