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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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Different Outcomes For Children Born In The UK After 2006

Deafness is not a learning disability, as the NDCS routinely reminds us. However, the UK’s education system is not ‘failing’ children who are deaf, as this headline suggests. Rather, the infants’ education begins at home with their families, once their hearing difficulties are confirmed with a diagnosis and hearing-devices ideally accessed at the earliest opportunity. Children Born After 2006 Accessed UNHS

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Teen Sues School District Over Lack Of Supports

School districts in the US are challenged by students’ new technologies, such as cochlear implants and CART (communication access in real time) captions. In fact, a few lawsuits have occurred around provision of CART in classrooms, with another case just reaching the headlines: Video: Student sues school district for supports Each story has two sides,

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Teaching Assistants Can Be A ‘False Economy’

Parent attitudes are similar when teaching support hours are sought for children with extra educational needs, at mainstream schools in the UK and Ireland. This report from The Guardian defines the challenges of special needs or teaching assistants in the classroom: Read >> Relying on TA support for SEN students is false economy In the words

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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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Classroom Captions Entrenching In The UK And US

In 2011, Australia’s government approved funding to deliver classroom captions to all severely to profoundly deaf pupils who need facilitation. This move was significant as deaf pupils typically must give 100% of attention to an educator, which makes personal note-taking a challenge during class. Captions To Benefit The UK’s Educators, Too Ai-Media, the captions provider,

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Learning European Languages With Live Captions

Fred Suter, a deafened student from Germany who’s studying modern languages in the UK, shares how he uses realtime captions in lectures for 100% access to course material with a laptop, microphone and wifi network. Read: Experience of Communication Support At University For the Sound Advice team, this is exactly how students who’re deaf or hard-of-hearing

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California Student Seeks Captions Instead Of FM

In 2009, a California-based high school student with a cochlear implant asked her school district to provide realtime captions in class, instead of a FM system, which she said gave her headaches and relayed static noise. At end-2012, the case was reopened with a similar, second case in the state. Read: Student asks Tustin schools

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Bilingual, Spoken Language At Home And School

Teachers of the deaf are usually tasked with developing their pupils’ English. The deaf preschoolers in this story are bilingual both in spoken English, and in their spoken family language at home (not every household uses English). Read: Being a teacher of the deaf at Clarke Mainstream Services This teacher runs a preschool whose pupils

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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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