Interview With DS3 Project Officer, Emma Clarke
Monday, November 16th, 2009Miriam Walsh, IDK´s journalist intern, recently met Emma Clarke, project officer of Trinity College Dublin´s Deaf Support at Third-Level (DS3) project to find out what supports students can use.
Starting college is never easy. Sometimes none of your friends are at the same college and you may be far away from home. Being deaf or hard of hearing [...]
Sign Language In Schools Benefits All Students
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009Ballymahon Convent of Mercy Secondary School is breaking ground in deaf education in the midlands with a new deaf unit, which is currently educating two young girls in the mainstream system.
An initiative of Eileen O’Donovan (graduate in Deaf Studies at Trinity College Dublin), the unit was set up in September 2008 and supports several deaf [...]
Computers Learn To Identify Signs In TV Footage
Monday, October 26th, 2009Three PhD candidates in the Netherlands have spent the last few years developing technology to recognise sign language in real-time.
One researcher, Jeroen Arendsen, said, “Very little is known about the perception of sign language. The aim of this research was to expand our knowledge of human observation of signing. For instance, it turns out that [...]
Low-Cost Internet Video Streaming For Educators
Monday, October 19th, 2009A low-cost way of video-streaming to use and distribute information online has been described in the US by Thomas McNeal Jr. and Landon Kearns.
Their article, “Using Video Streaming: Setting up a Cheap System for Distributing Information to Teachers and Students” explores how to set up a streaming system, using tools readily available in classrooms.
Vintage computers [...]
Teacher’s Story: Deaf Students In Adult Education
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009More and more deaf students are being taught in third-level classes, some mainstream and others not. Here, Sinead Quealy, from Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), recounts her experience of teaching a group of adult deaf students. Her experience may help lecturers who teach deaf students.
I taught adults for three years in Waterford City VEC. [...]
Tutorial Captioning Benefits Deaf Students’ Access
Monday, October 5th, 2009Premier Captioning Wicklow are proud to advise that they are working with a deaf student at Trinity College Dublin to provide support in group tutorials where students are asked to discuss questions or issues raised by the tutor.
The service is remote, which means the transcriber does not have to be physically in the room. This [...]
Interactive Whiteboards Promote Pupils’ IT Literacy
Monday, July 20th, 2009Using interactive whiteboards in mainstream primary school classrooms motivates pupils by offering educational tools with a strong visual learning element. For deaf children who learn visually, whiteboards can contribute to inclusive teaching in many ways.
Interactive teaching directly at the whiteboard is possible, instead of the child missing instructions while at a classroom workstation
The child easily [...]
Interactive Whiteboards Benefit Inclusive Teaching
Sunday, December 21st, 2008Interactive whiteboards altered teaching practices at St Columba’s Girls National School in Co Cork, after its deaf pupils benefited from the tools.
St Columba’s GNS, which has a facility for deaf students and teaches all its 600 students sign language, quickly realised the value of the whiteboards.
When teaching new concepts in class, visual images and subtitles can [...]
Trinity College Dublin’s DS3 Website Goes Live
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Trinity College Dublin has launched its DS3 (Deaf Support at Third-Level) website, which has specific zones for students, teachers and access officers.
Deaf and hard-of-hearing students are significantly under-represented at third-level in Ireland. The national DS3 project aims to increase the number and retention of these students by providing student-driven supports and services, public education on key issues, and [...]
One Teacher’s View: Deaf Students At College
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Many teachers or lecturers who are assigned a deaf student in their classes, can only see potential disadvantages and no way to circumvent these.
Andy Kohn, who taught a deaf student at a VEC, believes otherwise.
” A deaf student in a mainstream college class has, for me, advantages rather than disadvantages. Admittedly, I teach photography, a visual [...]