Phone Interview With Dublin City FM (Feb 2013)
Dublin City FM’s Bernard Whelan interviewed Sound Advice’s Caroline Carswell for the ‘Good Morning Dublin‘ show on February 11th, about Sound Advice’s parent-teen workshop on February 12th, “Feeling Isolated? You’re Not Alone!” To give context, the interview was focused to Sound Advice’s work, Ellen Arthur’s background, the challenges students with hearing issues experience in mainstream
Event Video: “Feeling Isolated? You’re Not Alone!”
At Sound Advice’s event, “Feeling Isolated? You’re Not Alone!” (February 12th), this video was taken to get presenters’ and attendee feedback on the event. The event hosts were Ellen Arthur (youth advisor to NDCS UK), Rebecca Dunne (Sound Advices youth person) and Caroline Carswell (Sound Advice founder/CEO). More Reading Sound Advice’s “Feeling Isolated? You’re Not
Children Can Filter Background Noise With Practice
Children with hearing-devices, who need to listen in noisy classrooms, were seen to benefit from a three week, intensive active-listening programme to train their brains to filter out background noise as they learned in class. Read: Auditory Training Benefits Children With Hearing Issues Persistent background noise in classrooms means hearing-device wearers can miss entire chunks
A Surgeon’s Thirty Million Words Project Research
Chicago-based ENT surgeon, Dana Suskind, who oversees pediatric cochlear implants, is researching a thirty-million-word gap she sees among implanted children from lower socio-economic backgrounds. By age 3, these children hear 30 million fewer words than peers from more affluent backgrounds. With babies known to hear in the womb before birth, Suskind has a point. Read
Google Glass: A Possible Look To The Future
Students with hearing issues may gain particular benefit from two functions in Google Glass, an emerging eyeglasses technology from Google. In 2014, these wearable headsets with camera, video, wifi and voice-tech are due for release after ongoing testing and user feedback through 2013. Benefits For Students With Hearing Issues Real-time speech-to-text translation in 37 languages via Bluetooth,
Technology Boosts Journalists With Hearing Issues
Journalism as a career option is viable when you have hearing issues, with technologies like Twitter, Skype, email and instant messaging. However, YouTube and web-videos are a challenge to access, as this writer notes: Read: Technology gives deaf journalists more options Disclosing (and when to disclose) hearing issues is always a challenge, but the reality
Making Peer Connections And Tackling Isolation
Yesterday’s Sound Advice parent-teen workshop with Ellen Arthur, youth advisor to NDCS UK, brought together a group of mainstream-educated teens with hearing issues and their parents, to discuss solutions to recurring challenges that are encountered in school and local community environments. Read more: “Feeling Isolated? You’re Not Alone!” Isolation at school does not mean you
School Awareness Poem: I am Deaf, and it’s Okay
This poem was shared by a family whose son changed primary schools last September. He needed a snazzy way to tell his schoolmates and teachers about his hearing, and how to communicate with him. Here’s the result: I am Deaf and it’s Okay I am deaf, and it’s okay It’s not my fault – I
Home-Work With Children Who Have Hearing Loss
Some families turn a child’s hearing issues into a chance to find and learn language in all situations and environments, according to blogger mum, Kristen Johnson (“No Small Thing“), whose third child has hearing issues. Read SpeechBuddy: How To Help A Child With Hearing Loss Kristen’s top tips for parent-child communication at home: Turn off appliances
eBook: Teaching A Deaf Child To Hear And Speak
Edited by Caroline Carswell