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Hearing Disorders

PI: Philip Zazove, MD
affiliation: University of Michigan Medical School
topic: cancer prevention, cancer screening, health care education, health care knowledge, deaf, hearing impaired, sign language, computer use
medium: kiosk, computer program
audience: Individuals with severe or profound hearing loss
grant: A Multimedia Education Program for Deaf People
sponsor: National Institute on Deafness and other Communications Disorders
number: R25 DC04604-01
dates: 2000-10-01 - 2002-09-30

Hearing Disorders
This project aims to adapt an existing interactive multimedia program on cancer prevention for a deaf and hard of hearing audience and evaluate changes in knowledge among 400 profoundly deaf individuals.