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‘New Fad Open-Plan Classrooms’ Not Conducive To Learning
Childrens’ speech perception drops visibly in open plan classrooms, disturbing their efforts to hear discussions with peers and teachers, and leading to chronic listening fatigue. Read: Students struggle to hear teachers in new fad open-plan classrooms Teachers in open-plan classrooms reported greater vocal strain amid concerns that the children could not hear their voices, leading researchers to conclude that acoustically treated, enclosed classrooms make
Australia’s Mount View School Offers An AVT Facility
Progressive auditory-verbal approaches at Mount View Deaf Facility within the mainstream Mount View Primary School in Glen Waverley, (Australia), are presented in this report. Read: Learning side by side helps deaf children thrive Marilyn Dann, the facility’s first coordinator, now lectures at Melbourne University and says: Often we would hear our deaf students begin to use
Tech To Watch: Auditory Brainstem Implants
Children believed unlikely to benefit from routine cochlear implants now have the option of auditory brainstem implants (ABIs), some years behind cochlear implants in testing terms. Several reports on ABIs featured in the online press recently: Read: Research Breaks Sound Barrier For Kids Lacking A Hearing Nerve ABIs were available outside the US since 2005 but in the US got given only to children
Different Outcomes For Children Born In The UK After 2006
Deafness is not a learning disability, as the NDCS routinely reminds us. However, the UK’s education system is not ‘failing’ children who are deaf, as this headline suggests. Rather, the infants’ education begins at home with their families, once their hearing difficulties are confirmed with a diagnosis and hearing-devices ideally accessed at the earliest opportunity. Children Born After 2006 Accessed UNHS
Child With DS Hears And Talks With Cochlear Implants
A child with Down Syndrome can hear and talk, thanks to teamwork by the cochlear implant team at California’s Lucile Packhard Childrens’ Hospital and the Jean Weingarten School. Read: Cochlear Implants Give Child With Down Syndrome A New Lease On Life Doctors told the family, “you’re doing too much for him”, as they battled to get medical insurance for the cochlear implants
Soundfield Technology As An Equaliser In All Classrooms
Soundfields have universal benefit as a solution introduced for children and students who have hearing difficulties, with positive outcomes noted for everyone in the learning space. Progressive schools in the United States are building soundfields into new classrooms for this reason – notably as solutions facilitate collaborative teaching and learning activities. That’s the beauty of classroom technology: it can be differentiated at
A Letter To A Visionary Speech Therapist
Dublin January, 2015 Dear Mrs Speechie (as you always will be known), In recent months we discussed how today’s deaf children can become verbal, thanks to newborn hearing tests and timely access to cochlear implants and digital hearing devices. Some areas of concern still existed however – namely that: Ireland has lacked a specialist speech therapist for deaf
Skype Speech-To-Text Option Delivers Captions
Educators, speech therapists and healthcare workers who use Skype, will like this news. Skype has developed its Translator beta tool to remove spoken-language barriers between different nationalities (and shared-nationalities, in the case of people with hearing issues). English and Spanish are the first two languages supported by Skype Translator, which uses machine-learning to achieve smarter outcomes
Early Hearing And Speech Services Benefit Childrens’ Reading
For the last blog post of 2014, here are some recent media pieces, to remind ourselves how early access to hearing and speech services can improve childrens’ life prospects. Lydia Denworth (author of I Can Hear You Whisper) Lydia Denworth’s recent post in Time Magazine, Raising A Deaf Child Makes The World Sound Different, will resonate with parents of
eBook: Teaching A Deaf Child To Hear And Speak
Edited by Caroline Carswell