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Ninety-Five Decibels: A Film About Parent Choices

Ninety-Five Decibels, a crowd-funded US-made film about the emotional choices parents face on learning their baby is deaf, will launch in September 2013 with Goran Visnjic from the TV series ER, in a lead role. This film makes some vital points: Digital hearing aids and cochlear implants give infants who are deaf or hard of

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Video7 years ago 3 Comments Education, Hearing, Language Developmentapproach, audiologist, auditory, auditory verbal therapy, avt, bilateral, bionic, child, children, choice, choices, cochlear, deaf, deafness, device, devices, digital, education, family, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, informed, listening, literacy, mainstream, parent, parents, preschool, social, speak, speaking, speech, spoken, teach, teacher, teachers, teaching, technology, therapy, verbal, words

What Is The ‘Deaf Debate’ With Cochlear Implants?

What is the “deaf debate” with cochlear implants? Why can they be seen as controversial? This is one of the best pieces we’ve read on the topic, to date. Read: The Deaf Culture versus Oral-Only Debate Many people are curious about this debate, as a result of the Happy New Ear campaign which is seeking

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Learned Helplessness: When Less Support Is More

School supports and resource-teaching allocations raise the question of how much support a child actually needs in a classroom, or in a school. Has anyone asked if certain children need help, and if so – when exactly, just how much help, and at what stage of schooling? The Sound Advice team knows of SNA requests for

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Early Implants Best For Baby’s Language Progress

In the US, two to three children in every 1000 births is born profoundly deaf, 90% of these babies into hearing families. The average age for a baby to receive a cochlear implant is falling, with research showing babies of 6 to 9 months to benefit more from the technology, than even at 12 months,

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7 years ago 1 Comment Education, Hearing, Language Developmentbrain, caregiver, child, children, cochlear, communication, creche, deaf, deafness, development, early, education, family, gap, group, hearing, home, inclusion, inclusive, infant, intervention, language, listening, mainstream, parent, parents, plasticity, preschool, school, schools, speaking, speech, spoken, teach, teacher, teachers, teaching, verbal, vocabulary, window, years

Florida Legislates For The Auditory-Verbal Option

Parents of newly-identified children who’re profoundly deaf, have a lot going on. Not least, they must make hearing and communication choices on behalf of the children, and decide how the family is going to communicate in general. Recently, the US state of Florida passed legislation for parents to be told of all the possible communication options

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7 years ago 1 Comment Education, Hearing, Language Developmentapproach, auditory, auditory-verbal, book, books, chat, chatterbox, child, children, choice, cochlear, communication, concept, conversation, directed, documented, exchange, exchanges, family, focused, formal, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, informed, interaction, Ireland, learn, learning, literacy, mainstream, online, option, parent, parents, peer, preschool, proof, read, reading, research, school, schools, session, skills, social, speak, speaking, specialised, speech, talk, talking, teach, teacher, teachers, teaching, therapist, therapy, training, verbal, visual, words, writing, written

Deano – The Gift Of A Hearing Dog

Random conversations can be life-changing, often without our knowledge. In October 2010, a lady asked Sound Advice if Hearing Dogs are trained in Ireland. She has severe bilateral hearing issues and believed a trained dog would restore some independence by alerting her to everyday sounds in her environment. Knowing most Hearing Dogs are trained in the

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A Nurse With Hearing Issues Retrains In Audiology

Nursing – and audiology. Two degrees that a deaf person might not think of, or be encouraged to take. Zoe Williams, of Ballarat, Victoria (Australia), has changed that perception. Now a qualified audiologist, she shares her story. See / Read: A Day In The Life of An Audiologist Zoe says she doesn’t have anything more

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A Critique On Deaf Identity In "Far From The Tree"

The award-winning book by Andrew Solomon, “Far From The Tree: Parents, Children And The Search For Identity” (November 2012), gives a very one-sided view of deafness, says US-based journalist Lisa A. Goldstein – who is deaf and verbal, with cochlear implants. Read Goldstein’s Critical Review: Far From The Truth Goldstein reminds us of the “anonymous

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Introduction To Auditory Verbal Therapy (Belfast)

Auditory-Verbal Therapy (AVT) is a parent-centred approach to enabling children with deafness to learn to talk by listening with digital hearing-devices from infancy, where possible. The UK had 14 certified AVT therapists (in 2013), and on April 27th (2013) a free 2-hour information session on AVT was held in Belfast for parents of deaf children

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Lip-Reading Challenges In The Hearing World

Having to verbally “translate” for signing deaf friends who do not lip-read, confirmed this skill to Rachel Kolb, a masters student at Stanford University in California. She writes eloquently here, about the challenges of lip-reading. Read: Seeing At The Speed Of Sound In a TEDxStanford talk (June 2013), Rachel Kolb talked of being deaf in a hearing world,

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