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Why Sound Advice Is Not A Charity

Several factors shaped our 2014 move to restructure the IDK (Irish Deaf Kids) venture from a dual-registered entity with CRO and CHY status, into Sound Advice as a sole tradership. Professionalising The Venture Between 2007 and 2014 (Ireland’s recession years), the professionalism underpinning the IDK venture went unseen, despite the founder’s past exposure to digital transformation within the publishing and corporate

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4 years ago Education, Hearing, Smartphones, Telehealthbusiness, deaf, deafness, digital, education, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial, entrepreneurship, health, hearing, impact, innovation, innovative, Ireland, mainstream, online, social, strategy, tech, technology, venture, verbal

Mentoring At #HackAccessDublin 2016

Earlier this year, Sound Advice was invited to mentor hackers at the first #HackAccessDublin hackathon (November 2016) to find solutions to make Dublin more accessible to everyone. With Transport the 2016 theme, the engineers, designers and makers got insights from diverse Solution Enablers (the mentors), to ensure a universal design for all the solutions. Engagement and

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4 years ago Captions, Hearing, Smartphones, Telehealthaccess, accessibility, accessible, children, cochlear, communication, deaf, deafness, dublin, ethical, family, hack, hackathon, hackers, inclusion, inclusive, Ireland, mainstream, public service, speech, technology, tourism, transport, travel, visitors, visual

Patient-Led Innovations At #EH2030

Ireland – the latest country in Europe to move its healthcare system to the cloud – held its first Health Innovation Week from November 19 to 24, 2016 with speakers ranging from chief information officers in healthcare from the UK and Ireland, to patients and innovators. Disrupting Healthcare Systems Healthcare is (positively) disrupted when innovation is

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Image4 years ago Education, Hearing, Smartphones, Telehealth#eh2030, cloud, cochlear, deaf, deafness, disruption, disruptive innovation, ehealth, healthcare, hearing, innovation, Ireland, medical, medical device, medtech, smartphone, technology, telehealth

Reflections On #WebSummit2016 (Lisbon)

Having attended two Web Summit conventions in Dublin, Ireland (their hometown) – the opportunity to travel to the 2016 event at its new home in Lisbon, Portugal had to be taken. Women In Tech Tickets Ten thousand free tickets were assigned to female founders with their own businesses in the organisers’ attempt to boost the

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Image4 years ago 1 Comment Captions, Education, Hearing, Smartphones, Telehealth#femalefounders, #Lisbon, #websummit, #websummit2016, #womenintech, access, accessibility, captioning, captions, cochlear, communication, digital, education, health, inclusive, information technology, IoT, Ireland, IT, literacy, mainstream, online, Portugal, technology, telehealth, web summit 2016

Hearing The Internet Of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved since 1999 and it’s only now that hearing-devices and hearables are starting to interoperate with door bells, smoke and house alarm systems. Consumer Technology As A Driver Wire-free technology provider Energous, is gearing to ship its WattUp product to wirelessly charge phones and multiple IoT devices such as

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4 years ago 1 Comment Hearing, Smartphones, Telehealthaccess, charging, headset, hearables, hearing, home, Internet of Things, interoperable, IoT, smartphone, technology, wire free, wireless

Skype Interviews With Captions Are A Lifeline

In today’s remote-working world, Skype calls for job interviews have skyrocketed in number, with the video-calling service used by up to 70 per cent of candidates seeking work outside their own national territory, according to recruiters in the UK. For applicants with hearing issues, Skype with realtime speech-to-text captions is a lifeline: Interviewees can see

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Students Want To See And Hear Podcasts

Student preferences for reviewing podcasts in class, feature in a piece contributed to The Atlantic by Michael Godsey, an English teacher based in San Luis Obispo, California. In the piece, “Why Podcasts Like ‘Serial’ Are Helping English Teachers Encourage Literacy“, Godsey saw student engagement grow when podcasts with transcripts were used in class. With 62%

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4 years ago Captions, Education, Hearing, Language Development, Smartphonesaccess, accessibility, accessible, book, books, captions, children, cochlear, deaf, deafness, education, hear, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, learn, learning, literacy, mainstream, podcast, read, reading, school, schools, see, student, students, subtitles, teach, teacher, teachers, technology, transcript, visual, words

Playlists Simplify Music For Implant Wearers

Music heard through cochlear implants is more complex for wearers to decode than speech, leading researchers to believe that simplifying key pieces of music may be one solution. Pitch and timbre are challenging to hear when music notes or instruments are similar, but this NPR piece, Deaf Jam: Experiencing Music Through A Cochlear Implant explains

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Florida Student Seeks Captions In State Tests

Fifteen year old student Payton Bogert, who is hard of hearing, is disputing accessibility in the Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) test, with an audio clip in her imminent tests. An ASL version of the audio clip exists but Bogert, who is not fluent in sign language and wants to go to Princeton University, has asked

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Pipelines To STEM Fields For Deaf Students

Four current audiology students at the University of Texas at Dallas have hearing issues that bring an extra understanding when relating to clients during their daily work. Just 3 to 5 per cent of audiologists experience a degree of hearing loss, according to Audiology Today but supervisors and peers now agree that these insights are

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