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Spoken Multilingualism In Deaf Children

Sound Advice has posited that spoken-multilingualism is viable for infants with cochlear implants, whose good outcomes are from parent conversations after their implants are fitted. Two researchers in the US, Kate Crowe and Belinda Barnet, are exploring both these themes with countless families already knowing the two are closely linked in pedagogicial terms. Deaf Children Speaking Multiple Languages Researcher Kate Crowe,

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#Deafening Documentary: Silence Is Optional

In true spirit for World Hearing Day (March 3), Ireland’s national broadcaster, RTE, made its ‘Deafening’ documentary available for free, worldwide viewing on the RTE Player platform. This documentary sought to explore the current experience of being deaf in Ireland (avoiding a political discourse) and succeeded by representing the diversity in today’s deaf population –

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AVT Prepares Deaf Children For Mainstream School

Infant detection of child deafness, auditory verbal therapy and preschool are the bedrock for children to enjoy learning in mainstream classrooms at their local schools. Spoken-language #earlyintervention is crucial. https://t.co/6on5JEWjJ5. @ShepherdCentre — Caroline Carswell (@soundadvice_pro) February 13, 2017 Early Hearing Response Is Paramount As early-interventionist Pamala Cross explains, the 1-3-6 elements in this approach are:

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The Power Of Speech For Deaf Children

Parents and teachers working with children who hear and talk with digital hearing devices (the auditory verbal method) are always seeking inspiration. Here’s some! In June 2016, Auditory Verbal UK hosted a “The Power of Speech” graduate event at the UK’s House of Commons, at which various children engaged in public speaking with MPs, educators,

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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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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Australia’s Listening And Spoken Language Focus

With almost fifty children graduating from Australia’s Shepherd Centre after learning to listen and talk from infancy, here are some reports about their start in mainstream education. Gearing For Mainstream School From The Start At the Shepherd Centre, many of these children learned to listen and talk with their families after their hearing issues were

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