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#AVTchat: “What Is Auditory-Verbal Therapy?”

Since 2007, Sound Advice has listed the four communication options for families whose children are deaf, to ensure families make fully informed decisions on their childrens’ behalf. Our e-book, “Teaching A Deaf Child To Hear And Speak… Perfectly!” also guides families wanting to build auditory-verbal therapy (AVT) into everyday routines for everyone’s benefit. First #AVTchat

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9 years ago Education, Hearing, Language Development#avtchat, auditory, auditory-verbal, child, children, classmates, coach, coaching, cochlear, communication, community, creche, deaf, deafness, early, education, family, hearing, home, HSE, implant, inclusion, inclusive, infant, intervention, Ireland, language, learn, learning, listen, literacy, mainstream, parent, parents, preschool, read, reading, school, services, siblings, social, speech, stategies, talk, technology, therapy, training, vocabulary, 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

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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11 years ago Hearingclass, classes, classmates, hear, hearing, large, mainstream, pupil, resource, restricted, school, small, SNA, speech, student, teacher, teaching, unit, verbal

Query: School With Unilateral (One-Sided Hearing)

Queries about facilitating children with single-sided (unilateral) hearing in a mainstream classroom, were recently received by Sound Advice. All the children had hearing-devices; their parents and teachers just needed information and reassurance that their classroom strategies were relevant in each case. ASHA’s solid advice on addressing unilateral hearing at home and at school: Read: Will

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11 years ago 1 Comment Hearingacoustic, acoustics, app, atresia, ceiling, chart, class, classmates, classroom, content, dialogue, fan, flag, FM system, graph, hall, hard of hearing, hearing, hearing aid, hearing device, images, learn, learning, level, measure, microtia, mild, moderate, noise, PC, projector, severe, soundfield, table, teacher, teaching, tennis balls, tiles, unilateral, visual

“Don’t Limit Me!” Megan Bomgaars Tells Teachers

Educators must have high expectations for differently-abled students in a regular classroom, and not assume that constant help is needed – this video will smash perceptions as school terms resume after the summer break. Don’t Limit Me! – Megan Bomgaars Notably, Megan emphasises life-skills and workplace skills as essential take-aways from a school education, together with

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11 years ago Hearingcheerleader, cheerleading, class, classmates, constrain, constraint, expectations, experience, field, fit in, fitting in, ignorance, ignorant, independence, independent, limit, low, negative, none, perspective, resource, school, schoolmates, self-starter, self-starting, sports, task, tasks

Classroom Captions Entrenching In The UK And US

In 2011, Australia’s government approved funding to deliver classroom captions to all severely to profoundly deaf pupils who need facilitation. This move was significant as deaf pupils typically must give 100% of attention to an educator, which makes personal note-taking a challenge during class. Captions To Benefit The UK’s Educators, Too Ai-Media, the captions provider,

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11 years ago 1 Comment Captions, Education, Hearingaccess, Ai-Live, Ai-Media, Australia, bluetooth, buddy, captions, classmate, classmates, classroom, connected, connectivity, dialogue, digital, educator, educators, laptop, mobile, mobile device, note taking, note-taker, notes, skype, student, students, support, tablet, technology, tools, UK, US

New School Year – A Quick Reference List

If you’re a parent or teacher with a deaf child starting a new school year, here’s a quick reference list that might answer some of your questions. Hearing Assistance Entitlements Educational Supports in Ireland Advocating For Your Child’s Service Provision The Visiting Teacher Service: Background Details The Effective Use of IEPs in Irish Classrooms What

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13 years ago 2 Comments Hearingassembly, assistance, bilateral, class, classmates, classroom, communication, deaf, deafness, discuss, discussion, education, hearing, IEP, inclusive, lesson, lessons, of, one, open, parent, parents, plan, plans, remedial, resource, room, school, side, SNA, SNAs, staff, support, teacher, teacher of the deaf, teachers, unilateral, visiting teacher for the deaf, visiting teacher of the deaf

Deaf Children In The UK Face Teaching Cuts

Yesterday, an article on mainstream supports for deaf children in the UK (by Cathy Heffernan) ran in the UK’s Guardian broadsheet newspaper. Deaf pupils will bear the brunt of education cuts Eighty-five per cent of deaf pupils in the UK are mainstream-educated at present. Like in Ireland, these pupils, their families and school teachers draw vital

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14 years ago 1 Comment Hearingclassmates, classroom, coaching, cuts, education, families, family, focus, hours, inclusion, inclusive, integrate, integrated, integration, mainstream, number, numbers, parent, parents, ratio, resource, school, support, system, training, tutor, tutoring, visiting teacher, visiting teachers, VTHI, VTOD

Australia’s Deaf Kids Get Classroom Captions

For the first time deaf kids in Australia can gain equal access in classrooms, with  a pilot schools-captioning idea from access solutions firm, Ai Media. Ai Media, formed in 2003, dedicates itself to providing generic captioning services. In Australia about 85% of deaf children attend mainstream schools and last year AI Media began captioning in

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14 years ago 6 Comments Captions, Education, Hearing, Language Developmentaccess, accessible, captioning, captions, classmate, classmates, classroom, deafness, equal, laptop, school, schools, services IT, social, subtitles, teacher, teaching, training, visual, voice, words

Tips For New Teachers of Young Deaf Children

If a deaf child is in your class this school year, you may be asking “does my teaching have to change?” and wondering how everyone will manage. Everyone Is Individual The first thing to remember is that all children are different, so take some time to get to know your new pupil for themselves, as

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