Home - Sound Advice

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

Gallery8 years ago Captions, Education, Hearing, Language Development, Smartphones, Telehealth#CRPD, #CRPDconf, ability, access, accessibility, accessible, assistive, book, books, captions, child, children, classroom, cochlear, communication, concept, deaf, deafness, design, education, family, hearing, ICT, inclusion, inclusive, information, information technology, Ireland, language, learn, learning, literacy, mainstream, parent, parents, preschool, read, reading, school, schools, social, speech, student, students, support, talent, teach, teacher, teachers, teaching, technologies, technology, training, UN-CRPD, UNCRPD, universal, words

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

Image9 years ago 4 Comments Education, Hearing, Language Development, Telehealthaccess, accessibility, accessible, audiology, child, children, cochlear, communication, community, deaf, deafness, digital, ehealth, EHR, electronic, electronic health record, ENT, family, health, hearing, hospital, hospitals, HSE, Ireland, language, learning, list, literacy, parent, parents, patients, public, records, speech, state, therapy, times, tools, waiting

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

Image9 years ago Hearing, Telehealth#vdgmDublin #vdgmForum, awareness, child, children, cochlear, communication, connected, contact, deaf, digital, education, ehealth, family, forum, GP, health, healthcare, hearing, inclusive, innovation, Ireland, language, learn, learning, mainstream, parent, parents, physicians, plenary, practice, remote, science, session, social, speech, student, students, teach, technology, telehealth, telepractice, training

Playlists Simplify Music For Implant Wearers

Music heard through cochlear implants is more complex for wearers to decode than speech, leading researchers to believe that simplifying key pieces of music may be one solution. Pitch and timbre are challenging to hear when music notes or instruments are similar, but this NPR piece, Deaf Jam: Experiencing Music Through A Cochlear Implant explains

8 years ago 1 Comment Education, Hearing, Smartphonesaccess, accessibility, accessible, child, children, cochlear, deaf, deafness, development, education, family, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, language, literacy, mainstream, music, school, schools, social, technology

Teacher Gets Live Captions For CPD And Meetings

High school teacher Richard Koenigsberg, with 40 years experience and who is partially hearing, took a legal case against the East Brunswick Board of Education in New Jersey after multiple requests for real-time captioning support via CART were ignored. A settlement in January 2015 involving the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) required the Board of

8 years ago 1 Comment Captions, Education, Hearingaccess, accessibility, cochlear, CPD, deaf, deafness, education, family, inclusion, inclusive, mainstream, school, schools, social, student, students, support, teacher, technology, training, visual, words

Florida Student Seeks Captions In State Tests

Fifteen year old student Payton Bogert, who is hard of hearing, is disputing accessibility in the Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) test, with an audio clip in her imminent tests. An ASL version of the audio clip exists but Bogert, who is not fluent in sign language and wants to go to Princeton University, has asked

8 years ago 1 Comment Captions, Education, Hearing, Smartphonesaccess, accessibility, accessible, book, books, caption, captions, cochlear, communication, deaf, deafness, education, family, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, independent, language, learn, learning, literacy, mainstream, parent, parents, provisions, read, reading, school, schools, social, speech, student, students, support, teacher, technology, transcribe, transcript, visual, words

Pipelines To STEM Fields For Deaf Students

Four current audiology students at the University of Texas at Dallas have hearing issues that bring an extra understanding when relating to clients during their daily work. Just 3 to 5 per cent of audiologists experience a degree of hearing loss, according to Audiology Today but supervisors and peers now agree that these insights are

Video8 years ago 1 Comment Education, Hearing, Smartphones, Telehealthaccess, audiology, auditory, auditory verbal therapy, aural, child, children, cochlear, communication, deaf, deafness, education, family, female, field, fields, group, health, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, language, literacy, mainstream, medical, medicine, pathology, peer, science, sciences, speech, STEM, student, students, support, supports, technical, technology, tertiary, training, women

Spoken Language Intervention In Sri Lanka

Two infant-intervention centres in Sri Lanka are referenced here for families with children who are deaf and researching the spoken-language option with digital hearing-devices. CEHIC – Centre For Hearing Impaired Children Since 1992, the CEHIC in Dalugama has sent over 600 deaf children to mainstream schools in Sri Lanka after attending CEHIC from birth to

8 years ago 1 Comment Education, Hearing, Language Developmentaccess, auditory-verbal, book, books, child, children, cochlear, communication, concept, creche, deaf, deafness, early, education, family, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, intervention, language, learn, learning, listen, listening, literacy, mainstream, oral, parent, parents, preschool, read, reading, school, social, speak, speech, support, talk, talking, teach, teacher, teaching, technology, training, verbal, vocabulary, words

Getting Cochlear Implants To Work In Tandem

Biologically, our (human) ears are made to talk to each other – to identify sounds, to lower interfering sounds, prioritise vital sounds and locate the source of a sound. This sound apportioning happens via a neural reflex that links the cochlea of each ear via the brain’s auditory control centre – to balance hearing between

8 years ago Education, Hearing, Language Development, Smartphones, Telehealthaccess, accessibility, auditory, bilateral, binaural, crowd, deaf, deafness, device, digital, echo, engineer, environment, geolocation, group, hear, hearing, location, materials, microphone, microphones, reverberation, sound, source, technology, tuning, venue, wifi

Australia’s Listening And Spoken Language Focus

With almost fifty children graduating from Australia’s Shepherd Centre after learning to listen and talk from infancy, here are some reports about their start in mainstream education. Gearing For Mainstream School From The Start At the Shepherd Centre, many of these children learned to listen and talk with their families after their hearing issues were

8 years ago 1 Comment Education, Hearing, Language Developmentaccess, auditory-verbal, book, books, captions, child, children, cochlear, communication, deaf, deafness, education, family, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, language, learn, learning, listening, literacy, mainstream, outcome, parent, parents, peer, preschool, read, reading, school, schools, social, speak, speaking, speech, spoken, talk, teach, teacher, technology, therapy, words

#AVTchat 4: Techniques And Second Language Learning

The fourth Twitter #AVTchat hosted by Sound Advice for engaged parents, is shared here. Primary topics were ideas for home AVT sessions (a therapist typically will suggest these) and learning a second spoken language, when the first is actively learned. ICYMI: #AVTchat 4: Techniques And Second Language Learning is on #Storify! https://t.co/hQ7nXp2OT3 #auditoryverbaltherapy — Caroline

8 years ago Education, Hearing, Language Developmentaccess, auditory verbal therapy, auditory-verbal, book, books, child, children, cochlear, communication, deaf, deafness, education, family, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, Ireland, language, learn, learning, listen, literacy, mainstream, parent, parents, preschool, read, reading, school, schools, social, speech, talk, talking, teach, teacher, technology, words

Apps For Speech & Phonological Awareness

Families (and adult cochlear implant wearers) routinely ask Sound Advice to recommend apps at different stages in their path to digital hearing – often for the first time. Speech & language development have close links to early literacy skills, therefore parents and caregivers who actively read and talk with their children are likely to raise

9 years ago 2 Comments Education, Hearing, Language Development, Smartphonesaccess, accessible, app, book, books, child, children, cochlear, communication, concept, deaf, deafness, device, digital, education, family, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, Ireland, language, learn, learning, listening, literacy, mainstream, parent, parents, platform, preschool, read, reading, school, schools, screen, skills, social, speech, students, teach, teachers, teaching, technology, time, training, visual, words

Talking To Young Children Grows Their Brains

With a child’s oral vocabulary at age two (speaking & understanding) predicting academic and behavioural outcomes in later years, parents can ask how to teach their baby about sound and meaning. Talking to your baby [with hearing devices on] is the secret! Toddler Babble Is Language Progress By some estimates, over 90 percent of a

9 years ago 2 Comments Education, Hearing, Language Developmentaccessibility, app, apps, book, child, children, cochlear, communication, creche, deaf, deafness, development, digital, early, ECCE, education, family, growth, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, Ireland, language, learning, literacy, mainstream, parent, parenting, parents, preschool, read, reading, social, speech, teach, teaching, technology, training, visual, vocabulary, words, years

Archives