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Five Questions: Alanna Kilroy, Business Student

” I think the biggest obstacle is getting people to realize not all deaf people use ASL; a lot can actually speak, write well, and carry on long conversations in sometimes non-ideal settings.” We interviewed Alanna Kilroy, a business student at Boston University, who uses cochlear implants, is verbal and studied in the UK for

#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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Jacoti: Hearing Apps With A Universal Design

Jacoti BBVA, the cloud-based hearing applications provider from which consumer electronics firms can license IP-protected solutions, is a contender in the Global Mobile Awards 2017. Mobile device users use the Jacoti Hearing Suite to customise and monitor their hearing experience, with typical hearing or to achieve sound amplification with(out) hearing device/s. Digital hearing-aids and cochlear implants can be connected

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Soapbox Labs: Speech To Text In Education

Soapbox Labs, a Dublin-based startup that builds speech-to-text technology to analyse young children’s literacy in noisy settings like kitchens, cafes and cars, has raised €1.2 million in a financing round backed by Enterprise Ireland, Elkstone Capital and Astia Angels. Potential Redirection For Classroom Captions Data algorithms generated by Soapbox use 600,000 audio samples collected from

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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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Educators Piloting Avenue PM Literacy Software

With about six million children in the US having hearing issues, the US Department of Education is investing almost US$ 900,000 into a software suite to track and monitor oral literacy progress in both mainstream and supported education programs. Forty-nine US states with 500 teachers and 1000 students are piloting the Avenue PM product, named

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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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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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