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‘Spend To Save’ On Hearing Conditions (UK)

Just recently, The Ear Foundation launched its “Spend To Save” Europe-wide report to confirm the real cost of hearing loss and how access to today’s [hearing] technology across Europe, can transform individual lives and save public funds. Actual figures put the UK’s total loss from not making hearing technology available, at the €30 billion mark when

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Classroom Captions For Mainstream Deaf Children

Auditory Sciences’ Interact-AS classroom captioning software for mainstreamed students who are deaf and hard-of-hearing has won an award for its 90 to 95 per cent accuracy rate. Technophile deaf students who read at/above fifth-grade level with a strong attention span best track the captioning speed as the teacher or others speak in the learning environment. Interact-AS™ is a

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Schools Adapting To Students With Implants

School districts across the US are challenged when updating education policies for mainstreaming deaf children who wear hearing devices and cochlear implants at local schools. While early intervention saves over US $200,000 per student for children with cochlear implants, parents across the US are applying for education services geared to children with these digital hearing

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The Thirty Million Words In A Hearing Context

A recent review in The Hearing Journal of the Thirty Million Words book by Dr Dana Suskind (pediatric cochlear implant surgeon), confirms that the approach noted by psychologists Betty Hart & Todd Risley, equally works for infants and children with hearing difficulties. Infant Spoken Language Exposure Is The Key Suskind aimed to establish why children

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Insights To AVT With Rosie Gardner

Earlier this year, Sound Advice met Rosie Gardner, head of the Sensory Support Service in the Southern region of Northern Ireland – who is now training as an auditory verbal therapist. Curiosity got the better of us, and we asked Rosie these questions: 1) What attracted you to deaf education, in the first instance? This

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Cochlear Implants In The US Embassy’s Creative Minds Series

The US Ambassador to Ireland, Kevin O’Malley, hosted the event “Wired For Sound: Treating Deafness With Cochlear Implants” at his Dublin residence on July 15, 2016. Representatives from Ireland’s National Cochlear Implant Centre, Trinity College’s Neuroengineering team and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, attended – with guests from the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Centre

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Factoring FM Systems Into Music Classes

A music teacher’s refusal to wear a FM microphone in a thirteen-year-old girl’s music class at a middle school in Vermont, US, is the focus of a state legal case on the student’s rights. Reading the legal briefing document for this case gives excellent insights to practical challenges and limits of using a FM system

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Students Want To See And Hear Podcasts

Student preferences for reviewing podcasts in class, feature in a piece contributed to The Atlantic by Michael Godsey, an English teacher based in San Luis Obispo, California. In the piece, “Why Podcasts Like ‘Serial’ Are Helping English Teachers Encourage Literacy“, Godsey saw student engagement grow when podcasts with transcripts were used in class. With 62%

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Florida Student Seeks Captions In State Tests

Fifteen year old student Payton Bogert, who is hard of hearing, is disputing accessibility in the Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) test, with an audio clip in her imminent tests. An ASL version of the audio clip exists but Bogert, who is not fluent in sign language and wants to go to Princeton University, has asked

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Spoken Language Intervention In Sri Lanka

Two infant-intervention centres in Sri Lanka are referenced here for families with children who are deaf and researching the spoken-language option with digital hearing-devices. CEHIC – Centre For Hearing Impaired Children Since 1992, the CEHIC in Dalugama has sent over 600 deaf children to mainstream schools in Sri Lanka after attending CEHIC from birth to

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