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Deaf Teen Open To IT Work After Caption Support
Having live classroom-captions in school has led a deaf teen in Australia, to consider a career in computer programming or in the general IT field. Read: Real-time captions for deaf HSC student Interestingly, the student emphasises how classroom-captions have boosted his literacy skills, while providing a detailed set of notes from each class. Further Reading
NTID Expects Deaf Students Who Speak And Sign
Diversity among deaf students at third-level colleges in English-speaking countries means they speak and/or sign, read lips and/or use hearing-aids and/or cochlear implants. Equally diverse teaching-supports are needed. The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), in Rochester, New York is expecting verbal deaf student numbers to grow as more receive cochlear implants at about
Blogging Benefits Students’ Varied Learning Styles
Word of the global QuadBlogging initiative was posted in IDK’s Facebook group, for interested parents and educators. Since late 2010, many schools in Ireland have kept blogs, and are seeing obvious educational benefits for the students (and teachers!) who participate in creating the blog-posts. A past IDK piece, “Using Blog Tools For Story-Telling And Picture Diaries“,
How The HSE Can Use Telepractice To Cut Costs
In 2011, IDK noted how a speech and language telepractice solution in rural Minnesota, could benefit Irish children in resource teaching allocation. Telepractice is “the application of telecommunications technology to deliver professional services at a distance by linking clinician to client, or clinician to clinician for assessment, intervention, and/or consultation” (ASHA, 2004). Here are three ways in
Deaf Masters Degree Student Trains As A Teacher
This inspiring story tells how a deaf woman is training to become a masters degree-certified teacher, and is working in an oral-deaf program in Texas. Read: Life comes full-circle for student, teacher Here’s why the story is notable: The student is the only deaf person in a teacher-of-the-deaf course Her fellow trainee-teachers will benefit from
Technology Bridges The Deaf And Hearing Worlds
The Tech section of Malaysia’s New Straits Times broadsheet newspaper recently ran an interview with a female, deaf IT graduate and blogger, who outlines exactly how technology helps bridge the deaf and hearing worlds. Read: Sound Her Out Employers, tertiary-education providers and IT firms can gain from reading this piece, which notes how regular blogging
Deaf Student Doctor Adds Perspective To Training
West Virginia University School of Medicine has its first-ever deaf student, a trainee doctor who’s seeking to change stereotypes, one patient at a time. Read: WVU School of Medicine’s first deaf student >> Thirty years ago, the US had three certified physicians who were deaf. Clear surgical masks and amplified or visual stethoscopes are now available
eBook: Teaching A Deaf Child To Hear And Speak
Edited by Caroline Carswell