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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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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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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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Dr Carol Flexer: We Hear With Our Brains

Mention the name Dr Carol Flexer, and most audiologists and speech therapists worldwide will nod in recognition. Dr Flexer, an expert in childrens’ auditory brain development, hosted a sparkling session in Dublin on May 7 for professionals ranging from those mentioned, to social workers, educators, researchers and cochlear implant support teams. Dr Flexer’s last visit to Dublin coincided

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Real-Time Classroom Captions: A Study (Australia)

Positive results for students using realtime captions in classrooms are noted in a case study by PhillipsKPA that uses research findings from the Victorian Deaf Education Institute (VDEI) and the Victorian Government Department of Education and Training (DET). NOTE: Mainstream schools can use this learning for use with students with access issues. Read: Using Real-Time Captioning With Students Who Have Hearing

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T-Shirts For Sports With Cochlear Implants

Sound Advice has a quantity of CiWear Tshirts with sleeve pockets for cochlear implants. What’s the deal? These amazing CiWear T-shirts hold cochlear implant devices in both sleeve pockets with neck loops to contain your cables while you surf, bike, run, hike or play sport. Great when sports headgear is worn. Can you swim with a cochlear implant? Yes! Sound processor waterproof

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Australia Leads World In Teaching Deaf Children To Hear And Talk

Eighty-three per cent of 696 deaf preschoolers in Australia and New Zealand actively speak words at or above hearing-peer level, according to First Voice, whose group of centres teach deaf children to hear and talk with digital hearing devices. Read: Australia leads the world in teaching deaf children to listen and speak More details from the research are

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‘New Fad Open-Plan Classrooms’ Not Conducive To Learning

Childrens’ speech perception drops visibly in open plan classrooms, disturbing their efforts to hear discussions with peers and teachers, and leading to chronic listening fatigue. Read: Students struggle to hear teachers in new fad open-plan classrooms Teachers in open-plan classrooms reported greater vocal strain amid concerns that the children could not hear their voices, leading researchers to conclude that acoustically treated, enclosed classrooms make

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