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Keeping Hearing-Devices On Children At School

As new school years start, several parents have asked how to keep hearing-devices on their children, during creche, preschool or school hours. Hearing-aids and cochlear implant (CI) processors may fall off. This may be due to: The child’s ears being still very small at this stage, for a device to ‘sit’ on. The curious child

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An Intern’s View: From Journalism To Copywriting

Nicola Fox, Sound Advice’s most recent intern, shares some insights to her experience with the venture, and what she learned along the way. I applied for an internship with Sound Advice during my degree in Journalism and Visual Media and was thrilled when Caroline welcomed me aboard in December 2010. My work with Sound Advice

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HSE Takes Proactive Steps On State Hearing Tests

The HSE is to actively shorten hearing-test waiting-lists in its Mid-West area, which covers North Tipperary, Clare and Limerick, and consists of about 53 per cent adults and 47 per cent children, the Irish Medical Times reports. Read: New HSE initiative to cut hearing-test waiting list Only recently, the HSE advised that newborn hearing tests

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Implants Benefit Children With A Range Of Issues

After a child has meningitis, the family has only a small time-frame in which to plan for cochlear implant surgery. Meningitis causes the cochlea in the ear to harden soon after the illness, so quick decisions have to be made. This Kiwi family tells the story of how a cochlear implant helped their son to

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An Intern’s View: Getting To Really Communicate

Sound Advice’s latest fifth-birthday post from a past intern, is by Raluca Maier, who arrived to complete her post-graduate diploma in PR. My story at Sound Advice started in early 2011, when I had the chance to work next to Caroline Carswell on many projects. Sound Advice was launching its Facebook page, organising its workshops

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Teachers’ Assumptions: Kids With Hearing Issues

Recommended reading: when teachers learn a child with hearing issues is in their class, they may not know what to expect. This piece has solid advice for teachers in Ireland/the UK, and explains how the child may be feeling. Read: Eleven misconceptions about children with hearing issues Every child is different. Get to know your

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The Sky’s The Limit, When Parents Are Informed

From France – how the mother of a boy who’s deaf, travels abroad to have his bilateral cochlear implants mapped, and to progress his speech teaching. What’s most disturbing is that the spoken-language approach did not seem to be mentioned on the French websites for cochlear hearing devices. Read more: The Sky Is The Limit

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Family Gets Apology From HSE For Misdiagnosis

A family’s experience when their son’s deafness was misdiagnosed despite repeated hearing tests, recently featured in The Irish Examiner newspaper. Read: “If it happened to our son, it could happen to others” The family went public with fears that misdiagnoses might happen to others. Feel free to comment on this piece below, in the space provided. Further

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Healthcare Careers Highlighted To Deaf Students

Less than six per cent of people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing work in healthcare in the US, compared to almost ten per cent of people who hear. These statistics were issued by four research-partners, seeking to increase the number of deaf and hard of hearing people working in healthcare. Taskforce Reviews Healthcare Career Options

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Reflections On The Leaving Certificate Experience

Rebecca Dunne, a Dublin-based student, submitted this piece to IDK after a full week of exams. Her generous effort is appreciated! My name is Rebecca Dunne. I am deaf, with a cochlear implant. I have just finished my Leaving Certificate exams and found them really challenging, as everybody does. Because of my deafness I was

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