Teaching for deaf children and young adults worldwide has altered in recent years, with digital hearing technologies and speech-to-text tools, according to a report from Project Forum, at the (US) National Association of State Directors of Special Education. The Digital-Hearing Age Infants are being given access to digital hearing at an ever earlier age. Advances in newborn
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
Most parents are not prepared to learn that their child is deaf or hard-of-hearing, and can experience a full spectrum of emotions on receiving the news. UK writer Oliver Dennis, is very honest about his own emotions when he learned his daughter was deaf (Sunday Times magazine, April 15th). Read more: What It Feels Like
A parent recently asked IDK about Auditory Neuropathy (AN), after searching online for details about the condition. “Think about driving your car with the radio on, but you have a frayed wire somewhere between the radio and the speaker system. The sound is entering the perfectly operational radio but is not able to get through
Most deaf children with residual hearing can learn to lip-read and speak when digital hearing devices and speech therapy are available from a very early age (zero to three). Free eBook For Families Teaching Spoken Language Try this ebook, “Teaching A Deaf Child To Hear And Talk: Perfectly!” (PDF format) This is called the oral approach. For hearing
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