Words 287

Classroom Captions At RIT Get AI Assistance

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) – hosting the National Technical Institute for Deaf students (NTID) – is optimising its realtime lecture captions with help from Microsoft. With deaf student demographics shifting to realtime captioning, by 2016 the number of lecture-captioning hours at RIT grew by 58% to 24,335 – up from just 15,440 hours in

Video6 years ago 2 Comments Captions, Education, Hearing, Smartphonesaccess, accessibility, accessible, AI, C-Print, captioning, captions, cochlear, communication, deaf, deafness, dialogue, education, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, language, laptop, learn, learning, literacy, mainstream, real-time, school, schools, social, speech, spoken, student, students, tablet, technology, tertiary, third, third-level, translation, verbal, words

What Twenty-First Century Deafness Looks Like

Deafness is different in the twenty-first century. With today’s digital hearing technology, why consign potentially talented students, teammates and/or work colleagues to lesser life-roles as people? Changing What ‘Deaf’ Means I never learned sign language in a family or institutional setting, so don’t act so surprised when I tell you I don’t sign. Many hearing

7 years ago Education, Hearing, Language Developmentchild, children, cochlear, communication, deaf, deafness, education, family, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, language, learn, learning, literacy, mainstream, parent, parents, preschool, read, reading, school, schools, speech, student, students, teacher, teachers, technology, verbal, words

Deaf Kids Learn Words Faster Than Hearing Kids

Young deaf children with bilateral cochlear implants can learn words faster than hearing peers at 12, 18 and 24 months after implantation, electroencephalography studies show. We observed that when deaf children get their implants, they learn words faster than those with normal hearing. Consequently, they build up certain word pools faster. ~ Niki Vavatzanidis, scientist at

7 years ago 1 Comment Education, Hearing, Language Developmentbook, books, child, children, cochlear, communication, concept, creche, deaf, deafness, digital, education, family, health, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, language, learn, learning, literacy, mainstream, parent, parents, preschool, read, reading, school, schools, social, speech, student, students, teach, teacher, teachers, teaching, technology, training, verbal, vocabulary, words

Five Questions: Ruben Ramanathan, Supply Chain Management Technology

Ruben Ramanathan will soon graduate from Purdue University in Indiana and is eyeing a career in the automotive industry. Since he was little, he has had a real passion for automobiles, and aspires to work for Honda or Mazda as a purchasing agent or buyer. 1) The biggest struggle being the only deaf person in my family is that I

7 years ago Captions, Education, Hearing, Smartphonesautomobile, automotive, cars, cochlear, college, communication, connected, deaf, deafness, driver, driving, education, employment, family, graduate, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, industry, learn, learning, literacy, mainstream, parents, school, social, speech, student, students, technology, tertiary, third-level, university, verbal, words

Captioning 101 For The University Context

Realtime live captions support a broader range of attendees at university and college-hosted events like classes, sports events, guest lectures, theatre performances and student commencements at a more cost-effective price, according to UniversityBusiness.com. The problem with using ASL as a blanket solution for [deaf students] is that many hard-of-hearing students don’t know sign language. Now hearing-impaired

7 years ago Captions, Education, Hearing, Language Development, Smartphones, Telehealthaccess, accessibility, accessible, app, CART, children, cochlear, communication, concept, connectivity, deaf, deafness, education, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, Ireland, language, literacy, mainstream, read, reading, realtime, school, smartphone, speech, speech to text, student, students, support, technology, training, verbal, wifi, words

Australia Leaves Each Deaf Child $10K Short For AVT

On average, each deaf child in Australia is left AUD $10,000 short of public funding to access early intervention listening and spoken language services from birth to age three, with non-governmental organisations fundraising the balance, according to recent media reports. #Australia: Each #deaf child $10K short for hearing-and-talking #earlyintervention. https://t.co/79wSkNaDit #NDIS @FirstVoiceAus (@guardian) — Caroline

7 years ago Education, Hearing, Language Developmentaccess, auditory-verbal, child, children, cochlear, communication, concept, deaf, deafness, education, family, hear, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, infant, Ireland, learn, learning, literacy, mainstream, parent, parents, preschool, read, reading, school, schools, speaking, speech, spoken, talk, talking, technology, verbal, words

Early Intervention By One-Three-Six Months

Ninety-six per cent of infants in the US have a newborn hearing test by one month old, but many do not access the Early Hearing Detection Intervention guidelines of 1-3-6 months, or detection by one month, evaluation by 3 months and intervention by 6 months, researcher Christine Yoshinaga-Itano says. Notably, just half of deaf babies

7 years ago 1 Comment Education, Hearing, Language Developmentauditory verbal therapy, avt, brain, carol flexer, child, children, cochlear, communication, deaf, deafness, education, family, health, hearing, inclusive, Ireland, language, learn, listening, listening and spoken language, literacy, mainstream, parent, parents, pre-verbal, preschool, read, reading, school, schools, social, speaking, speech, spoken, talking, teach, teacher, teachers, teaching, technology, training, verbal, words

Careers In Speech To Text Reporting

Captioning is a lifeline in lectures, seminars and conferences for attendees who’re deaf, hard of hearing or use English as a second or other language. Typical users don’t know or use sign language and can capture notes from sessions, thanks to stenographers, palantypists or court reporters providing CART (Communication Access in Real-Time) on their behalf. CART In Higher Education

7 years ago 3 Comments Captions, Education, Hearing, Language Developmentaccess, accessibility, accessible, audio, caption, captions, CART, child, children, cochlear, communication, deaf, deafness, education, family, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, Ireland, literacy, mainstream, output, podcast, read, reading, realtime, school, schools, speech, stenographer, stenography, student, students, technology, training, transcribe, transcriber, transcript, video, words

Closing Educational Gaps For Deaf Children

Demand for specialist teachers of speaking deaf children is so high that all graduates from the teaching program at California Lutheran University (CLU) were hired out of their course before summer 2017 began. Summer camps for verbal children with hearing issues to build peer support and address learning gaps are similarly growing in the US, with

7 years ago 1 Comment Captions, Education, Hearing, Language Development, Smartphonesaccess, attainment, captions, child, children, cochlear, college, communication, deaf, deafness, digital, education, family, General, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, Ireland, learn, learning, literacy, mainstream, media, parent, parents, preschool, read, reading, school, speech, teach, teacher, technology, tertiary, third-level, training, transcripts, university, verbal, words

Spoken Language Best For Kids With Implants

Researcher Ann Geers, (Pediatrics, June 2017) published some very compelling data about children with cochlear implants and sign language use. Specifically, no advantage existed for parents to use sign language before or after an infant underwent cochlear implant surgery. Overall, deaf children with implants who never learned sign language had better language, reading and spoken language

7 years ago Education, Hearing, Language Developmentaccess, child, children, cochlear, communication, concept, creche, deaf, deafness, education, family, hearing, inclusion, language, learning, literacy, mainstream, parent, parents, preschool, read, reading, school, schools, social, speech, teacher, technology, training, verbal, words

Archives