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Classroom Hearing-Technology Options And Tips

School environments are famously tricky for children to hear what’s being said in class, by their teachers and classmates. And it’s not just children with hearing devices who struggle in a classroom: pupils with colds and allergies or English as another language, also benefit from positive school acoustics. Read: Tips For Hearing Well In The

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Seeing And Hearing Words With Cochlear Implants

People with hearing issues synergise their sight and hearing senses to detect and assimilate environmental information, according to research by Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition (CERCO, CNRS/Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier), with the ENT department at Toulouse’s Hôpital Purpan. Read >> Hearing With Sight: Why Implants Have Variable Results Lip-Readers See And Hear Sound

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Listening And Talking With Auditory-Verbal Work

Many parents ask the Sound Advice team, “what is AVT”? In short, Auditory-Verbal Therapy is a parent-led approach that teaches deaf children to listen and talk by using their residual hearing with consistent wearing of digital hearing-devices. Knowing that almost all deaf babies and children have usable hearing, AVT optimises their latent listening skills, which leads

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Forty Corporate-Size Christmas Cards From Sound Advice

Sound Advice has forty corporate-size Christmas cards in two designs, available immediately as a bulk purchase. These are quality 4-page A5 cards printed both sides, on 350 gsm silk, with one envelope for each card. A “Season’s Greetings” message inside each card accommodates all tastes and contexts. Please request these cards from our online shop or email

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Creche Staff And Parents Build Kids’ Talking Skills

Childrens’ spoken language skills benefit from responsive interactions with childhood educators and parents, according to research from the University of North Carolina’s Frank Porter Graham (FPG) child development institute. These points are valid for infants whose hearing issues are detected near birth, and who receive digital hearing devices as a priority. Read: Early Educators Build Childrens’ Communication

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One Hour Of School Per Day – Since April 2013

Since April 2013, a family in Cork has driven 45 minutes each way to and from school, only for the student to receive one hour of schooling per day. After a cochlear implant 18 months ago, the student is now verbal and the hearing-unit at his school is no longer able to support his altered needs.

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Educators Optimising Universal Literacy Software

Three educators are optimising a software product for students with hearing issues to access audio-visual content, to achieve a universal design for a concurrent, mainstream student pool that was not envisaged at the outset. Educators Build Web-Based Literacy Assessment Software AvenueDHH Platform The product, AvenueDHH, gives educators a standardised way to measure student literacy while allowing

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Sound Advice’s ‘Ability Personified’ Video Opens To Votes

Ireland’s annual ‘Better Together‘ campaign allows third-sector entities and initiatives to highlight their social-impact on a portal website that engages the public to understand and support the vital work these organisations do. Sound Advice has submitted a two-minute version of the six-minute video won in a CSR give-away in 2012 by Tailored Films. The production

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Tele-Health, Services, Therapy: It’s All In A Name

The Audiology field is in line for major benefits from remote (tele) provision of health services (tele-health), a recent piece in Audiology Online notes. Free Software and Desktop-Sharing Apps Widely available, free software tools like Skype or ooVoo can be used for video-conferencing, with remote desktop sharing software applications connecting both parties in a telehealth

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Hearing Kids Gain In Preschool’s Reverse-Inclusion

A Minnesota-based preschool program using the spoken-language approach with children who have hearing issues is expanding after families saw their hearing children gain from being in the same language-heavy environment. Read: Preschool for children with hearing issues expands “The kids’ interaction helps with their social development, parents love it; they want their kids to be

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