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Bilateral Implant Wait List Concerns Irish Parents

After this post, families in Ireland organised via the Sound Advice Facebook group, into the ‘Happy New Ear’ campaign for bilateral implants. At end-2013, the HSE announced that bilateral pediatric cochlear implants in Ireland would be funded. Despite the progress of Ireland’s national newborn hearing test programme, parents have concerns about the lack of two (bilateral) cochlear implant

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Video Captions – The ‘Missing Piece’ in Education

Using captioned video in mainstream classrooms brings ‘hidden benefits’ for teachers and students, as software firm Zane Education clearly explains. When Bill Clinton talks subtitles for literacy, we must act. What’s your move? Read: Subtitles – The “Missing Piece” In Education Within six weeks, childrens’ reading and literacy skills can improve by up to one year when

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Video: What Sound Advice Is About, And What We Do

In autumn 2012, Sound Advice’s pitch won a professionally-produced, promotional video in a CSR give-away by Dublin firm, Tailored Films. Here’s the result. Sound Advice is very grateful to Tailored Films for donating their skills to our cause, and to everyone featured, for giving valuable time to make this video. More Reading What Are ‘The Different

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Deaf Pilots Harness New Hearing Technologies

Piloting planes? Impossible for people with hearing issues? Wrong! Prepare to change your thinking after reading these personal accounts. Read: Deaf pilot spreads the word: You can fly As this pilot reveals, “[using visual cues for] deaf and hard-of-hearing people applies to everyone using English as a second language”, with safety enhanced for both types

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Educational Audiologist Uses Her Life Experiences

It makes perfect sense. Carrie Spangler, an educational audiologist in Ohio, was mainstream-educated as a child and teen with hearing issues. She’s now mentoring teen students like herself, who are in mainstream classrooms with hearing peers. Read more: Hitting Her Stride The advice in business is to use what you know, as Carrie Spangler is

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Hearing Through Irish, At Mainstream School

Amy Jordan, a student at a mainstream (Irish-speaking) gaelscoil in Dublin, shares her experiences with exams and teachers while using a FM system with hearing-aids at school. Read more: Mainstream Education Through Irish Recently, Amy did a week’s work experience with Sound Advice, to learn more about working with deaf children in Ireland, a career area

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What Are ‘The Different Ways Of Being Deaf’?

Some years ago, Sound Advice’s Facebook page showed a photo, advising us all to “Keep Calm and Celebrate Diversity”. Our point was that diversity exists in the deaf population too, and some people don’t know – or acknowledge – this fact. Diversity In The Deaf Population Read: Different Models of Deafness In Ireland, the media

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How NZ’s Hearing Tests Lead To Early Intervention

New Zealand’s newborn hearing test and early intervention programme has run since 2010, with about 170 babies born per year with hearing issues. Read more: Opening A Door To The World Of Sound Pathways lead from this national newborn hearing test service, to early intervention programs with the family’s chosen communication method. One service is

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How Policy Can Lag The Real Grassroots Reality

Policy for deaf children in different countries around the world can lag actual reality on the ground. Several articles the Sound Advice team read recently, make interesting reading. Our question is, what statistics are national/federal policy makers not getting – and why exactly? Listening And Talking Within The CRPD Case in point: a mother in Monterrey,

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UK’s Hearing-Services See Losses – Plus Gains

Mixed developments are impacting the UK’s public hearing-services. Regional audiology services are making gains or losses around the UK, based on budgets – but research into providing national school hearing tests for children aged 4 to 6 is under way. These school-based hearing tests, if rolled out nationally, will be a vital link in the hearing-check

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