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Apps For Son’s Language Development (Part 1)

For this two-part post, the mum of a five-year-old boy who was implanted this year, shares details of their favourite apps for language development. Part Two of this post, will follow next week. My Playhome: My PlayHome is an interactive doll house for the iGeneration with a kitchen, living room, garden, children’s bedroom, parents’ bedroom

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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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Does Lip-Reading Benefit Infant Reading Ability?

With babies known to acquire literacy skills from birth, the availability of picture cards, board/cloth books, posters and materials gives a head-start. Reading is a vital way for children with hearing issues to access information in their daily environments – for educational, social and computer literacy. Seeing And Hearing Words Together A researcher in Italy, Dominic

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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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Implants Benefit Children With A Range Of Issues

After a child has meningitis, the family has only a small time-frame in which to plan for cochlear implant surgery. Meningitis causes the cochlea in the ear to harden soon after the illness, so quick decisions have to be made. This Kiwi family tells the story of how a cochlear implant helped their son to

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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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Language Parallels Seen In Deafness And Dyslexia

New research from the US has uncovered parallels in language-processing by two groups of children with hearing issues, and children with dyslexia. The study at Ohio State University looks at the links between hearing and language skills (children with cochlear implants, and children with dyslexia). Read: Studies On Deaf Children May Decode Dyslexia Importantly, this study

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TeachNet Blog: Closed Captions In The Classroom

Attendees of the CESI 2012 conference last February, will recall the live captions that were requested by Sound Advice’s Caroline Carswell, to facilitate her access to the sessions – and to give a live demo in her own presentation. Live Captions Retained A Full Day At CESI 2012 The CESI organisers arranged these live captions

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Soundfields For Learning: The-Need-To-Know

Soundfields for learning, and their procurement, are a recurring question Sound Advice gets from parents and educators. Here’s a “Soundfields 101” piece to demystify the obtaining and use of these audio-systems. Soundfield presentation from Sound Advice’s EdTech event in October 2011: Soundfield Classroom Audio (Andrew Taylor, Classroom Comms) Q: What is a soundfield (audio) system? A:

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