A “Trinity News” Commission Takes Sound Advice Full-Circle
Life goes in circles – or so the saying goes. This certainly was the case when “Trinity News“, the campus newspaper of Trinity College Dublin, approached Caroline Carswell from Sound Advice, to pen a piece on a Rag Week 2012 event. Read the piece: Making A Noise For Deaf Kids After cutting her publishing teeth with
A TeleAudiology Program With Lessons For Ireland
As Ireland’s health service rolls out newborn hearing-screening services in its HSE South region, some valuable lessons can be learned from the state of California. In rural areas, a tele-audiology service enables families to follow up in the event that a newborn baby’s hearing test results give any concern. A major benefit is that newborns and
Student Hearing Awareness Day At Trinity College
During January, the Dublin city-centre branch of Specsavers contacted Sound Advice. Some students from Trinity College had requested support for a Hearing Awareness Day for Rag Week 2012, and needed ideas for the specific day. With practical assistance from Specsavers’ Hearcare unit and suggestions from Sound Advice, the Trinity students planned their hearing-awareness day. The
E-Books, E-Readers And Children’s Reading Skills
A new electronic item in the headlines recently, is the e-reader. What are e-readers, and how do they benefit deaf children who are learning to read? E-readers are electronic devices, such as the Kindle, that allow the user to read an electronic book instead of a paper book. They are increasingly used by educators to encourage and
Book Prize-Draw For World Book Day (March 1st)
To mark World Book Day Ireland (March 1st), Sound Advice will make a draw of the names of everyone who follows our Facebook page by March 5th, 2012. The prize is a copy of the Sound Advice children’s book, “A Birthday For Ben”(2009). Make sure to ‘Like’ our new Facebook page by March 5th to be in, to win!
Music: A Key To Unlocking Your Child’s Potential
A book, “Music Is The Key To Unlocking Your Child’s Potential” by language therapist Karen O’Connor, has launched in Ireland (€12.99, Londubh Books). The book tells how music-based sound therapy engaged specific children at Karen’s practice, with their learning and language subsequently developing. In 2011, the Sound Advice piece, “Music Has Educational Benefits For Deaf
Youth Attitudes To ‘Being’ Deaf, In The Media
BBC3’s recent ‘Deaf Teens, Hearing World‘ documentary, which profiled different ways to be deaf, has sparked debate about identity in deaf people. Five teens in the UK were followed, all with very different attitudes to, and experiences of being deaf. Fair play to the BBC, for this balanced reporting. A crucial line, “Each individual has
Videos Teach Social Skills To Children With SEN
A creative teacher in the US, is animating video-screen avatars to link with children with SEN such as deafness, DS and autism, in her teaching-group. Read: Video-website engages hard-to-reach students The software for this interactive learning offers varied animals, robots and stick people as characters. A teacher and/or student chooses a ‘persona’ and inputs text,
NCSE: Education Of Deaf/Hoh Children in Ireland
Educational outcomes for children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing, is the focus of a new policy advice paper from the National Council for Special Education. Read the paper: The Education of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children in Ireland Download the presentation in PDF format. The goal of the paper is that children who are “deaf
eBook: Teaching A Deaf Child To Hear And Speak
Edited by Caroline Carswell