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Parent Question: School Resource Hour Allocation
A parent recently mailed the IDK team, with a query about her childrens’ entitlement to resource-teaching hours – now being shared with other pupils. Both my children at mainstream school have full allocation for resource hours. Until the school year 2011/2012 this resource time was one-to-one. Now they share with another pupil two of their
Reflections On The Leaving Certificate Experience
Rebecca Dunne, a Dublin-based student, submitted this piece to IDK after a full week of exams. Her generous effort is appreciated! My name is Rebecca Dunne. I am deaf, with a cochlear implant. I have just finished my Leaving Certificate exams and found them really challenging, as everybody does. Because of my deafness I was
Being Deaf: Some Workplace Challenges Identified
Recruiters and HR directors need to read this piece. It’s brilliantly written by a 21-year-old programmer who’s deaf and finding his way in his workplace. Read more: Being deaf (and other life lessons) This lad’s start-up has limited budget for access services, but a transcriber is hired for big meetings. Generally speaking, he says “HR
Bilingual, Spoken Language At Home And School
Teachers of the deaf are usually tasked with developing their pupils’ English. The deaf preschoolers in this story are bilingual both in spoken English, and in their spoken family language at home (not every household uses English). Read: Being a teacher of the deaf at Clarke Mainstream Services This teacher runs a preschool whose pupils
Figures On Newborn Hearing Tests For Ireland/UK
By coincidence, new country statistics from Ireland and the UK for newborn hearing testing, became available the same week this month. The figures from the Irish Times paper show that since April 2011 over 8,000 babies have had newborn hearing tests in Cork one hundred babies were referred for further hearing testing all received intervention
Video Captioning Requires Automated Work-Flows
By January 2013, US federal law will require all online web-videos to be captioned if the content derives from material that was broadcast on TV. This law, the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (2010), poses big challenges for TV broadcasters and video-creators. What of the uncaptioned material that is online? Automated workflow and accurate
Deaf Medical Student Not Fazed By Hearing Issues
When deaf students are mainstream-educated, observers may not realise the level of extra work they can put in, to get similar results to their peers. This piece reveals a deaf student’s commitment to her medical studies. Read more: Hearing loss not a barrier for medical student In this case, the student relied on her determination,
Taking A Mainstream Route To Self-Employment
The Irish Times Insight magazine asked what state supports are open to entrepreneurs with disability who start a business – at risk of losing any social welfare benefits they may get? Interestingly, mainstream education is cited as a source of the learning and skills people need for self-employment. Fiona Reddan talked to Caroline Carswell about her
Cornell STEM Captioning May Reach High Schools
Cornell University is testing an online, remote captioning system for deaf and hard of hearing students, which may reach into the high school sector. The move is geared to encourage more deaf students to study STEM topics. Read More: Cornell Supports Deaf Students In STEM Field Market-size figures from the US value speech-recognition, captioning and transcribing solutions
eBook: Teaching A Deaf Child To Hear And Speak
Edited by Caroline Carswell