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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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Five Questions: Ruben Ramanathan, Supply Chain Management Technology

Ruben Ramanathan will soon graduate from Purdue University in Indiana and is eyeing a career in the automotive industry. Since he was little, he has had a real passion for automobiles, and aspires to work for Honda or Mazda as a purchasing agent or buyer. 1) The biggest struggle being the only deaf person in my family is that I

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Closing Educational Gaps For Deaf Children

Demand for specialist teachers of speaking deaf children is so high that all graduates from the teaching program at California Lutheran University (CLU) were hired out of their course before summer 2017 began. Summer camps for verbal children with hearing issues to build peer support and address learning gaps are similarly growing in the US, with

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Meet Egypt’s Speaking Deaf Dentist And NZ’s Clinical Physiologist

Cochlear implants and infant intervention remove limits, as in these videos of Esraa El Bably (Egypt’s first deaf dentist) and New Zealand’s Josh Foreman (clinical physiology graduate). Foreman (below), the youngest New Zealander to receive a cochlear implant at the time, just graduated from the University of Auckland and works as a clinical exercise physiologist

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Five Questions: Jessica Chaikof, Sociology Student

” The reason most people assume that I know sign language is because people with cochlear implants and who use listening and spoken language are NOT well represented in the US media.” We talk with Jessica Chaikof, a junior majoring in sociology and a minor in chemistry at Wheaton College (MA), about life with cochlear implants. SA:

Theatre Builds Deaf Childrens’ Speaking Skills

Confidence and speaking skills for deaf children feature in this CNN video with Michelle Christie, founder of the No Limits non-profit, which now has three centres in California and in Las Vegas, to provide infant verbal intervention to families who otherwise could not afford it. College In Their Sights No Limits For Deaf Children builds a college-going

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Five Questions: Olivia Williams, Psych/PR Student

Olivia Williams is reading Applied Arts and Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology (US), and received her first cochlear implant at age 5, after losing her hearing when aged four. 1) Would you consider being deaf and a cochlear implant user part of your identity? Why, or why not? Yes, I do consider myself as a cochlear

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Bluetooth Stethoscopes For Doctors With Implants

Current teens with cochlear implants will like to read of Singapore-born Dr Joseph Heng and two female students, US-born Victoria Popov, with otolaryngology (ENT) in her sights, and UK-born Genevieve Khoury, in her second year of a medical degree. With clear surgical masks available for healthcare workers with hearing issues, and Bluetooth links going directly from stethoscopes

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Five Questions: Alanna Kilroy, Business Student

” I think the biggest obstacle is getting people to realize not all deaf people use ASL; a lot can actually speak, write well, and carry on long conversations in sometimes non-ideal settings.” We interviewed Alanna Kilroy, a business student at Boston University, who uses cochlear implants, is verbal and studied in the UK for

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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