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Soundfields For Learning: The-Need-To-Know

Soundfields for learning, and their procurement, are a recurring question Sound Advice gets from parents and educators. Here’s a “Soundfields 101” piece to demystify the obtaining and use of these audio-systems. Soundfield presentation from Sound Advice’s EdTech event in October 2011: Soundfield Classroom Audio (Andrew Taylor, Classroom Comms) Q: What is a soundfield (audio) system? A:

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A “Trinity News” Commission Takes Sound Advice Full-Circle

Life goes in circles – or so the saying goes. This certainly was the case when “Trinity News“, the campus newspaper of Trinity College Dublin, approached Caroline Carswell from Sound Advice, to pen a piece on a Rag Week 2012 event. Read the piece: Making A Noise For Deaf Kids After cutting her publishing teeth with

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E-Books, E-Readers And Children’s Reading Skills

A new electronic item in the headlines recently, is the e-reader. What are e-readers, and how do they benefit deaf children who are learning to read? E-readers are electronic devices, such as the Kindle, that allow the user to read an electronic book instead of a paper book. They are increasingly used by educators to encourage and

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Book Prize-Draw For World Book Day (March 1st)

To mark World Book Day Ireland (March 1st), Sound Advice will make a draw of the names of everyone who follows our Facebook page by March 5th, 2012. The prize is a copy of the Sound Advice children’s book, “A Birthday For Ben”(2009). Make sure to ‘Like’ our new Facebook page by March 5th to be in, to win!

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Classroom Captioning At CESI 2012

Sound Advice presented on classroom captions at CESI 2012 February 24-25, with the theme of TEACHnology: merging teaching and technology. Miriam Walsh very kindly co-presented on captioning videos for education, as an intern with Sound Advice. See The Presentations Miriam Walsh’s slides (she became an Apple Educator!) Saturday’s session (February 25) was web-cast via seewritenow.ie.

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NCSE: Education Of Deaf/Hoh Children in Ireland

Educational outcomes for children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing, is the focus of a new policy advice paper from the National Council for Special Education. Read the paper: The Education of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children in Ireland Download the presentation in PDF format. The goal of the paper is that children who are “deaf

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New Study: Babies Learn Language By Lip-reading

All babies lip-read from about 6 months of age, to learn mouth-shapes for the sounds they hear, according to researchers at Florida Atlantic University. When a baby gazes intently at a speaker’s mouth, this indicates they are working to learn to form syllables for themselves, instead of just babbling. Read: Babies Learn Language By Reading

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Deaf Student Uses Captions In Operating Theatre

Teaching supports like captioning on a tablet PC, can allow deaf students to learn in operating theatre practicals where everyone is masked and gowned. The University of California solved the issue of a deaf student lip-reading masked colleagues in theatre, by using a tablet PC to provide live-captioning (CART). The PC device was wrapped in clear plastic

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TCD Evening Seminar For Students With Disability

The Disability Service at Trinity College, Dublin is hosting an information evening this month for potential students with physical/sensory disabilities. Date: Friday January 27th 2012 Time: 6.30pm Venue: Room 3074, 3rd Floor, Arts Building, TCD The evening will begin with an overview of the Disability Access Route to Education (DARE), and will outline the range

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Technology Bridges The Deaf And Hearing Worlds

The Tech section of Malaysia’s New Straits Times broadsheet newspaper recently ran an interview with a female, deaf IT graduate and blogger, who outlines exactly how technology helps bridge the deaf and hearing worlds. Read: Sound Her Out Employers, tertiary-education providers and IT firms can gain from reading this piece, which notes how regular blogging

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