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One Parent’s Feedback: National Audiology Review

The National Audiology Review is inviting submissions from parents & carers of deaf children and service users, before March 19, 2010. This feedback is from a mother of a 4 year old boy who was diagnosed as being profoundly deaf at 14 months old. 1. Newborn Hearing Screening: Why do babies not automatically have hearing

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YouTube Automatic Captioning Moves Out Of Beta

In recent years websites such as CaptionTube and independent services made videos and audio more accessible to deaf or hard of hearing people. In November 2009, Google announced the automatic captioning of videos on its YouTube site to boost captioning provision and support text indexing. Existing captioning services are not always user friendly or free.

14 years ago 4 Comments Captions, Education, Hearingaccess, accessible, auto, automatic, caption, captioning, college, digital, Google, include, inclusion, internet, learn, learning, listen, listening, media, school, speech, teach, teacher, text, tool, tools, video, videos, word, words

The Value Of SMS Texting To Deaf Youngsters

At Griffith College, Cork, SMS texts are used to advise students of cancelled classes. Texting is a simple and often free method of communication that is available to anyone with a mobile phone. And these users range from young kids given phones by parents just in case of an emergency, to the elderly who may

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Teacher Question: Sourcing A Soundfield System

A teacher recently asked IDK how to source a soundfield system for a child at their school. The system needed to be movable between classrooms. Our first response was to ask if the school has any contact with the Visiting Teacher service for deaf students at the Department of Education (DES). If yes, the visiting

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IDK & Special Stories on TV3’s Ireland:AM Show

TV3’s Ireland:AM team invited Caroline Carswell from IDK, and Kate Gaynor from Special Stories, into the studio to talk about their “Birthday For Ben” book after Special Stories received a Moonbeam award in the US during late 2009. The video clip of the interview is online at the TV3 website. Subtitled video clips are also

15 years ago Hearingbook, books, child, children, education, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, interview, literacy, parents, reading, school, show, studio, teachers, TV

Schools ‘Must Change Their Attitude To Disability’

Ann Heelan, executive director of AHEAD (Association for Higher Education Access and Disability), recently had an excellent piece in The Irish Times. A key point in the article states: ” Children with disabilities can learn as much as other children when given the right tools and the right learning environment. Technology can make a significant

15 years ago 7 Comments Hearingaccess, accessible, children, class, deaf, disabilities, disability, early, employers, environment, inclusion, inclusive, job, jobs, learn, learning, pupil, resources, school, teacher, technology, tools, work

‘Experience’ Books From Off We Go! Publishing

Irish company, Off We Go! Publishing, has released a set of books for children to learn about different first-time experiences in early life. These books benefit those with special needs and any young child experiencing these outings for the first time. Twelve different titles are in the series, including “Going on a Plane’, “Going to

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Talking Your Way Into A Relevant Graduate Job

“Sorting post in the mailroom of a large UK publishing house wasn’t what I went to university for. Admittedly the job was in the right field – publishing – the subject of my post-graduate diploma. The difficulty lay in convincing my new colleagues to see my potential, and not to focus on my hearing issues

15 years ago 3 Comments Education, Hearingabilities, ability, access, advocacy, awareness, colleagues, contact, contacts, corporate, diversity, editing, editor, education, employer, employment, equality, graduate, hearing, HR, inclusion, IT, job, journalism, leader, literacy, management, manager, marketing, network, office, preconceptions, publishing, reading, reception, recruiter, recruitment, software, systems, talk, team, technology, upskill, work, workforce, writing

Parent Question – Auditory Neuropathy (AN)

A parent recently asked IDK about Auditory Neuropathy (AN), after searching online for details about the condition. “Think about driving your car with the radio on, but you have a frayed wire somewhere between the radio and the speaker system. The sound is entering the perfectly operational radio but is not able to get through

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The Lamh Sign Language – A Mother’s Feedback

The Lamh sign language is used in creches, preschools & schools around the country. However, a significant number of parents, carers and teachers expressed concerns to IDK (now Sound Advice) about being unable to give children full access to the Lamh language due to its current training structure. To promote discussion, we are sharing a

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