Being Deaf: Some Workplace Challenges Identified
Recruiters and HR directors need to read this piece. It’s brilliantly written by a 21-year-old programmer who’s deaf and finding his way in his workplace. Read more: Being deaf (and other life lessons) This lad’s start-up has limited budget for access services, but a transcriber is hired for big meetings. Generally speaking, he says “HR
Tablet PCs Give Students A Voice In Classrooms
Students with hearing issues in Minnesota, are using tablet PCs to listen to MP3 clips, to find photos/videos for class-work and to speak on their behalf. Two students have used a speech-app and PowerPoint to present in a class. Read more: iPad techology benefits students who’re deaf/hard-of-hearing Resource and speech teachers also like tablet PCs
Getting Hearing Peers To Include You In The Chat
A UK-based teenager who’s deaf, has shared a honest account of the social isolation she can feel, when her hearing peers don’t understand her position. Ellen gives tips for everyday chat in mainstream settings in her interview, while acknowledging the need to mix with hearing people for mutual benefit. Read: ‘I may be deaf, but you
Customising Sound Technologies For Personal Use
Imagine yourself in a very noisy bar, or at a music gig. You’re wincing slightly at all the noise, or straining to hear what your friends are saying. For many people, this is a daily reality when they wear hearing-devices (even at a tea-station in a busy office, sound can bounce off tiled areas). Young students
Bilingual, Spoken Language At Home And School
Teachers of the deaf are usually tasked with developing their pupils’ English. The deaf preschoolers in this story are bilingual both in spoken English, and in their spoken family language at home (not every household uses English). Read: Being a teacher of the deaf at Clarke Mainstream Services This teacher runs a preschool whose pupils
Figures On Newborn Hearing Tests For Ireland/UK
By coincidence, new country statistics from Ireland and the UK for newborn hearing testing, became available the same week this month. The figures from the Irish Times paper show that since April 2011 over 8,000 babies have had newborn hearing tests in Cork one hundred babies were referred for further hearing testing all received intervention
Classroom Technology ‘Has The Children Talking’
Educators must adapt to reach young pupils who are deaf, in their own [technology] zone, according to an educator who teaches in spoken English. Read: Students with hearing loss gain from technology & teaching Children who are deaf also need book-reading, art-work and excursions in their learning mix. These activities create openings for chats with the
Deaf Medical Student Not Fazed By Hearing Issues
When deaf students are mainstream-educated, observers may not realise the level of extra work they can put in, to get similar results to their peers. This piece reveals a deaf student’s commitment to her medical studies. Read more: Hearing loss not a barrier for medical student In this case, the student relied on her determination,
Taking A Mainstream Route To Self-Employment
The Irish Times Insight magazine asked what state supports are open to entrepreneurs with disability who start a business – at risk of losing any social welfare benefits they may get? Interestingly, mainstream education is cited as a source of the learning and skills people need for self-employment. Fiona Reddan talked to Caroline Carswell about her
eBook: Teaching A Deaf Child To Hear And Speak
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