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Write-Up Of IDK’s Tech Event (Oct 10th, 2011)

Irish Deaf Kids held a technology and education event in Dublin on October 10th, 2011. The event proved to be invaluable for all attendees, and was put together to give parents, educators and other stakeholders in-depth insights to how deaf and hard-of-hearing (hoh) children can use digital tools to better communicate and learn in a

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Making Literacy And Classroom Tools Accessible

As everyday home, school and teaching content becomes digitised, more accessible literacy-learning tools are needed, particularly for younger children encountering spoken-language vocabulary and grammar structures for the first time. In 2010, “A Usability Guide to Intelligent Web Tools for the Literacy of Deaf People” was published in Italy. Several key points are noted: the age at which

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12 years ago 6 Comments Captions, Education, Hearing, Language Developmentaccess, accessible, book, books, classroom, concept, content, device, devices, digital, digitised, e-learning, families, family, grammar, home, language, literacy, predominate, preschool, read, reading, reusable, school, schools, signed, social, software, structure, structures, syntax, teachers, technology, verbal, visual, vocabulary, web-based, words, writing

Web Technologies Make Storytelling Inclusive

Twelve UK publishers are using web technologies to present contemporary childrens’ books in sign language with audio, animation and text in a GBP1.5 million project to improve literacy levels among deaf children. The project, www.signedstories.com, offers a free online library of signed books for deaf children to develop their literacy & language skills, whether signed

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