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Interview With DS3 Project Officer, Emma Clarke

Miriam Walsh, Sound Advice´s former journalist intern, met Emma Clarke, project officer of Trinity College Dublin´s Deaf Support at Third-Level (DS3) project to find out what education supports students can use in their tertiary education subjects. Starting college is never easy. Sometimes none of your friends are at the same college and you may be far away

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Low-Cost Internet Video Streaming For Educators

A low-cost way of video-streaming to use and distribute information online has been described in the US by Thomas McNeal Jr. and Landon Kearns. Their article, “Using Video Streaming: Setting up a Cheap System for Distributing Information to Teachers and Students” explores how to set up a streaming system, using tools readily available in classrooms.

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Teacher’s Story: Deaf Students In Adult Education

More and more deaf students are being taught in third-level classes, some mainstream and others not. Here, Sinead Quealy, from Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), shares her experience of teaching a group of adult deaf students. Her experience may help lecturers who teach deaf students. I taught adults for three years in Waterford City VEC. During

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Tutorial Captioning Benefits Deaf Students’ Access

Premier Captioning Wicklow are proud to advise that they are working with a deaf student at Trinity College Dublin to provide support in group tutorials where students are asked to discuss questions or issues raised by the tutor. Remote Captioning Services Save Resources PCR’s service is remote, meaning the transcriber does not have to be

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Interactive Whiteboards Promote Pupils’ IT Literacy

Using interactive whiteboards in mainstream primary classrooms motivates pupils by offering educational tools with a strong visual learning aspect. For deaf children who learn visually, whiteboards facilitate inclusive teaching and learning styles in many ways. Interactive teaching directly at the whiteboard is possible, instead of the child missing instructions while at a classroom workstation The

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Interactive Whiteboards Benefit Inclusive Teaching

Interactive whiteboards altered teaching practices at St Columba’s Girls National School in Co Cork, after its deaf pupils benefited from the tools. St Columba’s GNS, which has a facility for deaf students and teaches all its 600 students sign language, quickly realised the value of the whiteboards. When teaching new concepts in class, visual images and

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One Teacher’s View: Deaf Students At College

Many teachers or lecturers who are assigned a deaf student in their classes, can only see potential disadvantages and no way to circumvent these. Andy Kohn, who taught a deaf student at a VEC, believes otherwise. ” A deaf student in a mainstream college class has, for me, advantages rather than disadvantages. Admittedly, I teach photography, a

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Using Software Tools To Teach Deaf Children

Software and e-learning tools have massive potential in teaching deaf or hard-of-hearing children if they are adapted for full accessibility. With software tools, deaf children can hear to learn new vocabulary, numeracy and literacy skills, phonics and social skills in a structured way. Strategic video games can be used by deaf teens to learn to

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Study And Career Options For Deaf School-Leavers

Deaf school-leavers have the same third-level study options as their hearing peers, with digital hearing-devices giving better access to higher education. Some choose careers in the speech-pathology, audiology and ENT fields after growing up as service users The Careers page on this site (see left) lists careers chosen by students who’re deaf and hard of hearing, who push boundaries.

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