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Captioning 101 For The University Context

Realtime live captions support a broader range of attendees at university and college-hosted events like classes, sports events, guest lectures, theatre performances and student commencements at a more cost-effective price, according to UniversityBusiness.com. The problem with using ASL as a blanket solution for [deaf students] is that many hard-of-hearing students don’t know sign language. Now hearing-impaired

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Return To Lisbon For #WebSummit 2017

The annual Web Summit event – originating in Dublin, Ireland – gets dismissed by Ireland’s press but has grown into a respectable, mature conference attended by leaders, movers and shakers from the tech and other worlds. Dublin’s 2013 event was the first attended by Sound Advice, with 2014 bringing an attempt to redress the gender

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Australia Leaves Each Deaf Child $10K Short For AVT

On average, each deaf child in Australia is left AUD $10,000 short of public funding to access early intervention listening and spoken language services from birth to age three, with non-governmental organisations fundraising the balance, according to recent media reports. #Australia: Each #deaf child $10K short for hearing-and-talking #earlyintervention. https://t.co/79wSkNaDit #NDIS @FirstVoiceAus (@guardian) — Caroline

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Early Intervention By One-Three-Six Months

Ninety-six per cent of infants in the US have a newborn hearing test by one month old, but many do not access the Early Hearing Detection Intervention guidelines of 1-3-6 months, or detection by one month, evaluation by 3 months and intervention by 6 months, researcher Christine Yoshinaga-Itano says. Notably, just half of deaf babies

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Careers In Speech To Text Reporting

Captioning is a lifeline in lectures, seminars and conferences for attendees who’re deaf, hard of hearing or use English as a second or other language. Typical users don’t know or use sign language and can capture notes from sessions, thanks to stenographers, palantypists or court reporters providing CART (Communication Access in Real-Time) on their behalf. CART In Higher Education

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Closing Educational Gaps For Deaf Children

Demand for specialist teachers of speaking deaf children is so high that all graduates from the teaching program at California Lutheran University (CLU) were hired out of their course before summer 2017 began. Summer camps for verbal children with hearing issues to build peer support and address learning gaps are similarly growing in the US, with

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Financial Misdealings At The CIDP

Reports of financial misdealings by the Catholic Institute for Deaf People (CIDP) featured in Ireland’s national press in July 2017, after a Health Service Executive (HSE) audit of entities that receive its annual funding allocations. The CIDP manages specialist deaf education including the Holy Family School (amalgamated from St Mary’s and St Joseph’s Schools), the Deaf Education

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Spoken Language Best For Kids With Implants

Researcher Ann Geers, (Pediatrics, June 2017) published some very compelling data about children with cochlear implants and sign language use. Specifically, no advantage existed for parents to use sign language before or after an infant underwent cochlear implant surgery. Overall, deaf children with implants who never learned sign language had better language, reading and spoken language

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Audiologists’ Role In Deaf Children Talking

Audiologist supply and quality hearing services are vital for born-deaf infants to get to hear and talk, according to Susan Daniels, CEO of the UK’s National Deaf Childrens’ Society. In a recent Huffington Post article, Daniels emphasises: Audiologists, hearing specialists in hospitals and health centres, are a vital lifeline for the 45,000 deaf children in the UK

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Five Questions: Shari Eberts, Hearing Health Advocate

Shari Eberts is a hearing health advocate, writer, and avid Bikram yogi. She blogs at LivingWithHearingLoss.com and serves on the Board of Trustees of Hearing Loss Association of America. Shari has an adult-onset genetic hearing loss and hopes that by sharing her story it will help others to live more peacefully with their own hearing issues. Connect with

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