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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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Childrens’ Distinct Language Learning Stages

We already know almost all babies can lip-read when aged six to twelve months, to learn their mouth-shapes for talking. At this time, babies’ brains are processing speech sounds in the part of the brain that manages motor movements for producing their own speech. Six To Twelve Months Old From 7 to 11 months old (the

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Review: Dance Central With Kinect (Xbox)

A young dancer who’s deaf, wrote a review of the game, “Dance Central Spotlight” with Kinect, with several accessibility tips for developers of gaming interfaces. Specifically, Video games are not excluding [people who have hearing issues] with music-based games, but are… providing a visualization of music that can bring music to deaf and hard of hearing gamers in

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Ai-Media, RogerVoice and Captions Progress Subtitles

Fans of real-time captions weren’t short of news recently, with three developments from real-time classroom captions, to life-with-subtitles apps on smartphones and on Google Glass: Ai-Media Firstly, UK-based captioning firm Ai-Media announced backing from Nesta Impact Investments to develop its high-quality live captioning service for students with different learning challenges, while giving teachers real-time feedback

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Are Students Hearing Fully In Class?

US-based educator Ben Johnson, who teaches Spanish, tells of his lightbulb moment on discovering classroom soundfield systems at a recent educational technology conference: When you go to the movies, plays, or even concerts, the rooms are equipped with a sound system so everyone can hear. Why don’t we do that in classrooms? Isn’t it critical

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Diversity Among Deaf People Must Be Seen

Verbal wearers of cochlear implants and digital hearing devices are largely invisible in mainstream media, with a real lack of role models for young people who identify as such. Young people need to be seen on TV, enjoying mainstream life and talking with their families and friends, thanks to digital hearing devices and infant education strategies. Outdated Stereotypes On TV When

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India’s AURED School Enrols Infants For AVT

Parents are their childrens’ main spoken-language teachers at India’s AURED school, which teaches the AVT (auditory-verbal) method. One critical point to note regarding AVT is: Recent research indicates that the critical period of ‘learning’ [to hear] starts from the sixth month of pregnancy up to 2 years and therefore early diagnosis and intervention is essential. Children with significant

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A New Domain – And A New Name

Welcome to Sound Advice, the new name for the Irish Deaf Kids (IDK) venture since 2014! Why This Rebrand? Seven years is a milestone for a startup which coincided with the global financial crisis of 2007-08. In this time, the meaning of ‘deafness’ in Ireland was redefined, thanks to newborn hearing tests, digital hearing devices and

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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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Webinar: School-Based Educational Audiology (US)

The Educational Audiology Association (EAA) in the US is hosting a webinar on July 22, for which families and professionals may like to register. Educational audiologists maintain school acoustic quality and students’ cochlear implants, hearing aids and FM systems during the day. Based on district policy, aural rehabilitation (sound practice) may be in their remit. Contracted

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