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Australia’s Mount View School Offers An AVT Facility

Progressive auditory-verbal approaches at Mount View Deaf Facility within the mainstream Mount View Primary School in Glen Waverley, (Australia), are presented in this report. Read: Learning side by side helps deaf children thrive Marilyn Dann, the facility’s first coordinator, now lectures at Melbourne University and says: Often we would hear our deaf students begin to use

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Different Outcomes For Children Born In The UK After 2006

Deafness is not a learning disability, as the NDCS routinely reminds us. However, the UK’s education system is not ‘failing’ children who are deaf, as this headline suggests. Rather, the infants’ education begins at home with their families, once their hearing difficulties are confirmed with a diagnosis and hearing-devices ideally accessed at the earliest opportunity. Children Born After 2006 Accessed UNHS

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eBook: Teach A Deaf Child To Hear And Talk

Sound Advice created an e-book, “Teaching A Deaf Child To Hear And Speak: Perfectly“ (A Father’s Love), by James Hall, whose daughter hears and talks with bilateral cochlear implants. Mr Hall contacted Sound Advice after four years researching how a deaf child can acquire speech, and documenting his findings. Click the blue image below, to

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Mainstream School Benefits Children With Implants

School placement is everything for children with cochlear implants. This explanatory piece is about an 11-year-old boy named Wyatt in the US, whose parents wanted him to have a mainstream education. Here’s what happened when he attended a school for deaf students: Wyatt was treated as if he were a deaf child with a hearing aid who needed to

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Strategies For Effective Auditory Verbal Therapy

Babies whose hearing issues are detected at birth, who receive hearing-devices and who start auditory-verbal therapy (AVT) before their first birthday, can have age-appropriate language within six months, according to a recent webinar from Hear And Say (Australia). Founder, Dimity Dornan, presented Is Auditory Verbal Therapy Effective? to highlight the family-centred teaching approach of social skills and listening-based cognitive strategies. Meantime, The Hearing Journal noted in

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FOREWORD To The Sound Advice eBook

Click on the blue image or red box just below, to download the e-book in PDF format. Sound Advice, producer of the ebook, Teaching A Deaf Child To Listen and Speak – Perfectly! began as a social venture in Ireland named Irish Deaf Kids, 2007 – 14, whose mission was to empower parents to

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Preschoolers’ Language Skills Deserve Investment

Yesterday’s Irish Examiner report, ‘Deaf children held back by fund gap‘, raises pertinent points about service provision, particularly when eligible children aged under 18 in Ireland are to receive bilateral cochlear implants from July 2014. Ireland’s Historic Lack Of Services Firstly, the historic lack of public hearing and speech services for deaf children in Ireland,

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Cued Speech Finding Its Place In A Long Debate

Cued Speech may be finding its place with digital hearing-devices. From the 1960s, Cued Speech was seen as “too oral” by signing deaf people and “too manual” by families using the verbal approach, but this could be changing. Right On Cue: Cued Speech For Communication Reasons For Using Cued Speech Literacy and reading skills are

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Speech Teletherapy Matches In-Person Results

Outcomes for children receiving remote-speech therapy by telepractice, are similar to in-person sessions with a therapist. A report by Hear and Say, on using Skype to deliver teletherapy services to remote areas of Australia, was published in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare (read below). Read: Pilot Study of Telepractice For Delivering Speech Therapy Early Intervention Boosts

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Cochlear Implants As A Disruptive Technology

We hear the term ‘disruptive technology’ used in consumer terms, one very visible example being the superseding of digital cameras by quality camera-phones. Another example was Netflix moving its services online. The writer of the below piece looks at bilateral cochlear implants in the same context: Read: Bilateral cochlear implants as a disruptive technology Defining Disruption

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