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“Being Born Deaf Is No Barrier” – One Mum’s View

Parents can be thrown on learning their baby or child is deaf, but with time, everyone finds what works for their family. As parent Lisa Ridge Valentine says, “If somebody told me how Nansi and Annie would be at four and five, I wouldn’t have the same worries I had when we were told they were

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Speaking Ability Helps With Mainstream Education

Childrens’ speech and spoken-word recognition skills can influence their mainstream school placement, according to new research from Tel Aviv University. Early detection of hearing issues and intervention strategies are confirmed in this research as vital preparation for the childrens’ education. Read: Speaking skills crucial for children in the classroom Notably, the study concluded that hearing

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Families To Write To Health Minister On Implants

Families of children with cochlear implants in Ireland are to write to the Minister for Health, Dr James Reilly, after broadsheet paper The Examiner revealed over 350 children must wait up to six years for second implants. Read: Reilly urged to fund ear implants programme A parent posted information to Sound Advice’s Facebook page after asking Beaumont

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Bilateral Implant Wait List Concerns Irish Parents

After this post, families in Ireland organised via the Sound Advice Facebook group, into the ‘Happy New Ear’ campaign for bilateral implants. At end-2013, the HSE announced that bilateral pediatric cochlear implants in Ireland would be funded. Despite the progress of Ireland’s national newborn hearing test programme, parents have concerns about the lack of two (bilateral) cochlear implant

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Video Captions – The ‘Missing Piece’ in Education

Using captioned video in mainstream classrooms brings ‘hidden benefits’ for teachers and students, as software firm Zane Education clearly explains. When Bill Clinton talks subtitles for literacy, we must act. What’s your move? Read: Subtitles – The “Missing Piece” In Education Within six weeks, childrens’ reading and literacy skills can improve by up to one year when

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Video: What Sound Advice Is About, And What We Do

In autumn 2012, Sound Advice’s pitch won a professionally-produced, promotional video in a CSR give-away by Dublin firm, Tailored Films. Here’s the result. Sound Advice is very grateful to Tailored Films for donating their skills to our cause, and to everyone featured, for giving valuable time to make this video. More Reading What Are ‘The Different

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Deaf Pilots Harness New Hearing Technologies

Piloting planes? Impossible for people with hearing issues? Wrong! Prepare to change your thinking after reading these personal accounts. Read: Deaf pilot spreads the word: You can fly As this pilot reveals, “[using visual cues for] deaf and hard-of-hearing people applies to everyone using English as a second language”, with safety enhanced for both types

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Two “Talented Boys, Living Life To The Full”

Parents who choose for their children to have cochlear implants can worry how their choice will be seen by others. One mother tells her story – but what gives others the right to try to influence, or to query her decisions? Read more: ” I questioned myself as a mother “ When making choices for

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How NZ’s Hearing Tests Lead To Early Intervention

New Zealand’s newborn hearing test and early intervention programme has run since 2010, with about 170 babies born per year with hearing issues. Read more: Opening A Door To The World Of Sound Pathways lead from this national newborn hearing test service, to early intervention programs with the family’s chosen communication method. One service is

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How Policy Can Lag The Real Grassroots Reality

Policy for deaf children in different countries around the world can lag actual reality on the ground. Several articles the Sound Advice team read recently, make interesting reading. Our question is, what statistics are national/federal policy makers not getting – and why exactly? Listening And Talking Within The CRPD Case in point: a mother in Monterrey,

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