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Teacher Gets Live Captions For CPD And Meetings

High school teacher Richard Koenigsberg, with 40 years experience and who is partially hearing, took a legal case against the East Brunswick Board of Education in New Jersey after multiple requests for real-time captioning support via CART were ignored. A settlement in January 2015 involving the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) required the Board of

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Florida Student Seeks Captions In State Tests

Fifteen year old student Payton Bogert, who is hard of hearing, is disputing accessibility in the Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) test, with an audio clip in her imminent tests. An ASL version of the audio clip exists but Bogert, who is not fluent in sign language and wants to go to Princeton University, has asked

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Spoken Language Intervention In Sri Lanka

Two infant-intervention centres in Sri Lanka are referenced here for families with children who are deaf and researching the spoken-language option with digital hearing-devices. CEHIC – Centre For Hearing Impaired Children Since 1992, the CEHIC in Dalugama has sent over 600 deaf children to mainstream schools in Sri Lanka after attending CEHIC from birth to

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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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Sound Advice At The United Nations

In early 2016, Sound Advice was named a top-100 global inclusive education entity by the Zero Project, and exhibited February 10 to 12 at the United Nations office in Vienna, Austria. On February 12 Louise Honck from AVuk joined Caroline Carswell to present the auditory-verbal (hearing-speech) case for inclusive education in the conference panel session

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#AVTchat 4: Techniques And Second Language Learning

The fourth Twitter #AVTchat hosted by Sound Advice for engaged parents, is shared here. Primary topics were ideas for home AVT sessions (a therapist typically will suggest these) and learning a second spoken language, when the first is actively learned. ICYMI: #AVTchat 4: Techniques And Second Language Learning is on #Storify! https://t.co/hQ7nXp2OT3 #auditoryverbaltherapy — Caroline

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Legislation For Education Services In Ireland

Ten pieces of legislation cover education supports and hearing services in Ireland – listed here for parents, educators and lawyers re-engineering state services in a digital age. Ability: The Reality For Deaf Children In Ireland Infants born deaf, detected at birth, who get hearing-devices immediately and whose families talk with them at home, typically can start

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#AVTchat 2: “Reading Skills and Auditory-Verbal Therapy”

Reading books aloud immerses infants with digital hearing devices in words and sentences, with this early exposure giving many strong spelling and grammar skills for life. Ten books per day is typical when infants have auditory-verbal teaching, hence the topic of this chat. Second #AVTchat session On November 4th, 2015, Sound Advice hosted the second

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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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Insights To Life With Cochlear Implants

Real, human insights to life with cochlear implants can be tricky to source. While these devices are not accepted by some, these experiences of digital hearing are worth reading: Read: Cochlear Implants Give The Gift Of Hearing, But They’re Not For Everyone Our favourite story here, is the office worker who overheard a colleague on

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