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Cochlear Implants And Spoken Language Development

Several surveys on cochlear implants and spoken language development were published during August to October 2015, and are curated here for easy reference. Early Intervention For Deaf Children Remembering “a child learning to speak the English language must master 44 different speech sounds, cochlear implants and early intervention facilitate this choice for family life. Parents

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#AVTchat: “What Is Auditory-Verbal Therapy?”

Since 2007, Sound Advice has listed the four communication options for families whose children are deaf, to ensure families make fully informed decisions on their childrens’ behalf. Our e-book, “Teaching A Deaf Child To Hear And Speak… Perfectly!” also guides families wanting to build auditory-verbal therapy (AVT) into everyday routines for everyone’s benefit. First #AVTchat

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Infant Gaze Shifting Builds Word And Social Skills

Everyday parent-infant interactions and conversations build a child’s early language base through gaze-shifting, which scientists now know is a critical factor in babies’ ability to learn new language sounds. In turn, this builds critical vocabulary in children of preschool age. Shared Parent-Child Visual Attention Builds Language Ability Language learning happens through gaze shifting, when a

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Early Intervention Gets Illinois Children Hearing And Talking

Through a program in Illinois State, audiologists, speech therapists and teachers of the deaf train in early intervention for children to learn to hear and talk with hearing-devices. * VIDEO: Graduate program trains students to teach children with hearing issues The joint training of multi-disciplinary teams is growing in the US, as more families choose

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Insights To Life With Cochlear Implants

Real, human insights to life with cochlear implants can be tricky to source. While these devices are not accepted by some, these experiences of digital hearing are worth reading: Read: Cochlear Implants Give The Gift Of Hearing, But They’re Not For Everyone Our favourite story here, is the office worker who overheard a colleague on

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The Sound Barrier, July 2015

“The Sound Barrier“, an hour-long public education documentary about cochlear implants in Ireland, screened on RTE, the state television channel on Tuesday, July 14th at 21:35. View the documentary here in its entirety, with the trailer at the end of this post. Celebrating Bionic Hearing For Children In July 2014, bilateral cochlear implants for children

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Listening In School Can Drain Cognitive Resources

Children who have hearing difficulties can find listening all day in school and classes to be exhausting work, according to an article in the May 2015 edition of The Hearing Journal. Defining The Challenge The author, Dr Ryan McCreery, of Boys Town National Research Hospital Omaha, writes: Specifically, the task of understanding and processing speech degraded

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Why Do Deaf Schools Cost So Much?

Discussions about specialist schools for deaf students, routinely highlight that educational outcomes for the students tend to be well below national averages – despite large sums of money being invested into the schools, into digital tools and into teaching resources. Cost Analyses Can Be Illuminatory Reading the critique, Why Are Expenses So High At School For The Deaf?, by Dr Nick Fina,

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Pebble Watches Doubling As An Access Tool

Kristen Regelein, head of global sales at smartwatch maker Pebble – who went deaf at age three – uses a Pebble watch in business meetings to alter the volume on her hearing-aids. “My personal and professional life depends heavily on my listening and communication out to the world. When your job is to negotiate deals, it could

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Parents As Change Agents In Hearing-Education

Research evidence is emerging that “parent-to-parent support, described as parents with lived experiences providing support to each other, is recognized as a distinctive and important type of support system” for families whose children have hearing issues. Read: Parent-to-Parent Support For Children With Hearing Difficulty In 2007, this was one catalyst for Irish Deaf Kids (Sound

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