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Schools Adapting To Students With Implants

School districts across the US are challenged when updating education policies for mainstreaming deaf children who wear hearing devices and cochlear implants at local schools. While early intervention saves over US $200,000 per student for children with cochlear implants, parents across the US are applying for education services geared to children with these digital hearing

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Student Fights Four Years For Classroom Captions

For four years, Delanie Harrington, a student at California’s Poway High School, has sought classroom captions – and her family continues the fight, to ensure future students access these captions and ‘live’ classroom notes. Read: Poway High School student fights for education Harrington’s story is very typical of families who actively break ground in education systems,

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Cochlear Implants Misconstrued In The Economist

On July 20th 2013, The Economist published a very damaging article about cochlear implants, which give families with born-deaf children valuable opportunities, such as using two spoken languages in the family home. Read: Listen Up: Technology That Lets Deaf People Hear Team Sound Advice recommends reading the below response from the founder of the Cochlear

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Webinar: “The Why And How Of Online Captions”

Frameweld, the New York-based digital media firm, hosted an excellent webinar, “The Why and How of Online Captioning” on June 26th, 2013. All videos, slides and Q&A topics from the webinar are in this blog post: Review: The Why And How Of Online Captioning This topic is pertinent, with leading educational institutions tasked to find affordable

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Parent Query: Behaviour Guidance For Children

Several parents recently asked about behaviour guidance for children who’re deaf or hard-of-hearing, so these insights and resources may help. On the behaviour front, young children who’re deaf or hard-of-hearing can be harder to guide as they don’t always hear a particular tone of voice or verbal warning that another child might detect and respond

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Language Parallels Seen In Deafness And Dyslexia

New research from the US has uncovered parallels in language-processing by two groups of children with hearing issues, and children with dyslexia. The study at Ohio State University looks at the links between hearing and language skills (children with cochlear implants, and children with dyslexia). Read: Studies On Deaf Children May Decode Dyslexia Importantly, this study

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