Deaf-Friendly Swimming For Children (NDCS UK)
Two in five children in the UK have had difficulty accessing swimming pools or classes due to attitudes to their hearing issues, according to the NDCS. Read: The NDCS UK guide on Deaf-Friendly Swimming We suggest printing (laminating?) certain pages for your child’s teacher and sharing the guide, to ensure deaf children have a chance
Parent Question: School Resource Hour Allocation
A parent recently mailed the IDK team, with a query about her childrens’ entitlement to resource-teaching hours – now being shared with other pupils. Both my children at mainstream school have full allocation for resource hours. Until the school year 2011/2012 this resource time was one-to-one. Now they share with another pupil two of their
Reflections On The Leaving Certificate Experience
Rebecca Dunne, a Dublin-based student, submitted this piece to IDK after a full week of exams. Her generous effort is appreciated! My name is Rebecca Dunne. I am deaf, with a cochlear implant. I have just finished my Leaving Certificate exams and found them really challenging, as everybody does. Because of my deafness I was
Being Deaf: Some Workplace Challenges Identified
Recruiters and HR directors need to read this piece. It’s brilliantly written by a 21-year-old programmer who’s deaf and finding his way in his workplace. Read more: Being deaf (and other life lessons) This lad’s start-up has limited budget for access services, but a transcriber is hired for big meetings. Generally speaking, he says “HR
Tablet PCs Give Students A Voice In Classrooms
Students with hearing issues in Minnesota, are using tablet PCs to listen to MP3 clips, to find photos/videos for class-work and to speak on their behalf. Two students have used a speech-app and PowerPoint to present in a class. Read more: iPad techology benefits students who’re deaf/hard-of-hearing Resource and speech teachers also like tablet PCs
Getting Hearing Peers To Include You In The Chat
A UK-based teenager who’s deaf, has shared a honest account of the social isolation she can feel, when her hearing peers don’t understand her position. Ellen gives tips for everyday chat in mainstream settings in her interview, while acknowledging the need to mix with hearing people for mutual benefit. Read: ‘I may be deaf, but you
Customising Sound Technologies For Personal Use
Imagine yourself in a very noisy bar, or at a music gig. You’re wincing slightly at all the noise, or straining to hear what your friends are saying. For many people, this is a daily reality when they wear hearing-devices (even at a tea-station in a busy office, sound can bounce off tiled areas). Young students
Bilingual, Spoken Language At Home And School
Teachers of the deaf are usually tasked with developing their pupils’ English. The deaf preschoolers in this story are bilingual both in spoken English, and in their spoken family language at home (not every household uses English). Read: Being a teacher of the deaf at Clarke Mainstream Services This teacher runs a preschool whose pupils
Figures On Newborn Hearing Tests For Ireland/UK
By coincidence, new country statistics from Ireland and the UK for newborn hearing testing, became available the same week this month. The figures from the Irish Times paper show that since April 2011 over 8,000 babies have had newborn hearing tests in Cork one hundred babies were referred for further hearing testing all received intervention
Video Captioning Requires Automated Work-Flows
By January 2013, US federal law will require all online web-videos to be captioned if the content derives from material that was broadcast on TV. This law, the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (2010), poses big challenges for TV broadcasters and video-creators. What of the uncaptioned material that is online? Automated workflow and accurate
eBook: Teaching A Deaf Child To Hear And Speak
Edited by Caroline Carswell