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Ireland’s Chequered Hearing And Speech Services
Certain parts of Ireland’s paediatric audiology service work superbly, with a world-class cochlear implant centre in Dublin, yet at end-September 2020, 17,000 children and adults awaited initial audiology services nationwide. Of this total, over 7000 were children, with almost 8000 being adults over the age of 65. One-third of these children had waited over a
Deaf Students In Medical Fields Need Strong Clinical Leads
In a recent online lecture, “A Deaf Surgeon Comes Into His Own: Insights for Improving Outcomes with Hearing Loss,” Seattle-based ENT consultant Chad Ruffin, who wears bilateral cochlear implants, shared the challenges that surfaced in his time in the medical field – compounded by the internalized ableism mentioned by many deaf entrants to competitive workplaces.
Masks Stymie Deaf Professionals
Mask wearing, during covid 19 times. A hot topic, with science showing the way for most. But how do professionals who’re deaf, navigate a true challenge to their professional competence? The Paediatric (Pediatric) Doctor Hundreds of HCPs in the UK NHS happen to be deaf, @DocFizzabella among them. Since March 2020, shortage of accessible PPE
Ava’s Live AI Captions Make Videocalls Accessible
AvaScribe, which live captions in-person conversations, is moving into the desktop and web app space with $4.5 million in funding. In the videocall space, Ava’s captions have an edge over platforms like Google Meet and Microsoft Teams with built-in accessibility. Transcripts are saved after videocalls, for review and re-use. Each speaker has a colour label,
Videoconferencing Auto-Captions
Multitudes of people have pivoted since spring 2020 pushed us all into video-calling with family, friends and colleagues, on the fly. Live Captions Keep You Connected Meryl Evans, a marketer who wears cochlear implants, wrote, “The Best Automatic Captioning Tool For Videocalls“ Literally, the tech firms are innovating videocall platforms at speed to stay relevant,
Enhancing Entrepreneurial Thinking In Social Service Settings
The What Works Ireland initiative from DCEDIY ran an Online Festival of Learning in November 2020, focusing to prevention and early intervention in government and social services. Four types of public entrepreneur were named at the outset: Efficiency Drivers. Driving workflow innovation for efficiency. Bureaucracy Hacker. Creating value with process innovation. Market Shapers. Grant making,
Classroom Captions At RIT Get AI Assistance
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) – hosting the National Technical Institute for Deaf students (NTID) – is optimising its realtime lecture captions with help from Microsoft. With deaf student demographics shifting to realtime captioning, by 2016 the number of lecture-captioning hours at RIT grew by 58% to 24,335 – up from just 15,440 hours in
What Twenty-First Century Deafness Looks Like
Deafness is different in the twenty-first century. With today’s digital hearing technology, why consign potentially talented students, teammates and/or work colleagues to lesser life-roles as people? Changing What ‘Deaf’ Means I never learned sign language in a family or institutional setting, so don’t act so surprised when I tell you I don’t sign. Many hearing
Deaf Kids Learn Words Faster Than Hearing Kids
Young deaf children with bilateral cochlear implants can learn words faster than hearing peers at 12, 18 and 24 months after implantation, electroencephalography studies show. We observed that when deaf children get their implants, they learn words faster than those with normal hearing. Consequently, they build up certain word pools faster. ~ Niki Vavatzanidis, scientist at
eBook: Teaching A Deaf Child To Hear And Speak
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