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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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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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Phone Interview With Dublin City FM (Feb 2013)

Dublin City FM’s Bernard Whelan interviewed Sound Advice’s Caroline Carswell for the ‘Good Morning Dublin‘ show on February 11th, about Sound Advice’s parent-teen workshop on February 12th, “Feeling Isolated? You’re Not Alone!” To give context, the interview was focused to Sound Advice’s work, Ellen Arthur’s background, the challenges students with hearing issues experience in mainstream

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Event Video: “Feeling Isolated? You’re Not Alone!”

At Sound Advice’s event, “Feeling Isolated? You’re Not Alone!” (February 12th), this video was taken to get presenters’ and attendee feedback on the event. The event hosts were Ellen Arthur (youth advisor to NDCS UK), Rebecca Dunne (Sound Advices youth person) and Caroline Carswell (Sound Advice founder/CEO). More Reading Sound Advice’s “Feeling Isolated? You’re Not

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India’s Low-Cost Hearing And Education Services

As Ireland’s newborn hearing tests roll out nationally, India has initiatives that show how low-cost services are viable, even if resources are limited. Newborn hearing testing is rolling out in India, where the initiative in the city of Kochi received national attention. Since 2003, over 62,000 babies have been tested in 34 hospitals, with 92

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Children Can Filter Background Noise With Practice

Children with hearing-devices, who need to listen in noisy classrooms, were seen to benefit from a three week, intensive active-listening programme to train their brains to filter out background noise as they learned in class. Read: Auditory Training Benefits Children With Hearing Issues Persistent background noise in classrooms means hearing-device wearers can miss entire chunks

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A Surgeon’s Thirty Million Words Project Research

Chicago-based ENT surgeon, Dana Suskind, who oversees pediatric cochlear implants, is researching a thirty-million-word gap she sees among implanted children from lower socio-economic backgrounds. By age 3, these children hear 30 million fewer words than peers from more affluent backgrounds. With babies known to hear in the womb before birth, Suskind has a point. Read

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Google Glass: A Possible Look To The Future

Students with hearing issues may gain particular benefit from two functions in Google Glass, an emerging eyeglasses technology from Google. In 2014, these wearable headsets with camera, video, wifi and voice-tech are due for release after ongoing testing and user feedback through 2013. Benefits For Students With Hearing Issues Real-time speech-to-text translation in 37 languages via Bluetooth,

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Technology Boosts Journalists With Hearing Issues

Journalism as a career option is viable when you have hearing issues, with technologies like Twitter, Skype, email and instant messaging. However, YouTube and web-videos are a challenge to access, as this writer notes: Read: Technology gives deaf journalists more options Disclosing (and when to disclose) hearing issues is always a challenge, but the reality

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Making Peer Connections And Tackling Isolation

Yesterday’s Sound Advice parent-teen workshop with Ellen Arthur, youth advisor to NDCS UK, brought together a group of mainstream-educated teens with hearing issues and their parents, to discuss solutions to recurring challenges that are encountered in school and local community environments. Read more: “Feeling Isolated? You’re Not Alone!” Isolation at school does not mean you

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School Awareness Poem: I am Deaf, and it’s Okay

This poem was shared by a family whose son changed primary schools last September. He needed a snazzy way to tell his schoolmates and teachers about his hearing, and how to communicate with him. Here’s the result: I am Deaf and it’s Okay I am deaf, and it’s okay It’s not my fault – I

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Home-Work With Children Who Have Hearing Loss

Some families turn a child’s hearing issues into a chance to find and learn language in all situations and environments, according to blogger mum, Kristen Johnson (“No Small Thing“), whose third child has hearing issues. Read SpeechBuddy: How To Help A Child With Hearing Loss Kristen’s top tips for parent-child communication at home: Turn off appliances

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