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    Florida Legislates For The Auditory-Verbal Option

    Tuesday, May 7th, 2013

    Parents of newly-identified children who’re profoundly deaf, have a lot going on. Not least, they must make communication choices on behalf of the children, and decide how the family is going to communicate in general.
    Recently, the US state of Florida passed legislation for parents to be told of all the possible communication options for deaf children. [...]

    Talking With Teens Who Have Hearing Issues

    Monday, April 22nd, 2013

    Deafness is called the ‘invisible disability’, and teens can be very reluctant to disclose what they see as a social vulnerability. A librarian who has hearing issues herself, shares some communication tips – which can be used almost anywhere a pen, paper, the internet or a mobile phone is available.
    Read: Serving teens with hearing issues [...]

    “I Am The Happiest Deaf Teenager On Facebook”

    Thursday, April 11th, 2013

    His profile reads “I am the happiest deaf teenager on Facebook”. UK-based Jamie Williams started writing a blog after a friend said how happy and content he is, even when he’s deaf. And his writing ability shows in the blog.
    Read >> Deaf teenager’s blog takes Facebook by storm
    Jamie’s blog is “A Deaf Boy in A [...]

    Parents’ Essential Role In Language Development

    Saturday, March 30th, 2013

    Parents have a stronger role than researchers thought, in developing verbal language in children with hearing issues. A new study from the University of Miami shows “maternal sensitivity [has] strong and consistent effects on oral language learning”, a fact that hospital cochlear implant teams need to note.
    Mom’s sensitivity helps language learning in deaf children
    Dr Dana [...]

    “He Is Not Me”: A Book On Mainstream Education

    Monday, March 25th, 2013

    A new book, “He Is Not Me”, by Stuart McNaughton, tells the story of being deaf from birth – and opting for a cochlear implant in his twenties. Notably, Stuart’s parents mainstream-educated him, to equip him with real-world skills from the very start – with the support of teachers and professionals.
    Read >> He Is Not [...]

    Crowd-Computing: New Solutions For Captions

    Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

    Speech-to-text automation has a huge role in creating classroom captions for students with hearing and other issues, who don’t always note-take in class. To address the multi-speaker shortcomings of automated caption solutions, a program, Scribe, was devised at the University of Rochester.
    Scribe Tweaks Speech-To-Text Automation – With Humans
    Scribe works by crowd-sourcing humans to caption speech [...]

    Study Supports For Doctors With Hearing Issues

    Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

    An article, “Deafness Among Physicians and Trainees: A National Survey“, in the February 2013 issue of Academic Medicine, gives insights to how doctors with hearing issues access their training and get to work in the mainstream.
    Read: Are deaf/hoh physicians getting needed supports?
    Amplified stethoscopes (89%) were the most frequent accommodation, with hearing-devices/FM (32%), realtime captions (21%), sign [...]

    California Student Seeks Captions Instead Of FM

    Friday, March 8th, 2013

    In 2009, a California-based high school student with a cochlear implant asked her school district to provide realtime captions in class, instead of a FM system, which she said gave her headaches and relayed static noise. At end-2012, the case was reopened with a similar, second case in the state.
    Read: Student asks Tustin schools to [...]

    Teacher Question: Reading/Listening On The iPad

    Wednesday, March 6th, 2013

    A teacher asked about using an iPad with a pupil who’s partially hearing:

    What apps for reading and English did the IDK team recommend?
    How can the student listen to audio files and Skype, from their iPad?

    The student wears Phonak hearing aids and uses a FM system in school.
    This list suggests apps for students with reading challenges:
    Fifty [...]

    A Surgeon’s Thirty Million Words Project Research

    Wednesday, February 20th, 2013

    Chicago-based ENT surgeon, Dana Suskind, who oversees pediatric cochlear implants, is researching a thirty-million-word gap she sees among implanted children from lower socio-economic backgrounds. By age 3, these children hear 30 million fewer words than peers from more affluent backgrounds.
    With babies known to hear in the womb before birth, Suskind has a point.
    Read more >> [...]

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