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Guide For Children To Speak A Second Language

The first-ever book for families, audiologists and teachers working to teach second, spoken languages to children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing, is now available. Its author, Michael Douglas, a certified auditory-verbal therapist (AVT), was based at the University of  Houston from 2010 to 2012. Read: Dual Language-Learning for Children With Hearing Loss Some people are

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11 years ago 1 Comment Education, Hearing, Language Developmentaccess, accessibility, accessible, assistive, avt, bionic, book, books, child, children, citizen, cochlear, communication, concept, country, creche, deaf, deafness, device, devices, digital, dual, education, family, global, hear, hearing, home, inclusion, inclusive, inflections, intercountry, intercultural, language, languages, learn, learning, listening, literacy, LSL, mainstream, mobile, nationality, opportunities, parent, parents, phonetics, potential, preschool, read, reading, school, schools, speaking, speech, spoken, student, students, support, syllables, talk, talking, teach, teacher, teachers, teaching, technology, training, visual, words

Teen Sues School District Over Lack Of Supports

School districts in the US are challenged by students’ new technologies, such as cochlear implants and CART (communication access in real time) captions. In fact, a few lawsuits have occurred around provision of CART in classrooms, with another case just reaching the headlines: Video: Student sues school district for supports Each story has two sides,

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11 years ago Captions, Education, Hearingassistive, classmates, classroom, conversation, device, devices, dialogue, FM, iPad, kindle, lipread, lipreading, literacy, mobile, PC, phablet, reader, reading, screen, smartphone, student, tablet, teacher, teaching, technology

Kaltura Launches REACH Access Tools For Video

Open-source video platform, Kaltura, has launched a new accessibility suite with captioning, transcription and translation services, in-video and cross-library search, deep-linking options, metadata and keyword extraction. Kaltura launches REACH accessibility suite REACH, designed for language-learners and people with hearing issues, enables educational entities, workplaces, media firms and service providers to extend video services while meeting compliance

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11 years ago 3 Comments Captions, Education, Hearingaccess, ada, captions, college, dialog, dialogue, idea, learning, lecture, option, read, reading, record, school, search, SEO, subtitles, training, transcribe, transcript, university, verbatim, video, words, work, workplace

Visible Role Models Can Transform Perceptions

The ETBI.ie Summer newsletter has an article from IDK’s Caroline Carswell, describing how ‘ proactive role models with disability are needed across the EU as advisors to the government, the semi-state and private sectors. ’ Read: Visible Role Models Can Transform Perceptions Of Ability Too often, parent instinct is to overprotect children with disability, meaning positive role

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11 years ago Hearingability, advice, advise, challenge, challenges, classroom, education, encourage, experience, insight, insights, inspire, learned, learning, lived, model, motivate, positive, practical, research, role, role model, situations, solutions, support, supports, teach, teaching, training, understand, visible

Summer Camp For Media And Teamwork Skills

Media work traditionally was challenging when people had hearing issues – but digital hearing devices have changed this. Essentially, the children in this video use new media tools and presentation skills as their hearing peers do. Talking to camera in a #newsroom – and creating media! http://t.co/8FxvVF7chz #cochlearimplants #summercamp — Caroline Carswell (@irishdeafkids) June 9,

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Cued Speech Finding Its Place In A Long Debate

Cued Speech may be finding its place with digital hearing-devices. From the 1960s, Cued Speech was seen as “too oral” by signing deaf people and “too manual” by families using the verbal approach, but this could be changing. Right On Cue: Cued Speech For Communication Reasons For Using Cued Speech Literacy and reading skills are

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Wearable Tech Uses Bone Conduction For Hearing

Bone conduction for hearing underpins new tech-based products from Google Glass to the Bonebridge ear implant, the Eyeborg and the Cynaps. Read: Bone Conduction – Get Used To The Voices In Your Head Traditionally used in hearing-aids, it’s fascinating to see bone conduction featuring in wearable technologies. Bone conduction is the physics behind bone-anchored hearing-aids (BAHAs) but

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Connected Alarm Clock And Alerter From Cenify

Two students at Rochester Institute of Technology, Patrick Seypura and Alec Satterly, who have hearing issues, are gearing for connected homes with a smartphone-based alarm clock app, to distribute via Cenify, their company. This video shows how the app and phone might work in the home context: A wireless version of the app-managed clock is

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Speech Teletherapy Matches In-Person Results

Outcomes for children receiving remote-speech therapy by telepractice, are similar to in-person sessions with a therapist. A report by Hear and Say, on using Skype to deliver teletherapy services to remote areas of Australia, was published in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare (read below). Read: Pilot Study of Telepractice For Delivering Speech Therapy Early Intervention Boosts

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Delivering Live Captions That Students Can Read

With today’s classrooms having multiple digital data-sources, students who read live captions are challenged by room lighting or shadows, placement of units, and fitting audio-visual media screens into each student’s line of sight. Improving Caption Experiences Researchers at the University of Rochester are tackling these issues, aware that students in these classrooms with full hearing,

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