From France – how the mother of a boy who’s deaf, travels abroad to have his bilateral cochlear implants mapped, and to progress his speech teaching. What’s most disturbing is that the spoken-language approach did not seem to be mentioned on the French websites for cochlear hearing devices. Read more: The Sky Is The Limit
Hearing-aids are being customised and tweaked by software engineers and people who manage their own PCs and smartphones, the BBC has reported. Read: Hearing-Aid Hackers Fine-Tuning Their Own Devices Frustration results when aid-wearers can’t tune their own devices, plus the fact that hearing-aid brands, parts and accessories tend to be incompatible. Interestingly, when Apple announced
A family’s experience when their son’s deafness was misdiagnosed despite repeated hearing tests, recently featured in The Irish Examiner newspaper. Read: “If it happened to our son, it could happen to others” The family went public with fears that misdiagnoses might happen to others. Feel free to comment on this piece below, in the space provided. Further
New research from the US has uncovered parallels in language-processing by two groups of children with hearing issues, and children with dyslexia. The study at Ohio State University looks at the links between hearing and language skills (children with cochlear implants, and children with dyslexia). Read: Studies On Deaf Children May Decode Dyslexia Importantly, this study
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