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Childrens’ Distinct Language Learning Stages

We already know almost all babies can lip-read when aged six to twelve months, to learn their mouth-shapes for talking. At this time, babies’ brains are processing speech sounds in the part of the brain that manages motor movements for producing their own speech. Six To Twelve Months Old From 7 to 11 months old (the

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Review: Dance Central With Kinect (Xbox)

A young dancer who’s deaf, wrote a review of the game, “Dance Central Spotlight” with Kinect, with several accessibility tips for developers of gaming interfaces. Specifically, Video games are not excluding [people who have hearing issues] with music-based games, but are… providing a visualization of music that can bring music to deaf and hard of hearing gamers in

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Ai-Media, RogerVoice and Captions Progress Subtitles

Fans of real-time captions weren’t short of news recently, with three developments from real-time classroom captions, to life-with-subtitles apps on smartphones and on Google Glass: Ai-Media Firstly, UK-based captioning firm Ai-Media announced backing from Nesta Impact Investments to develop its high-quality live captioning service for students with different learning challenges, while giving teachers real-time feedback

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Mainstream School Benefits Children With Implants

School placement is everything for children with cochlear implants. This explanatory piece is about an 11-year-old boy named Wyatt in the US, whose parents wanted him to have a mainstream education. Here’s what happened when he attended a school for deaf students: Wyatt was treated as if he were a deaf child with a hearing aid who needed to

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Strategies For Effective Auditory Verbal Therapy

Babies whose hearing issues are detected at birth, who receive hearing-devices and who start auditory-verbal therapy (AVT) before their first birthday, can have age-appropriate language within six months, according to a recent webinar from Hear And Say (Australia). Founder, Dimity Dornan, presented Is Auditory Verbal Therapy Effective? to highlight the family-centred teaching approach of social skills and listening-based cognitive strategies. Meantime, The Hearing Journal noted in

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FOREWORD To The Sound Advice eBook

Click on the blue image or red box just below, to download the e-book in PDF format. Sound Advice, producer of the ebook, Teaching A Deaf Child To Listen and Speak – Perfectly! began as a social venture in Ireland named Irish Deaf Kids, 2007 – 14, whose mission was to empower parents to

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Are Students Hearing Fully In Class?

US-based educator Ben Johnson, who teaches Spanish, tells of his lightbulb moment on discovering classroom soundfield systems at a recent educational technology conference: When you go to the movies, plays, or even concerts, the rooms are equipped with a sound system so everyone can hear. Why don’t we do that in classrooms? Isn’t it critical

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Using FM Systems At School And Home

Families find FM systems invaluable for children with hearing-devices during a typical day, whether that’s learning in a classroom or playing sports on a field (or ice, in this case). Read: Northbrook youth hockey player uses FM on the ice Noah’s mother, Maria Elena Powell, says: “I can be in the kitchen and he can be

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Diversity Among Deaf People Must Be Seen

Verbal wearers of cochlear implants and digital hearing devices are largely invisible in mainstream media, with a real lack of role models for young people who identify as such. Young people need to be seen on TV, enjoying mainstream life and talking with their families and friends, thanks to digital hearing devices and infant education strategies. Outdated Stereotypes On TV When

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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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