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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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Knowmia, Panopto & MicroCone In The Classroom

Teachers, finding a diversifying mix of students in their classrooms, are always seeking new tools to simplify their preparation for impending classes. Two of these three tools offer learning-content creation with audio, slides, subtitles, notes and video while accommodating students of varied abilities. First up, is Panopto, a soution to deliver searchable, accessible multimedia content

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Learning Modern Languages At School

Have you considered deaf pupils who learn modern languages at school? This “Modern Languages” video from the UK guides teachers and students in listening/conversing when in groups, in the classroom or working alone. NDCS – BCC MFL from NDCS on Vimeo. Children in Ireland can seek exemption from learning the Irish language, to free resource time

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Newstalk: “What Is It Like To Go Deaf Overnight?”

Radio station, Newstalk 108FM, sent reporter Henry McKean to Specsavers Hearcare in central Dublin, to have his ears filled with putty to block sounds. McKean then had a taste of “being deaf for a day” in Dublin city centre. Listen: What Is It Like To Experience Deafness Overnight? A transcript of McKean’s commentary is here,

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Technology Boosts Journalists With Hearing Issues

Journalism as a career option is viable when you have hearing issues, with technologies like Twitter, Skype, email and instant messaging. However, YouTube and web-videos are a challenge to access, as this writer notes: Read: Technology gives deaf journalists more options Disclosing (and when to disclose) hearing issues is always a challenge, but the reality

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Being Deaf: Some Workplace Challenges Identified

Recruiters and HR directors need to read this piece. It’s brilliantly written by a 21-year-old programmer who’s deaf and finding his way in his workplace. Read more: Being deaf (and other life lessons) This lad’s start-up has limited budget for access services, but a transcriber is hired for big meetings. Generally speaking, he says “HR

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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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Deaf Student Uses Captions In Operating Theatre

Teaching supports like captioning on a tablet PC, can allow deaf students to learn in operating theatre practicals where everyone is masked and gowned. The University of California solved the issue of a deaf student lip-reading masked colleagues in theatre, by using a tablet PC to provide live-captioning (CART). The PC device was wrapped in clear plastic

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Transcript of Live Interview with Dublin SouthFM

On November 2nd, 2011, Conor Byrne at Dublin South FM interviewed Caroline Carswell from Irish Deaf Kids, on IDK and its activities. This transcript has been generated by Miriam Walsh, a former IDK intern who still contributes time to IDK’s operations, as needed. Read the radio transcript (pdf format) Listen to the podcast interview (25.2

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Young Social Innovators Group Working With IDK

In late 2010, a group of Transition Year students from Greenhill, Drogheda, decided to enter the 2011 Young Social Innovators (YSI) competition. Their project is about deafness, so they contacted IDK for initial information. The YSI competition is held every March at the RDS in Dublin, to encourage students to use their skills and talents to create a

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