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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Parents who learn their child is deaf, have massive decisions to make – and in this post for the NY Times, one mum describes the route her family took. Read: Teaching A Deaf Child Her Mother’s Tongue Both daughters in this family had a valuable head-start in life, in that their hearing issues were detected
Educators must adapt to reach young pupils who are deaf, in their own [technology] zone, according to an educator who teaches in spoken English. Read: Students with hearing loss gain from technology & teaching Children who are deaf also need book-reading, art-work and excursions in their learning mix. These activities create openings for chats with the
When deaf students are mainstream-educated, observers may not realise the level of extra work they can put in, to get similar results to their peers. This piece reveals a deaf student’s commitment to her medical studies. Read more: Hearing loss not a barrier for medical student In this case, the student relied on her determination,
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