Piloting planes? Impossible for people with hearing issues? Wrong! Prepare to change your thinking after reading these personal accounts. Read: Deaf pilot spreads the word: You can fly As this pilot reveals, “[using visual cues for] deaf and hard-of-hearing people applies to everyone using English as a second language”, with safety enhanced for both types
Parents who choose for their children to have cochlear implants can worry how their choice will be seen by others. One mother tells her story – but what gives others the right to try to influence, or to query her decisions? Read more: ” I questioned myself as a mother “ When making choices for
It makes perfect sense. Carrie Spangler, an educational audiologist in Ohio, was mainstream-educated as a child and teen with hearing issues. She’s now mentoring teen students like herself, who are in mainstream classrooms with hearing peers. Read more: Hitting Her Stride The advice in business is to use what you know, as Carrie Spangler is
Amy Jordan, a student at a mainstream (Irish-speaking) gaelscoil in Dublin, shares her experiences with exams and teachers while using a FM system with hearing-aids at school. Read more: Mainstream Education Through Irish Recently, Amy did a week’s work experience with Sound Advice, to learn more about working with deaf children in Ireland, a career area
New Zealand’s newborn hearing test and early intervention programme has run since 2010, with about 170 babies born per year with hearing issues. Read more: Opening A Door To The World Of Sound Pathways lead from this national newborn hearing test service, to early intervention programs with the family’s chosen communication method. One service is
Mixed developments are impacting the UK’s public hearing-services. Regional audiology services are making gains or losses around the UK, based on budgets – but research into providing national school hearing tests for children aged 4 to 6 is under way. These school-based hearing tests, if rolled out nationally, will be a vital link in the hearing-check
Cochlear implants are constantly in the news, ranging from the youngest-yet recipient in the UK (7 months) to the gains reported by older recipients. Certain individuals don’t want to consider an implant, for their own reasons, but the digital hearing technology (and processes) are steadily improving with research advances. Growing Up With Cochlear Implants When
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
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