Teaching for deaf children and young adults worldwide has altered in recent years, with digital hearing technologies and speech-to-text tools, according to a report from Project Forum, at the (US) National Association of State Directors of Special Education. The Digital-Hearing Age Infants are being given access to digital hearing at an ever earlier age. Advances in newborn
Imaginosity (Dublin Childrens’ Museum) and IDK are hosting a book-reading for all children aged 4 to 9 at Imaginosity, on November 2nd at 4pm. This event is part of Imaginosity’s second annual Festival of Stories, in which IDK participated during October 2011. Children attending the reading of “A Birthday For Ben“, access Imaginosity’s child-centred, educational and interactive
The IDK childrens’ book, “A Birthday For Ben“, is in ITV’s new mobile app for its SignedStories.com portal, for which the book was animated in 2010. This app is available via the Apple store, for all devices running off iOS. Read:ITV launches storybook app for Signed Stories For the new app, ITV is digitising a
Fire-fighting isn’t an obvious career for a lad who’s deaf, but with successful interviews for his new role, a bit of fire-fighting history may have happened. Read: Hearing loss didn’t stop fireman following Dad’s footsteps Justin Sarna wears hearing-aids and spent much of his final year in high school, dealing with rejection letters from prospective
In 2012, the US-based Massachusetts Hearing Aids for Children Coalition (MassHACC) founded in 2009, had a bill passed into law, to offset the cost of digital hearing-aids to families with children who have hearing issues. Their debating point was that: Children who do not receive early intervention [for deafness] cost schools an additional $420,000 [each] and face overall
In this second of two posts, the mum of a five-year-old boy who was implanted this year, shares details of their favourite apps for language development. Part One of this post, went live last week. Second Favourite App: I broke this group into my son’s three favourites! I am a huge believer in reading stories
In October 2012, Sound Advice’s Caroline Carswell presented at the “Transition From Higher Education To Work” conference, organised in Ghent, Belgium by the pan-European entity LINK (Learning Inclusively Network + Know-how). Caroline’s topic outlined how parents, educators, policymakers, students, career advisors and employers need to be fully informed on deafness for real change. The presentation
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