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
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
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
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 as people? 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
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
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. https://212-111-43-94.ip.linodeusercontent.com/uk-changes-deaf-education/ Detection Age Impacts Literacy Skills Recently, a survey of 129 oral and signing deaf children aged 10 to 11 at schools in the UK,
Optimising Digital Sound In Hearing-Devices
Hearing-device wearers report that assistive technology to contain background noise is still a holy grail and needs industry co-operation, according to an Action on Hearing Loss survey: Ninety-six per cent of respondents said hearing in noisy settings is a major challenge. Just 12% of hearing aid users and 27% of cochlear implant wearers are satisfied now. Help From The Hearing-Device Industry
Five Questions: Ruben Ramanathan, Supply Chain Management Technology
Ruben Ramanathan will soon graduate from Purdue University in Indiana and is eyeing a career in the automotive industry. Since he was little, he has had a real passion for automobiles, and aspires to work for Honda or Mazda as a purchasing agent or buyer. 1) The biggest struggle being the only deaf person in my family is that I
Backing Startup Ballymun’s Small Biz Event
Sound Advice, with WorkJuggle, Find A Venue, Fetch, Grand Designs and Guardian Safety, was invited by Startup Ballymun to speak at a mentoring evening during November 2017. Hearing From Entrepreneurs At Varying Stages It takes a team! – the @StartUpBallymun entrepreneurs panel with co-organisers @BillyLinehan and @liamcbarry1978 with @Marggranddesign @WorkJuggle @soundadvice_pro @gogetfetch @findavenue @GuardianSafety2 – thanx to
Captioning 101 For The University Context
Realtime live captions support a broader range of attendees at university and college-hosted events like classes, sports events, guest lectures, theatre performances and student commencements at a more cost-effective price, according to UniversityBusiness.com. The problem with using ASL as a blanket solution for [deaf students] is that many hard-of-hearing students don’t know sign language. Now hearing-impaired
Return To Lisbon For #WebSummit 2017
The annual Web Summit event – originating in Dublin, Ireland – gets dismissed by Ireland’s press but has grown into a respectable, mature conference attended by leaders, movers and shakers from the tech and other worlds. Dublin’s 2013 event was the first attended by Sound Advice, with 2014 bringing an attempt to redress the gender
Australia Leaves Each Deaf Child $10K Short For AVT
On average, each deaf child in Australia is left AUD $10,000 short of public funding to access early intervention listening and spoken language services from birth to age three, with non-governmental organisations fundraising the balance, according to recent media reports. #Australia: Each #deaf child $10K short for hearing-and-talking #earlyintervention. https://t.co/79wSkNaDit #NDIS @FirstVoiceAus (@guardian) — Caroline
eBook: Teaching A Deaf Child To Hear And Speak
Edited by Caroline Carswell