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Reading Survey Profiles Verbal Deaf Children In UK

The UK has about 44,000 children with permanent hearing issues (CRIDE 2012), with over 90% being from hearing families. About two thirds of these children primarily use spoken language despite about 25% having severe to profound hearing issues that impacts their access to hearing and speech. Accessing Phonics With Hearing Devices Using hearing-aids and cochlear

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Older Siblings’ Vital Role In Child Language Skills

Sibling influences shape a younger child’s language more than was thought, according to new research of 385 preschoolers in Ontario, Canada, and which was published in the February print edition of Pediatrics magazine. Older children influence language development This research has implications for children with hearing issues in larger families, where parents may interact less

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Audiologist’s Game For Students’ Listening Skills

Parents working with babies and children whose cochlear implants are newly activated, need to label particular noises with the children and emphasise listening skills to start recognising everyday sounds. One Arizona-based audiologist has devised a game for this listening-and-talking process: Read: Audiologist game to boost kids’ listening skills Talk To Newborns With Hearing-Aids Jacque Scholl

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Seeing And Hearing Words With Cochlear Implants

People with hearing issues synergise their sight and hearing senses to detect and assimilate environmental information, according to research by Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition (CERCO, CNRS/Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier), with the ENT department at Toulouse’s Hôpital Purpan. Read >> Hearing With Sight: Why Implants Have Variable Results Lip-Readers See And Hear Sound

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Listening And Talking With Auditory-Verbal Work

Many parents ask the Sound Advice team, “what is AVT”? In short, Auditory-Verbal Therapy is a parent-led approach that teaches deaf children to listen and talk by using their residual hearing with consistent wearing of digital hearing-devices. Knowing that almost all deaf babies and children have usable hearing, AVT optimises their latent listening skills, which leads

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Creche Staff And Parents Build Kids’ Talking Skills

Childrens’ spoken language skills benefit from responsive interactions with childhood educators and parents, according to research from the University of North Carolina’s Frank Porter Graham (FPG) child development institute. These points are valid for infants whose hearing issues are detected near birth, and who receive digital hearing devices as a priority. Read: Early Educators Build Childrens’ Communication

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Educators Optimising Universal Literacy Software

Three educators are optimising a software product for students with hearing issues to access audio-visual content, to achieve a universal design for a concurrent, mainstream student pool that was not envisaged at the outset. Educators Build Web-Based Literacy Assessment Software AvenueDHH Platform The product, AvenueDHH, gives educators a standardised way to measure student literacy while allowing

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‘Children Are Made Smart From Conversations’

Earlier this year, Chicago-based ENT surgeon Dana Suskind, was mentioned on this site for her Thirty Million Words project. Working with children who have cochlear implants raised her interest into how spoken language builds when family conversations are facilitated – in babies and children with/out hearing issues. Read: Want Smart Kids? Talk – And Listen – To

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Media Quote – Living A Life Less Ordinary

IDK is cited in the “Living A Life Less Ordinary” feature in the ‘Living’ section (p.15) of the Independent, a broadsheet newspaper in Ireland (28/9/2013). Context Is Everything The context derives from Sound Advice’s post on Andrew Solomon’s book, “Far From The Tree”, with a critical review of the issues it raises on personal identity.In identity terms,

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Early Interaction With Babies For Communication

Early interaction with babies and infants from the age of 4 weeks by family, lays their communication foundations, according to a new book, “Small Talk” by UK-based speech teacher Nicola Lathey and journalist Tracey Blake. Read: Early Teaching Helps Babies To Talk Parents of children with newly-found hearing issues can now read the basics about

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