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Classroom Captions At RIT Get AI Assistance

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) – hosting the National Technical Institute for Deaf students (NTID) – is optimising its realtime lecture captions with help from Microsoft. With deaf student demographics shifting to realtime captioning, by 2016 the number of lecture-captioning hours at RIT grew by 58% to 24,335 – up from just 15,440 hours in

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Australia Leaves Each Deaf Child $10K Short For AVT

On average, each deaf child in Australia is left AUD $10,000 short of public funding to access early intervention listening and spoken language services from birth to age three, with non-governmental organisations fundraising the balance, according to recent media reports. #Australia: Each #deaf child $10K short for hearing-and-talking #earlyintervention. https://t.co/79wSkNaDit #NDIS @FirstVoiceAus (@guardian) — Caroline

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Early Intervention By One-Three-Six Months

Ninety-six per cent of infants in the US have a newborn hearing test by one month old, but many do not access the Early Hearing Detection Intervention guidelines of 1-3-6 months, or detection by one month, evaluation by 3 months and intervention by 6 months, researcher Christine Yoshinaga-Itano says. Notably, just half of deaf babies

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Spoken Multilingualism In Deaf Children

Sound Advice has posited that spoken-multilingualism is viable for infants with cochlear implants, whose good outcomes are from parent conversations after their implants are fitted. Two researchers in the US, Kate Crowe and Belinda Barnet, are exploring both these themes with countless families already knowing the two are closely linked in pedagogicial terms. Deaf Children Speaking Multiple Languages Researcher Kate Crowe,

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The Thirty Million Words In A Hearing Context

A recent review in The Hearing Journal of the Thirty Million Words book by Dr Dana Suskind (pediatric cochlear implant surgeon), confirms that the approach noted by psychologists Betty Hart & Todd Risley, equally works for infants and children with hearing difficulties. Infant Spoken Language Exposure Is The Key Suskind aimed to establish why children

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Factoring FM Systems Into Music Classes

A music teacher’s refusal to wear a FM microphone in a thirteen-year-old girl’s music class at a middle school in Vermont, US, is the focus of a state legal case on the student’s rights. Reading the legal briefing document for this case gives excellent insights to practical challenges and limits of using a FM system

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Australia’s Listening And Spoken Language Focus

With almost fifty children graduating from Australia’s Shepherd Centre after learning to listen and talk from infancy, here are some reports about their start in mainstream education. Gearing For Mainstream School From The Start At the Shepherd Centre, many of these children learned to listen and talk with their families after their hearing issues were

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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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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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CinemaConnect and MobileConnect Clarify Sounds

Two new apps, CinemaConnect and MobileConnect, are devised for cinema and theatre fans to optimise incidental show dialogue for their hearing needs simply by calibrating the sound levels on their smart phones – even when hearing devices are not worn. A streaming audio signal transmitted from the movie screen or stage is detected by a user’s phone, with sound relayed

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