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How Policy Can Lag The Real Grassroots Reality

Policy for deaf children in different countries around the world can lag actual reality on the ground. Several articles the Sound Advice team read recently, make interesting reading. Our question is, what statistics are national/federal policy makers not getting – and why exactly? Listening And Talking Within The CRPD Case in point: a mother in Monterrey,

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UK’s Hearing-Services See Losses – Plus Gains

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

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Cochlear Implants Appreciated By Their Recipients

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

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Deafness Is Different In The Digital-Hearing Age

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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Massachusetts Prices The Cost Of Not Intervening

In 2012, the US-based Massachusetts Hearing Aids for Children Coalition (MassHACC) founded in 2009, had a bill passed into law, to offset the cost of digital hearing-aids to families with children who have hearing issues. Their debating point was that: Children who do not receive early intervention [for deafness] cost schools an additional $420,000 [each] and face overall

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Apps For Son’s Language Development (Part 2)

In this second of two posts, the mum of a five-year-old boy who was implanted this year, shares details of their favourite apps for language development. Part One of this post, went live last week. Second Favourite App: I broke this group into my son’s three favourites! I am a huge believer in reading stories

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Transitioning From Higher Education To Work

In October 2012, Sound Advice’s Caroline Carswell presented at the “Transition From Higher Education To Work” conference, organised in Ghent, Belgium by the pan-European entity LINK (Learning Inclusively Network + Know-how). Caroline’s topic outlined how parents, educators, policymakers, students, career advisors and employers need to be fully informed on deafness for real change. The presentation

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Apps For Son’s Language Development (Part 1)

For this two-part post, the mum of a five-year-old boy who was implanted this year, shares details of their favourite apps for language development. Part Two of this post, will follow next week. My Playhome: My PlayHome is an interactive doll house for the iGeneration with a kitchen, living room, garden, children’s bedroom, parents’ bedroom

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South Africa’s Solid Model For Inclusive Education

In South Africa, Pretoria’s Eduplex (Educational Complex) is a mainstream school for the spoken-language needs of children with hearing issues, its classrooms having planned acoustics and optimised technology for learning. Read more: Changing Deaf Education In South Africa Five children in each class are deaf, with their classmates benefiting from the school’s strong emphasis on

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Does Lip-Reading Benefit Infant Reading Ability?

With babies known to acquire literacy skills from birth, the availability of picture cards, board/cloth books, posters and materials gives a head-start. Reading is a vital way for children with hearing issues to access information in their daily environments – for educational, social and computer literacy. Seeing And Hearing Words Together A researcher in Italy, Dominic

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