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Sound Advice At The United Nations

In early 2016, Sound Advice was named a top-100 global inclusive education entity by the Zero Project, and exhibited February 10 to 12 at the United Nations office in Vienna, Austria. On February 12 Louise Honck from AVuk joined Caroline Carswell to present the auditory-verbal (hearing-speech) case for inclusive education in the conference panel session

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Hospital Waiting Lists (ENT Services)

Ireland’s hospital waiting lists for routine procedures often feature in national news reports. Otolaryngology (ENT) wait-times were the third-longest of the publicly visible waiting lists at January 2016. Accordingly, Sound Advice was invited to present at an Open Health Data Night at the Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, on January 20th, 2016 in a panel

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Image5 years ago 4 Comments Education, Hearing, Language Development, Telehealthaccess, accessibility, accessible, audiology, child, children, cochlear, communication, community, deaf, deafness, digital, ehealth, EHR, electronic, electronic health record, ENT, family, health, hearing, hospital, hospitals, HSE, Ireland, language, learning, list, literacy, parent, parents, patients, public, records, speech, state, therapy, times, tools, waiting

Speaking at the VdGM International Forum (Dublin)

A certain irony existed in being asked by Dr Peter Sloane, to join a panel at the Vasco da Gama Movement Forum in Dublin – after doctors in the 1970s had said I would never talk. Before this call to speak on the science of cochlear implants, the VdGM (Vasco da Gama Movement), the WONCA Europe Working Group for New

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Masks Stymie Deaf Professionals

Mask wearing, during covid 19 times. A hot topic, with science showing the way for most. But how do professionals who’re deaf, navigate a true challenge to their professional competence? The Paediatric (Pediatric) Doctor Hundreds of HCPs in the UK NHS happen to be deaf, @DocFizzabella among them. Since March 2020, shortage of accessible PPE

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8 days ago Captions, Education, Hearing, Smartphones, TelehealthaccessiblePPE, clearmasks, deaf, deafmedic, doctor, healthsafety, journalist, lipreading, mask, masks, occupation, professionals, professor, speech, workplace

Ava’s Live AI Captions Make Videocalls Accessible

AvaScribe, which live captions in-person conversations, is moving into the desktop and web app space with $4.5 million in funding. In the videocall space, Ava’s captions have an edge over platforms like Google Meet and Microsoft Teams with built-in accessibility. Transcripts are saved after videocalls, for review and re-use. Each speaker has a colour label,

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Videoconferencing Auto-Captions

Multitudes of people have pivoted since spring 2020 pushed us all into video-calling with family, friends and colleagues, on the fly. Live Captions Keep You Connected Meryl Evans, a marketer who wears cochlear implants, wrote, “The Best Automatic Captioning Tool For Videocalls“ Literally, the tech firms are innovating videocall platforms at speed to stay relevant,

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Enhancing Entrepreneurial Thinking In Social Service Settings

The What Works Ireland initiative from DCEDIY ran an Online Festival of Learning in November 2020, focusing to prevention and early intervention in government and social services. Four types of public entrepreneur were named at the outset: Efficiency Drivers. Driving workflow innovation for efficiency. Bureaucracy Hacker. Creating value with process innovation. Market Shapers. Grant making,

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Innovating No Touch Cochlear Implant Pathways For Covid

The second CI Futures 2020 webinar on August 5th, explored innovations in no-touch hearing care pathways for covid 19 times. Trisha DiGiovanni, a CI user, described how remote consultations blended with in-clinic processes before her surgery. Strong broadband, multilingual manuals and flexibility with time zones mattered, with patients taking responsibility for their own care due

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Reconfiguring Cochlear Implant Services For Covid Times

The CI Futures Forum summer 2020 webinars from the Global CI Collaborative, a group of global leaders in hearing and cochlear implant care, explores how covid-19 is catalysing innovation in care pathways, ENT surgical processes and telehealth channels. Reconfiguring CI Services: the new ‘normal’ was on July 22, with Katherine Bouton, a CI wearer, seeing

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Classroom Captions At RIT Get AI Assistance

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) – hosting the National Technical Institute for Deaf students (NTID) – is optimising its realtime lecture captions with help from Microsoft. With deaf student demographics shifting to realtime captioning, by 2016 the number of lecture-captioning hours at RIT grew by 58% to 24,335 – up from just 15,440 hours in

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What Twenty-First Century Deafness Looks Like

Deafness is different in the twenty-first century. With today’s digital hearing technology, why consign potentially talented students, teammates and/or work colleagues to lesser life-roles? Changing What ‘Deaf’ Means I never learned sign language in a family or institutional setting, so don’t act so surprised when I tell you I don’t sign. Many hearing people seem

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Deaf Kids Learn Words Faster Than Hearing Kids

Young deaf children with bilateral cochlear implants can learn words faster than hearing peers at 12, 18 and 24 months after implantation, electroencephalography studies show. We observed that when deaf children get their implants, they learn words faster than those with normal hearing. Consequently, they build up certain word pools faster. ~ Niki Vavatzanidis, scientist at

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Teachers May Overlook Deaf Childrens’ Support

News headlines in the UK’s print and online media, present deaf children as ‘failing to learn’ at local mainstream schools. Deaf education is multi-faceted, so let’s unpack a few points. Different Outcomes For Children Born In The UK After 2006 Detection Age Impacts Literacy Skills Recently, a survey of 129 oral and signing deaf children

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