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Guide For Children To Speak A Second Language

The first-ever book for families, audiologists and teachers working to teach second, spoken languages to children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing, is now available. Its author, Michael Douglas, a certified auditory-verbal therapist (AVT), was based at the University of Houston from 2010 to 2012. Read: Dual Language-Learning for Children With Hearing Loss Some people are

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Kaltura Launches REACH Access Tools For Video

Open-source video platform, Kaltura, has launched a new accessibility suite with captioning, transcription and translation services, in-video and cross-library search, deep-linking options, metadata and keyword extraction. Kaltura launches REACH accessibility suite REACH, designed for language-learners and people with hearing issues, enables educational entities, workplaces, media firms and service providers to extend video services while meeting compliance

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Summer Camp For Media And Teamwork Skills

Media work traditionally was challenging when people had hearing issues – but digital hearing devices have changed this. Essentially, the children in this video use new media tools and presentation skills as their hearing peers do. Talking to camera in a #newsroom – and creating media! http://t.co/8FxvVF7chz #cochlearimplants #summercamp — Caroline Carswell (@irishdeafkids) June 9,

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Connected Alarm Clock And Alerter From Cenify

Two students at Rochester Institute of Technology, Patrick Seypura and Alec Satterly, who have hearing issues, are gearing for connected homes with a smartphone-based alarm clock app, to distribute via Cenify, their company. This video shows how the app and phone might work in the home context: A wireless version of the app-managed clock is

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Delivering Live Captions That Students Can Read

With today’s classrooms having multiple digital data-sources, students who read live captions are challenged by room lighting or shadows, placement of units, and fitting audio-visual media screens into each student’s line of sight. Improving Caption Experiences Researchers at the University of Rochester are tackling these issues, aware that students in these classrooms with full hearing,

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Parent Guidance For Developing Language Skills

Talking to your baby from birth [especially when hearing-devices are worn], is crucial for their infant language development. While most babies hear for two months before birth, there will be babies with hearing devices who need to build up their word and sound-vocabulary after missing sounds earlier on. Chatting During Family Time One book, Small

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Timeline For Bilateral Cochlear Implants In Ireland

A parent briefing was held in Dublin on May 10th, 2014 by the national cochlear implant centre (NCIC) in Ireland to advise parents on timelines for the bilateral cochlear implant programme to roll out from July 2014. Key dates: July 21st – First simultaneous bilateral cochlear implant surgery July 23rd – First sequential bilateral cochlear implant

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Cochlear Implants As A Disruptive Technology

We hear the term ‘disruptive technology’ used in consumer terms, one very visible example being the superseding of digital cameras by quality camera-phones. Another example was Netflix moving its services online. The writer of the below piece looks at bilateral cochlear implants in the same context: Read: Bilateral cochlear implants as a disruptive technology Defining Disruption

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Live Captions: Defining ‘Reasonable’ Facilitation

Anyone who requests live captions or CART (communication access in realtime) for an educational or training context, knows the pain points of (1) defining your hearing issues (2) explaining what CART is, and its benefits (3) arranging its provision and (4) establishing who actually pays for it. One blogger, Chelle George, describes in detail the

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Cued Speech An Option When Sounds Are Unheard

For over 30 years, families used cued speech to give deaf children visual access to sounds for lipreading (speechreading in the US) and to facilitate the child’s literacy by using the family’s language for reading and writing. Visual Cues To Speech Sounds A very small number of children (with today’s digital hearing-devices) don’t get to hear

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