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Medical Student At PNWU Sues To Retain His Place

Earlier this year, postgraduate student Zachary Featherstone took a lawsuit against Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences (PNWU) on the basis of unfair discrimination. Featherstone interviewed with PNWU in 2013, and deferred his place for a year to secure state funding for his study supports. Importantly, the State of Washington Division of Vocational Rehabilitation offered to cover

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A New Domain – And A New Name

Welcome to Sound Advice, the new name for the Irish Deaf Kids (IDK) venture since 2014! Why This Rebrand? Seven years is a milestone for a startup which coincided with the global financial crisis of 2007-08. In this time, the meaning of ‘deafness’ in Ireland was redefined, thanks to newborn hearing tests, digital hearing devices and

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Technology For Entrepreneurs With Hearing Issues

Today’s smartphones and tablet PCs make self-employment a reality for people like Janice Fucci, who hears and lip-reads with a cochlear implant. Now aged 60, Fucci runs a small business using text messages, calendar apps and Facebook to reach her clients, some sourced from past salon jobs. Read: Technology opens entrepreneurship to deaf people Roadmaps And

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Remote Tuning For Implants Saves Families Time

Using telepractice systems to remotely manage and tune cochlear implants saves vital time for child and adult wearers in terms of travel, hours missed at school or work and quality time spent with friends and family members. One family with a six-year-old wearer of a cochlear implant, told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer how teletherapy saves travel

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FCC Ruling Raises Need For Realtime Captioners

Closed captions on TV shows in the US, are regulated by new FCC (Federal Communications Commission) controls since March 2014. The four critical elements are: accuracy, synchronization, completeness, and placement. The accuracy clause means TV stations must give captioners speakers’ names in advance, a challenge since captioners are not paid for prep time. Tips for synchronising content

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Teen Sues School District Over Lack Of Supports

School districts in the US are challenged by students’ new technologies, such as cochlear implants and CART (communication access in real time) captions. In fact, a few lawsuits have occurred around provision of CART in classrooms, with another case just reaching the headlines: Video: Student sues school district for supports Each story has two sides,

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Kaltura Launches REACH Access Tools For Video

Open-source video platform, Kaltura, has launched a new accessibility suite with captioning, transcription and translation services, in-video and cross-library search, deep-linking options, metadata and keyword extraction. Kaltura launches REACH accessibility suite REACH, designed for language-learners and people with hearing issues, enables educational entities, workplaces, media firms and service providers to extend video services while meeting compliance

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Cued Speech Finding Its Place In A Long Debate

Cued Speech may be finding its place with digital hearing-devices. From the 1960s, Cued Speech was seen as “too oral” by signing deaf people and “too manual” by families using the verbal approach, but this could be changing. Right On Cue: Cued Speech For Communication Reasons For Using Cued Speech Literacy and reading skills are

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Delivering Live Captions That Students Can Read

With today’s classrooms having multiple digital data-sources, students who read live captions are challenged by room lighting or shadows, placement of units, and fitting audio-visual media screens into each student’s line of sight. Improving Caption Experiences Researchers at the University of Rochester are tackling these issues, aware that students in these classrooms with full hearing,

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Live Captions: Defining ‘Reasonable’ Facilitation

Anyone who requests live captions or CART (communication access in realtime) for an educational or training context, knows the pain points of (1) defining your hearing issues (2) explaining what CART is, and its benefits (3) arranging its provision and (4) establishing who actually pays for it. One blogger, Chelle George, describes in detail the

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