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Masks Stymie Deaf Professionals

Mask wearing, during covid 19 times. A hot topic, with science showing the way for most. But how do professionals who’re deaf, navigate a true challenge to their professional competence? The Paediatric (Pediatric) Doctor Hundreds of HCPs in the UK NHS happen to be deaf, @DocFizzabella among them. Since March 2020, shortage of accessible PPE

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Teen Sues School District Over Lack Of Supports

School districts in the US are challenged by students’ new technologies, such as cochlear implants and CART (communication access in real time) captions. In fact, a few lawsuits have occurred around provision of CART in classrooms, with another case just reaching the headlines: Video: Student sues school district for supports Each story has two sides,

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Cued Speech Finding Its Place In A Long Debate

Cued Speech may be finding its place with digital hearing-devices. From the 1960s, Cued Speech was seen as “too oral” by signing deaf people and “too manual” by families using the verbal approach, but this could be changing. Right On Cue: Cued Speech For Communication Reasons For Using Cued Speech Literacy and reading skills are

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Winning Strategies From NFL’s Derrick Coleman

Just before SuperBowl 2014, Seattle Seahawks player Derrick Coleman, who is deaf – burst onto our screens in an inspired video-commercial from Duracell. The video tells his story of growing up after losing his hearing aged three – and of kicking the lifelong naysayers around him, into touch. “You’re deaf. So what?” For young people

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Educators Optimising Universal Literacy Software

Three educators are optimising a software product for students with hearing issues to access audio-visual content, to achieve a universal design for a concurrent, mainstream student pool that was not envisaged at the outset. Educators Build Web-Based Literacy Assessment Software AvenueDHH Platform The product, AvenueDHH, gives educators a standardised way to measure student literacy while allowing

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Biographies And Novels With Deaf Characters

Teens and young people who read books with characters who’re deaf or hard-of-hearing can affirm their own identity to themselves while learning new skills for everyday challenges and the value of digital technologies. Powell’s Bookstore in Portland, Oregon, has the biggest range of titles on deafness and hearing that we’ve ever seen in one extensive

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New Study: Babies Learn Language By Lip-reading

All babies lip-read from about 6 months of age, to learn mouth-shapes for the sounds they hear, according to researchers at Florida Atlantic University. When a baby gazes intently at a speaker’s mouth, this indicates they are working to learn to form syllables for themselves, instead of just babbling. Read: Babies Learn Language By Reading

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Lipreading: The Challenges And Benefits (Part 1)

Everyone lipreads to an extent regardless of their hearing, to get a sense of what people are saying to us. Deaf and hard-of-hearing people can rely almost fully on lip-reading, as they may not have the sound input to know what others are saying to them, or to follow a conversation. Charlie Swinbourne, a deaf writer

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The Need To ‘Re-Think Learning’ For Universality

Earlier this year, IDK posted Telepractice For Low-Cost Language Teaching as one solution for Ireland’s shortage of speech and language teachers. Telepractice, the name for this remote teaching approach, is defined as the use of top-rate video-conferencing for the delivery of professional services. Tech-news site ZDNet recently ran a piece “Re-Think Learning“, to explain how online

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iPhone FaceTime App Levels The Video-Chat Field

Initially the Apple iPhone, a relative newcomer to the Irish telecoms market, may seem to be just another gadget, but there’s a lot more to it. The iPhone 4 differs from its predecessors in being marketed for video calls, media consumption, web and e-mail access. Most relevantly, it supports the FaceTime application which none of

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