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Reflections On #WebSummit2016 (Lisbon)

Having attended two Web Summit conventions in Dublin, Ireland (their hometown) – the opportunity to travel to the 2016 event at its new home in Lisbon, Portugal had to be taken. Women In Tech Tickets Ten thousand free tickets were assigned to female founders with their own businesses in the organisers’ attempt to boost the

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Educators Piloting Avenue PM Literacy Software

With about six million children in the US having hearing issues, the US Department of Education is investing almost US$ 900,000 into a software suite to track and monitor oral literacy progress in both mainstream and supported education programs. Forty-nine US states with 500 teachers and 1000 students are piloting the Avenue PM product, named

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Schools Adapting To Students With Implants

School districts across the US are challenged when updating education policies for mainstreaming deaf children who wear hearing devices and cochlear implants at local schools. While early intervention saves over US $200,000 per student for children with cochlear implants, parents across the US are applying for education services geared to children with these digital hearing

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Implant Candidacy Confirmed Via Telepractice

Researchers at the University of Kentucky (UK) are using telepractice to reach and remotely assess potential candidates for cochlear implants who live in the rural areas of Appalachia. Clients undertaking remote diagnostic assessments use a computer screen to interact with an audiologist in Lexinton, KY, through calibrated headphones or speakers attached to the screen. This

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4 years ago 2 Comments Captions, Education, Hearing, Telehealthassesment, audiology, diagnostics, ehealth, evaluation, hearing, remote, speech, telehealth, telepractice, test, testing

Skype Interviews With Captions Are A Lifeline

In today’s remote-working world, Skype calls for job interviews have skyrocketed in number, with the video-calling service used by up to 70 per cent of candidates seeking work outside their own national territory, according to recruiters in the UK. For applicants with hearing issues, Skype with realtime speech-to-text captions is a lifeline: Interviewees can see

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Students Want To See And Hear Podcasts

Student preferences for reviewing podcasts in class, feature in a piece contributed to The Atlantic by Michael Godsey, an English teacher based in San Luis Obispo, California. In the piece, “Why Podcasts Like ‘Serial’ Are Helping English Teachers Encourage Literacy“, Godsey saw student engagement grow when podcasts with transcripts were used in class. With 62%

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Teacher Gets Live Captions For CPD And Meetings

High school teacher Richard Koenigsberg, with 40 years experience and who is partially hearing, took a legal case against the East Brunswick Board of Education in New Jersey after multiple requests for real-time captioning support via CART were ignored. A settlement in January 2015 involving the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) required the Board of

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Florida Student Seeks Captions In State Tests

Fifteen year old student Payton Bogert, who is hard of hearing, is disputing accessibility in the Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) test, with an audio clip in her imminent tests. An ASL version of the audio clip exists but Bogert, who is not fluent in sign language and wants to go to Princeton University, has asked

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Sound Advice At The United Nations

In early 2016, Sound Advice was named a top-100 global inclusive education entity by the Zero Project, and exhibited February 10 to 12 at the United Nations office in Vienna, Austria. On February 12 Louise Honck from AVuk joined Caroline Carswell to present the auditory-verbal (hearing-speech) case for inclusive education in the conference panel session

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Legislation For Education Services In Ireland

Ten pieces of legislation cover education supports and hearing services in Ireland – listed here for parents, educators and lawyers re-engineering state services in a digital age. Ability: The Reality For Deaf Children In Ireland Infants born deaf, detected at birth, who get hearing-devices immediately and whose families talk with them at home, typically can start

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