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Massachusetts Prices The Cost Of Not Intervening

In 2012, the US-based Massachusetts Hearing Aids for Children Coalition (MassHACC) founded in 2009, had a bill passed into law, to offset the cost of digital hearing-aids to families with children who have hearing issues. Their debating point was that: Children who do not receive early intervention [for deafness] cost schools an additional $420,000 [each] and face overall

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Apps For Son’s Language Development (Part 2)

In this second of two posts, the mum of a five-year-old boy who was implanted this year, shares details of their favourite apps for language development. Part One of this post, went live last week. Second Favourite App: I broke this group into my son’s three favourites! I am a huge believer in reading stories

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Transitioning From Higher Education To Work

In October 2012, Sound Advice’s Caroline Carswell presented at the “Transition From Higher Education To Work” conference, organised in Ghent, Belgium by the pan-European entity LINK (Learning Inclusively Network + Know-how). Caroline’s topic outlined how parents, educators, policymakers, students, career advisors and employers need to be fully informed on deafness for real change. The presentation

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Students Put Texas State University On The Spot

Two students at Texas State University have shared experiences of working with disability offices to identify and arrange supports for their own studies. One student who has hearing-aids and does not sign, disliked the recurring stereotypical belief that having a sign interpreter would benefit her studies. Consequently, she took practical action by setting up a campus

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Apps For Son’s Language Development (Part 1)

For this two-part post, the mum of a five-year-old boy who was implanted this year, shares details of their favourite apps for language development. Part Two of this post, will follow next week. My Playhome: My PlayHome is an interactive doll house for the iGeneration with a kitchen, living room, garden, children’s bedroom, parents’ bedroom

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South Africa’s Solid Model For Inclusive Education

In South Africa, Pretoria’s Eduplex (Educational Complex) is a mainstream school for the spoken-language needs of children with hearing issues, its classrooms having planned acoustics and optimised technology for learning. Read more: Changing Deaf Education In South Africa Five children in each class are deaf, with their classmates benefiting from the school’s strong emphasis on

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Does Lip-Reading Benefit Infant Reading Ability?

With babies known to acquire literacy skills from birth, the availability of picture cards, board/cloth books, posters and materials gives a head-start. Reading is a vital way for children with hearing issues to access information in their daily environments – for educational, social and computer literacy. Seeing And Hearing Words Together A researcher in Italy, Dominic

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One Language May Be Best For Kids With Implants

Children with a cochlear implant who learn spoken language only, may progress faster than others with implants who also learn sign language, according to new research from Leiden University in The Netherlands. Read: No more sign language for deaf children with implants? Not as far-fetched as it seems. For deaf children (like their hearing peers),

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Keeping Hearing-Devices On Children At School

As new school years start, several parents have asked how to keep hearing-devices on their children, during creche, preschool or school hours. Hearing-aids and cochlear implant (CI) processors may fall off. This may be due to: The child’s ears being still very small at this stage, for a device to ‘sit’ on. The curious child

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HSE Takes Proactive Steps On State Hearing Tests

The HSE is to actively shorten hearing-test waiting-lists in its Mid-West area, which covers North Tipperary, Clare and Limerick, and consists of about 53 per cent adults and 47 per cent children, the Irish Medical Times reports. Read: New HSE initiative to cut hearing-test waiting list Only recently, the HSE advised that newborn hearing tests

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