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UK’s Hearing-Services See Losses – Plus Gains

Mixed developments are impacting the UK’s public hearing-services. Regional audiology services are making gains or losses around the UK, based on budgets – but research into providing national school hearing tests for children aged 4 to 6 is under way. These school-based hearing tests, if rolled out nationally, will be a vital link in the hearing-check

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Cochlear Implants Appreciated By Their Recipients

Cochlear implants are constantly in the news, ranging from the youngest-yet recipient in the UK (7 months) to the gains reported by older recipients. Certain individuals don’t want to consider an implant, for their own reasons, but the digital hearing technology (and processes) are steadily improving with research advances. Growing Up With Cochlear Implants When

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Massachusetts Prices The Cost Of Not Intervening

In 2012, the US-based Massachusetts Hearing Aids for Children Coalition (MassHACC) founded in 2009, had a bill passed into law, to offset the cost of digital hearing-aids to families with children who have hearing issues. Their debating point was that: Children who do not receive early intervention [for deafness] cost schools an additional $420,000 [each] and face overall

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Transitioning From Higher Education To Work

In October 2012, Sound Advice’s Caroline Carswell presented at the “Transition From Higher Education To Work” conference, organised in Ghent, Belgium by the pan-European entity LINK (Learning Inclusively Network + Know-how). Caroline’s topic outlined how parents, educators, policymakers, students, career advisors and employers need to be fully informed on deafness for real change. The presentation

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Students Put Texas State University On The Spot

Two students at Texas State University have shared experiences of working with disability offices to identify and arrange supports for their own studies. One student who has hearing-aids and does not sign, disliked the recurring stereotypical belief that having a sign interpreter would benefit her studies. Consequently, she took practical action by setting up a campus

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South Africa’s Solid Model For Inclusive Education

In South Africa, Pretoria’s Eduplex (Educational Complex) is a mainstream school for the spoken-language needs of children with hearing issues, its classrooms having planned acoustics and optimised technology for learning. Read more: Changing Deaf Education In South Africa Five children in each class are deaf, with their classmates benefiting from the school’s strong emphasis on

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One Language May Be Best For Kids With Implants

Children with a cochlear implant who learn spoken language only, may progress faster than others with implants who also learn sign language, according to new research from Leiden University in The Netherlands. Read: No more sign language for deaf children with implants? Not as far-fetched as it seems. For deaf children (like their hearing peers),

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HSE Takes Proactive Steps On State Hearing Tests

The HSE is to actively shorten hearing-test waiting-lists in its Mid-West area, which covers North Tipperary, Clare and Limerick, and consists of about 53 per cent adults and 47 per cent children, the Irish Medical Times reports. Read: New HSE initiative to cut hearing-test waiting list Only recently, the HSE advised that newborn hearing tests

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Teachers’ Assumptions: Kids With Hearing Issues

Recommended reading: when teachers learn a child with hearing issues is in their class, they may not know what to expect. This piece has solid advice for teachers in Ireland/the UK, and explains how the child may be feeling. Read: Eleven misconceptions about children with hearing issues Every child is different. Get to know your

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An Intern’s View: From Journalism To Technology

Miriam Walsh – now teaching content coordinator for Cork VEC’s iTunes University education platform – joined the Sound Advice team in 2009, as a graduate in journalism. Here’s her story. What did you like best about working with Sound Advice? Sound Advice gave me independence to research articles I wanted to write, with guidance as needed.

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