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Timeline For Bilateral Cochlear Implants In Ireland

A parent briefing was held in Dublin on May 10th, 2014 by the national cochlear implant centre (NCIC) in Ireland to advise parents on timelines for the bilateral cochlear implant programme to roll out from July 2014. Key dates: July 21st – First simultaneous bilateral cochlear implant surgery July 23rd – First sequential bilateral cochlear implant

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Cochlear Implants As A Disruptive Technology

We hear the term ‘disruptive technology’ used in consumer terms, one very visible example being the superseding of digital cameras by quality camera-phones. Another example was Netflix moving its services online. The writer of the below piece looks at bilateral cochlear implants in the same context: Read: Bilateral cochlear implants as a disruptive technology Defining Disruption

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Cued Speech An Option When Sounds Are Unheard

For over 30 years, families used cued speech to give deaf children visual access to sounds for lipreading (speechreading in the US) and to facilitate the child’s literacy by using the family’s language for reading and writing. Visual Cues To Speech Sounds A very small number of children (with today’s digital hearing-devices) don’t get to hear

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Words ‘Better For Child Language Development’

A child’s language ability may benefit their working memory, according to a new study from Indiana University. Spoken language is shown to have more effect than pictures when getting a child to direct their eyes to an object. Read: Children spot objects faster, when prompted by words One conclusion from researchers, Catarina Vales and Linda

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Making Speeches Is Viable For Born-Deaf Children

Ten years ago, one family in Perth (Australia), was worried their young son Isaac, might never talk. He’s since proved himself as a natural orator. Perth boy born #deaf, now a public speaker | #hearing #edchat http://t.co/XiWGxGSjdM — Caroline Carswell (@irishdeafkids) April 20, 2014 Subtitles can be activated on the video by clicking the ‘CC’

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When Children Speak – And Read The Same Words

Several fascinating articles on cochlear implants and literacy appeared in the recent world press, some of which are collated here for reading. Early Child Literacy Child literacy improves when a cochlear implant is accessed before age 3, to maximise a child’s residual hearing, and to address early vocabulary gaps with activities like parent-child talking interactions and

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Audiologist-Built Early Ears App For Hearing Tests

Audiologists have created a new app, ‘Early Ears’, for parents to test the hearing of the 20% of children who will have glue ear by the age of five, in addition to the 80% of children likely to experience glue ear by age ten. Video: App tackles issue of ‘glue ear’ in children The app,

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‘Hear More Words, Speak More Words’ – Literally

Children who wear digital hearing-aids consistently, have better speech and language abilities overall, due to having access to incidental sound. Researchers at the University of Iowa proved this correlation in preschool-aged children with hearing-aids by measuring (1) the benefit the aids gave the children and (2) the duration for which the aids were worn, every

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How Listening And Speaking Lifts Literacy Levels

Children who communicate by listening and talking can have strong literacy levels, thanks to extensive reading practice during their early-years learning to talk process. Stacey Lim, assistant professor of audiology at Central Michigan University, explains some literacy findings when infants and young children access cochlear implants with auditory verbal therapy (AVT, or learning to listen and

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Identifying As Hard-Of-Hearing, ‘With Devices’

There’s a new generation of born-deaf people growing up as a technically hard-of-hearing subgroup (with their hearing-devices) – who identify with hearing culture and must educate on daily assumptions made by others. Mainstreamed with hearing-devices Jillian Ash, writer of this piece, wore hearing-aids since infancy, and moved to a cochlear implant at age 9. She

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