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Feilte 2013: School Acoustics From A Pupil’s View

Earlier this year, Ireland’s Teaching Council invited all registered members to apply in a lottery to attend Feilte, its festival of digital-teaching projects to celebrate World Teachers’ Day in Dublin, on October 5th, 2013. IDK was later invited to present on classroom acoustics at the conference. With 75% of a school-day consisting of students listening to

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‘Children Are Made Smart From Conversations’

Earlier this year, Chicago-based ENT surgeon Dana Suskind, was mentioned on this site for her Thirty Million Words project. Working with children who have cochlear implants raised her interest into how spoken language builds when family conversations are facilitated – in babies and children with/out hearing issues. Read: Want Smart Kids? Talk – And Listen – To

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Media Quote – Living A Life Less Ordinary

IDK is cited in the “Living A Life Less Ordinary” feature in the ‘Living’ section (p.15) of the Independent, a broadsheet newspaper in Ireland (28/9/2013). Context Is Everything The context derives from Sound Advice’s post on Andrew Solomon’s book, “Far From The Tree”, with a critical review of the issues it raises on personal identity.In identity terms,

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Live Video Chats Suit Toddler Language-Learning

Toddlers may learn spoken language faster via video which is interactive, such as Skype or video-conferencing, according to research from Temple University and the respective Universities of Delaware and Washington. Toddlers learn language faster via interactive video Notably, the toddlers in this research learned new words only during live video chats (back/forth conversation), and not

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Listening And Speaking: A Refocus For Teachers

Teacher-training to work with children who have hearing issues is altering in the US with new demand for teachers who can teach listening-and-spoken language (LSL) when working with children who wear hearing devices. Read: PACS gets USD 1.18mn from US Department of Education Specifically, the US Department of Education is funding the training of 40 teachers in LSL and

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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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Newborn Hearing Tests And AVT Give A Solid Start

Newborn hearing testing in the UK means Lacey Bradley now sings and plays guitar in a music club. She first got hearing-aids at two weeks old, before her bilateral cochlear implants at age three and four, respectively. Newborn Hearing Tests Give A Solid Start Read: Lacey’s progress a sound reason for baby testing Outcomes are

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Happy Sixth Birthday, Sound Advice!

Sound Advice (formerly IDK) is six years old today (Aug. 28th, 2013). For a venture that began with €5k and a website name, that’s a real achievement in a recession, particularly when change-making is a priority. Six years with no core, church or state funding This self-financing is a big Sound Advice ‘win’. Another is

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How AIT’s Audiology Course Is Being Accredited

Twenty-one students taking the four-year BSc. degree in Audiology at AIT (Athlone Institute of Technology) in Ireland, reached a High Court settlement to complete three remaining years of the degree course, which was suddenly dropped last June after concluding its first year (2012-13). According to the Irish Times, this settlement is a once-off, hinting that

Ten Commandments For Kids With Hearing Issues

Infants who get hearing-intervention by six months old have better results, according to multiple researchers. Dedicated audiologists aim for a one-three-six model of good practice: screening by one month old hearing-aid/s by three months, and spoken language intervention by six months Read: Ten Hearing-Commandments For Children Infants’ consistent use of hearing-devices from their first

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