Year 4

“Why Are Hearing Difficulties So Exhausting?”

Most people who’re severely to profoundly deaf (even with digital hearing-devices) will mention recurring exhaustion from “actively listening” all the time to communicate, to receive and remember daily facts, and to process at warp-speed detail that’s fed to you – in its incompleteness or entirety. A multi-choice survey on the “Hearing Ourselves Think” blog by

11 years ago 1 Comment Captions, Education, Hearingbreak, child, children, college, comprehend, comprehension, concentration, device, devices, down time, experience, fatigue, hearing, hearing device, information, issue, issues, listening, off, pace, quiet, quiet time, rest, retain, retention, silence, skills, take, teen, time, time-out, understand, understanding, university, year, years, yourself

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

14 years ago 2 Comments Hearingacumen, aptitude, awareness, caption, civil, deafness, doorbell, Drogheda, Greenhill, group, idea, ideas, information, innovation, Innovators, interview, ISL, language, Louth, marathon, people, podcast, preconceived, preconceptions, radio, RDS, research, sign, skills, social, society, student, students, subtitles, subtitling, talents, transcript, transition, UNHS, video, videos, year, young, YouTube

Including Deaf Children At Preschool – Part Two

This post continues the piece, Including Deaf Children At Preschool (Part One). A key question was put to the mum & creche manager: How did you identify the potential challenges you (mum & creche) might meet during Charlie’s early days? NOTE: Charlie was late detected at around age two, unlike today’s infants who benefit from

15 years ago 2 Comments Hearingbook, books, care, child, childhood, communication, concept, creche, early, ECCE, education, equality, free, government, group, IBM, intervention, Ireland, irish, ISL, KidSmart, language, learning, literacy, OMYC, opportunities, PC, peer, peers, preschool, read, reading, state, support, supports, training, year

Early Childhood Care & Education (ECCE) Scheme

In Ireland, the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) free pre-school year is set to open up equal education opportunities to children nationwide. The scheme, which is to be rolled out from January 2010, will be available to all pre-schoolers in Ireland, born between 2 February 2005 to 30 June 2006 (exemptions are made for

15 years ago 2 Comments Hearingaccess, accessibility, care, child, childcare, childhood, children, committee, county, early, ECCE, education, equal, free, infant, language, learn, literacy, needs, parent, preschool, preschoolers, read, reading, skills, social, special, staff, student, teacher, worker, year

Archives