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‘Hear More Words, Speak More Words’ – Literally

Children who wear digital hearing-aids consistently, have better speech and language abilities overall, due to having access to incidental sound. Researchers at the University of Iowa proved this correlation in preschool-aged children with hearing-aids by measuring (1) the benefit the aids gave the children and (2) the duration for which the aids were worn, every

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How Listening And Speaking Lifts Literacy Levels

Children who communicate by listening and talking can have strong literacy levels, thanks to extensive reading practice during their early-years learning to talk process. Stacey Lim, assistant professor of audiology at Central Michigan University, explains some literacy findings when infants and young children access cochlear implants with auditory verbal therapy (AVT, or learning to listen and

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Sound Advice’s Start-Up Story On ‘Small Business Can’ Site

Sound Advice’s start-up story is on the Ulster Bank sponsored ‘Small Business Can’ website, in the seventh anniversary month of seeking seed capital for the idea that became the irishdeafkids (IDK) website. NOTE: in 2014, IDK rebranded as Sound Advice, to reflect the altered landscape the entity is operating in as a result of achieving

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Getting Your Online Videos Captioned For Quality

Captioning service providers in the US are seeing more requests from the education, enterprise and government sectors as video captioning is outsourced to meet defined quality standards for mission-video strategy. Read: Buyer’s guide: Captioning Serices For Online Video Entities which proactively caption mission-videos also discover the benefits of video-captioning. These include searchable transcripts in video footage,

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Roger Pen Clarifies Spoken Language For Children

Children and young people who wear hearing-aids and cochlear implants can use a new microphone, the Roger Pen, which cuts background noise when listening to music, stories or TV and pairs with mobile phones for calls. Infants and Preschoolers As babies with hearing-devices travel in buggies, the words their carer says to them, goes directly from the

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Identifying As Hard-Of-Hearing, ‘With Devices’

There’s a new generation of born-deaf people growing up as a technically hard-of-hearing subgroup (with their hearing-devices) – who identify with hearing culture and must educate on daily assumptions made by others. Mainstreamed with hearing-devices Jillian Ash, writer of this piece, wore hearing-aids since infancy, and moved to a cochlear implant at age 9. She

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Six-Year-Old Shares His Goal Of Being A Scientist

Time was, when a child with hearing issues was asked what they wanted to do after finishing education, their answer might be indistinct. With cochlear implants, this has all changed. Today’s children can have clearly defined life goals, and know what careers they’d like to move into, when they’re adults. Six-year-old Vivek tells Press Club

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Journal Article: Parents’ Vital Role In Self-Esteem

IDK’s June 2013 presentation at the annual conference of the UK’s National Association of Disability Practitioners was published in the Conference Edition of the Journal of Inclusive Practice in Further and Higher Education (JIPHE). Caroline from @irishdeafkids talking at #nadp about her experience and what needs to change. pic.twitter.com/abAsJXSc2D — Ai-Media UK (@aimediaUK) June 28, 2013

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Commercial Aviation Lures A Pilot With Implants

Canadian-born Jordan Livingston (aged 19) has won a scholarship to train toward becoming a commercial aviation pilot. The significance? He wears two cochlear implants and was born profoundly deaf, to a hearing family. Read >> Deafness doesn’t ground aspiring pilot from Rancho High Predictably, Livingston met some nay-sayers, as is reported: People wondered if Livingston

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‘Sound Effects’ Presentation At CESI 2014

IDK presented on ‘Sound Effects’ at CESI‘s 2014 conference on Galway’s GMIT campus, with this year’s theme of ‘Spark The Imagination‘. This presentation explored how certain aspects of sound are experienced similarly, regardless of a person’s hearing level, and particularly now that digital hearing-devices can be mapped to a wearer’s specific hearing-levels. Sound fields were also discussed

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