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Dublin 13

Mentoring At #HackAccessDublin 2016

Earlier this year, Sound Advice was invited to mentor hackers at the first #HackAccessDublin hackathon (November 2016) to find solutions to make Dublin more accessible to everyone. With Transport the 2016 theme, the engineers, designers and makers got insights from diverse Solution Enablers (the mentors), to ensure a universal design for all the solutions. Engagement and

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8 years ago Captions, Hearing, Smartphones, Telehealthaccess, accessibility, accessible, children, cochlear, communication, deaf, deafness, dublin, ethical, family, hack, hackathon, hackers, inclusion, inclusive, Ireland, mainstream, public service, speech, technology, tourism, transport, travel, visitors, visual

Sound Advice At Web Summit 2014

Being a girl can help, at times. Especially when pitches to win tickets to [inter]national events are offered in an attempt to redress the gender imbalance in the IT industry. This specific event was Web Summit 2014 in Dublin, one capital in the internet of things (IoT) with Santander (Spain), Chicago (US) and Christchurch (New Zealand). A double of sorts resulted

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10 years ago 1 Comment Captions, Education, Hearing, Telehealth#nightsummit, #websummit, city, digital, diversity, dublin, equality, gender, hearing, Internet of Things, IoT, Ireland, IT industry, learn, pitch, skills, tech, technology, Web Summit

ESRI Research Seminar: ‘Disability Through The Lifecourse’

The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) held a conference in Dublin, ‘Disability Through The Lifecourse‘, on September 16th, 2014. This event was very relevant to Sound Advice, with the keynote speaker, Professor Sheila Riddell from the University of Edinburgh, citing post-school transitions research from NDCS in her keynote presentation. Most of the social group profiled from

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Image10 years ago 2 Comments Education, Hearingcollege, communication, deaf, dublin, economic, education, esri, family, further, grades, graduate, hearing, higher, Ireland, labour, learn, mainstream, market, NDCS, outcomes, parents, placement, read, reading, school, schools, skills, social, speech, students, teachers, transitions, trends, work

Google Glass: A Device For Life With Subtitles?

With Google Ireland celebrating ten years at its base in Dublin by opening The Foundry, its innovation and conference centre, a look at how its Google Glass technology might impact people with hearing issues, is relevant. One example is the nascent possibility to reassign Google’s voice-search service to deliver realtime voice-to-text transcription, at a desktop, on a

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11 years ago 5 Comments Captions, Education, Hearingaccess, accessibility, accessible, book, books, cochlear, colleague, college, concept, dublin, foundry, glass, Google, HR, Ireland, mainstream, management, office, social, speech, student, students, support, teacher, teachers, team, university, visual, words, workplace

Newstalk: “What Is It Like To Go Deaf Overnight?”

Radio station, Newstalk 108FM, sent reporter Henry McKean to Specsavers Hearcare in central Dublin, to have his ears filled with putty to block sounds. McKean then had a taste of “being deaf for a day” in Dublin city centre. Listen: What Is It Like To Experience Deafness Overnight? A transcript of McKean’s commentary is here,

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11 years ago 1 Comment Hearingawareness hearing awareness, deaf for a day, dublin, hearing, mckean, Newstalk, putty, radio, specsavers, station, transcript

A “Trinity News” Commission Takes Sound Advice Full-Circle

Life goes in circles – or so the saying goes. This certainly was the case when “Trinity News“, the campus newspaper of Trinity College Dublin, approached Caroline Carswell from Sound Advice, to pen a piece on a Rag Week 2012 event. Read the piece: Making A Noise For Deaf Kids After cutting her publishing teeth with

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13 years ago Hearingassistant, commission, committee, dublin, editor, newspaper, publication, student, sub-editor, subbing, TCD, Trinity College, Trinity College Dublin

TCD Evening Seminar For Students With Disability

The Disability Service at Trinity College, Dublin is hosting an information evening this month for potential students with physical/sensory disabilities. Date: Friday January 27th 2012 Time: 6.30pm Venue: Room 3074, 3rd Floor, Arts Building, TCD The evening will begin with an overview of the Disability Access Route to Education (DARE), and will outline the range

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13 years ago Hearingaccess, accessibility, accessible, book, books, deaf, deafness, ds3.ie, dublin, education, inclusion, inclusive, Ireland, irish, ISL, language, learn, learning, literacy, mainstream, parent, parents, read, reading, sign, social, speech, student, students, support, supports. DS3, TCD, teaching, training, Trinity, Trinity College, Trinity College Dublin, visual

"Dodder River" Blank Notecards For Everyday Use

The Dodder river, as you’ve never seen it! IDK is offering blank note-cards of the “Dodder River” in packs of ten 6″ x 4″ cards, at €6.50 per pack. Our office in Terenure is very close to the Dodder, which is Dublin’s second river after the Liffey. Both source four miles apart in the chain of

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13 years ago 1 Comment Hearingbeautiful, blank, bridge, card, cards, country, daily, dodder, Dodder river, dublin, everyday, export, gardens, General, greetings, guaranteed, guaranteed irish, international, Ireland, irish, irish-made, local, note-cards, notecards, order, orders, orwell, overseas, photo, photograph, picture, pictures, rathfarnham, rathgar, river, scenery, snow, source, Tallaght, Terenure, use

"River Dodder" And "Holly Berries" Christmas Cards

IDK is now offering Christmas cards in two designs (1) “River Dodder” and (2) “Holly Berries” in mixed packs of ten 6″ x 4″ cards, at €6.50 per pack. Please add EUR 1.00 per pack for postage on all orders. If you are buying from overseas, please mail info@irishdeafkids.ie, to confirm postage costs. Many thanks!

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13 years ago 1 Comment Hearing2011, benefit, berries, bridge, card, cards, cause, causes, charity, Christmas, christmas cards ireland, Christmas Ireland, dodder, doing, dublin, Enterprise, entrepreneur, festive, Fitzwilliam, frozen, good, greetings, guarantee, guaranteed irish, holly, ice, independent, indie, Ireland, irish, Irish Christmas, Irish Christmas cards, Irish Indie Christmas, kiosk, microbusiness, orwell, park, rathgar, reinvest, river, season, season's, small business, SME, snow, social, Square, venture, white, wish, wishes

Book Reading At Imaginosity (October 14th, 2011)

Imaginosity (Dublin Childrens’ Museum) and IDK are hosting a book-reading for all children aged 4 to 9 at Imaginosity, on October 14th at 4pm. Children attending the reading of “A Birthday For Ben“, access Imaginosity’s child-centred, educational and interactive museum space for creative play. During Imaginosity’s Festival of Stories, its Super Saver Rate for school groups

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