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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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Win A GAA Helmet With Mycro Sportsgear; IDK

Today, the irishdeafkids.ie website is five years old! The website domain was registered on August 26th 2007, exactly five years ago on this date. Mycro Sportsgear in Cork has given us a birthday gift to share with you! It’s a customisable GAA sports helmet, to which metal grids can be added over the ears to guard

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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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The Sky’s The Limit, When Parents Are Informed

From France – how the mother of a boy who’s deaf, travels abroad to have his bilateral cochlear implants mapped, and to progress his speech teaching. What’s most disturbing is that the spoken-language approach did not seem to be mentioned on the French websites for cochlear hearing devices. Read more: The Sky Is The Limit

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Family Gets Apology From HSE For Misdiagnosis

A family’s experience when their son’s deafness was misdiagnosed despite repeated hearing tests, recently featured in The Irish Examiner newspaper. Read: “If it happened to our son, it could happen to others” The family went public with fears that misdiagnoses might happen to others. Feel free to comment on this piece below, in the space provided. Further

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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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Bilingual, Spoken Language At Home And School

Teachers of the deaf are usually tasked with developing their pupils’ English. The deaf preschoolers in this story are bilingual both in spoken English, and in their spoken family language at home (not every household uses English). Read: Being a teacher of the deaf at Clarke Mainstream Services This teacher runs a preschool whose pupils

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Figures On Newborn Hearing Tests For Ireland/UK

By coincidence, new country statistics from Ireland and the UK for newborn hearing testing, became available the same week this month. The figures from the Irish Times paper show that since April 2011 over 8,000 babies have had newborn hearing tests in Cork one hundred babies were referred for further hearing testing all received intervention

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Deaf Children ‘Can Learn Their Family Language’

Parents who learn their child is deaf, have massive decisions to make – and in this post for the NY Times, one mum describes the route her family took. Read: Teaching A Deaf Child Her Mother’s Tongue Both daughters in this family had a valuable head-start in life, in that their hearing issues were detected

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“What It Feels Like… to have a deaf child” (Dennis)

Most parents are not prepared to learn that their child is deaf or hard-of-hearing, and can experience a full spectrum of emotions on receiving the news. UK writer Oliver Dennis, is very honest about his own emotions when he learned his daughter was deaf (Sunday Times magazine, April 15th). Read more: What It Feels Like

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