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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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10 years ago 6 Comments Education, Hearing, Language Developmentaccess, accessibility, accessible, auditory-verbal, child, children, cochlear, communication, deaf, deaf education in Ireland, deafness, direct, education, family, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, Ireland, language, learn, learning, literacy, mainstream, parent, parents, payments, preschool, provision, reading, school, schools, services, social, speech, student, students, support, teach, teacher, teachers, teaching, technology, therapy, traditional, training, visual, words

IDK Shortlisted in Elevate PR’s €10K PR Campaign

To celebrate its tenth birthday, Dublin-based Elevate PR offered a PR campaign worth €10K to the small firm or non-profit in Ireland that wrote the best 500-word pitch. The eight finalists were Treehouse Republic, Dayout.ie, Digital Mines, An Oige, FirstDate.ie, Irish Girl Guides, Sensational Kids and Sound Advice (then called Irish Deaf Kids). The winner was Sensational Kids, also a Social

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13 years ago 2 Comments Education, Hearingadvocacy, advocate, ambassador, ambassadors, based, campaign, campaigner, campaigning, celebrities, celebrity, company, competition, coverage, digital, elevate, endorse, endorsement, engagement, guerilla marketing, Ireland, irish, key, local, marketing, media, messages, online, outreach, partner, partners, partnerships, pitch, pitching, PR, press, public, public relations, radio, relations, seeding, social, story, storytelling, tell, telling, traditional, TV, visibility, web

Lip-Reading Training Benefits From Technology

A new study by the University of East Anglia (UEA) suggests computers are now better at lip-reading than humans. The performance of a computer based lip-reading system was compared to that of 19 human lip-readers. Results showed the computerised system was over 50% better at recognition than the humans completing the same task. Simultaneously, the

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15 years ago 3 Comments Education, Hearing, Language Developmentadult, advance, automated, child, children, computer, computers, East Anglia, face, gestures, humans, image, individual, lip-read, lip-reading, lipread, lipreading, machine, recognition, shape, skills, speech, system, task, traditional, training, university, video
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