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
Student Note-Taking Supports Prioritised In Japan
A fascinating infographic from Japan, shows the proportion of students with hearing issues in third-level education, and the supports they receive. Before 1990, most students at tertiary level in Japan had to make their way through college, by borrowing and transcribing notes from hearing peers. Read: Support for deaf/hard of hearing students in Japan Thankfully,
‘Pathways To Trinity’ (College) Student Workshops
From September 2012, the Disability Service at Trinity College Dublin will provide its ‘Pathways to College’ workshop series to Leaving Certificate students who will be applying for a place in Trinity via the CAO. These interactive workshops give students opportunities to Explore the nature of their own learning style/s Develop effective study skills for the
Hearing-Aid Users Driven To ‘Hack’ Their Devices
Hearing-aids are being customised and tweaked by software engineers and people who manage their own PCs and smartphones, the BBC has reported. Read: Hearing-Aid Hackers Fine-Tuning Their Own Devices Frustration results when aid-wearers can’t tune their own devices, plus the fact that hearing-aid brands, parts and accessories tend to be incompatible. Interestingly, when Apple announced
Family Gets Apology From HSE For Misdiagnosis
A family’s experience when their son’s deafness was misdiagnosed despite repeated hearing tests, recently featured in The Irish Examiner newspaper. Read: “If it happened to our son, it could happen to others” The family went public with fears that misdiagnoses might happen to others. Feel free to comment on this piece below, in the space provided. Further
Healthcare Careers Highlighted To Deaf Students
Less than six per cent of people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing work in healthcare in the US, compared to almost ten per cent of people who hear. These statistics were issued by four research-partners, seeking to increase the number of deaf and hard of hearing people working in healthcare. Taskforce Reviews Healthcare Career Options
Language Parallels Seen In Deafness And Dyslexia
New research from the US has uncovered parallels in language-processing by two groups of children with hearing issues, and children with dyslexia. The study at Ohio State University looks at the links between hearing and language skills (children with cochlear implants, and children with dyslexia). Read: Studies On Deaf Children May Decode Dyslexia Importantly, this study
Captions And Subtitles ‘Help Everybody To Learn’
Rebecca Dunne, who just finished her Leaving Cert. exams, shares some views on classroom captions, based on her own experiences. Captions and subtitles help everybody, not just deaf people. This year I did my Leaving Cert Vocational Preparation (LCVP)/Link Modules, which involved watching a video and answering questions on it, at the same time. I personally
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
eBook: Teaching A Deaf Child To Hear And Speak
Edited by Caroline Carswell