Timeline For Bilateral Cochlear Implants In Ireland
A parent briefing was held in Dublin on May 10th, 2014 by the national cochlear implant centre (NCIC) in Ireland to advise parents on timelines for the bilateral cochlear implant programme to roll out...
View ArticleParent Guidance For Developing Language Skills
Talking to your baby from birth [especially when hearing-devices are worn], is crucial for their infant language development. While most babies hear for two months before birth, there will be babies...
View ArticleSpeech Teletherapy Matches In-Person Results
Outcomes for children receiving remote-speech therapy by telepractice, are similar to in-person sessions with a therapist. A report by Hear and Say, on using Skype to deliver teletherapy services to...
View ArticleSummer Camp For Media And Teamwork Skills
Media work traditionally was challenging when people had hearing issues – but digital hearing devices have changed this. Essentially, the children in this video use new media tools and presentation...
View ArticleGuide For Children To Speak A Second Language
The first-ever book for families, audiologists and teachers working to teach second, spoken languages to children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing, is now available. Its author, Michael Douglas, a...
View ArticleFCC Ruling Raises Need For Realtime Captioners
Captions on TV shows in the US, are regulated by new FCC (Federal Communications Commission) controls since March 2014. The four critical elements are: accuracy, synchronization, completeness, and...
View ArticleWebinar: School-Based Educational Audiology (US)
The Educational Audiology Association (EAA) in the US is hosting a webinar on July 22, for which families and professionals may like to register. > Contracted School-Based Services: the ‘highs’ and...
View ArticleBluetooth Stethoscopes For Doctors With Implants
Current teens with cochlear implants will like to read of Singapore-born Dr Joseph Heng and two female students, US-born Victoria Popov, with otolaryngology (ENT) in her sights, and UK-born Genevieve...
View ArticleTheatre Builds Deaf Childrens’ Speaking Skills
Confidence and speaking skills for deaf children feature in this CNN video with Michelle Christie, founder of the No Limits non-profit, which now has three centres in California and in Las Vegas, to...
View ArticleThe #95Decibels Film Returns To Dublin
The 95 Decibels film returned to Dublin on June 10th, 2017 at the Irish Film Institute, for a “Take Two” after a successful event in 2014 at which many parents realised their children with cochlear...
View ArticleAudiologists’ Role In Deaf Children Talking
Audiologist supply and quality hearing services are vital for born-deaf infants to get to hear and talk, according to Susan Daniels, CEO of the UK’s National Deaf Childrens’ Society. In a recent...
View ArticleSpoken Language Best For Kids With Implants
Researcher Ann Geers, (Pediatrics, June 2017) published some very compelling data about children with cochlear implants and sign language use. Specifically, no advantage existed for parents to use sign...
View ArticleClosing Educational Gaps For Deaf Children
Demand for specialist teachers of speaking deaf children is so high that all graduates from the teaching program at California Lutheran University (CLU) were hired out of their course before summer...
View ArticleEarly Intervention By One-Three-Six Months
Ninety-six per cent of infants in the US have a newborn hearing test by one month old, but many do not access the Early Hearing Detection Intervention guidelines of 1-3-6 months, or detection by one...
View ArticleAustralia Leaves Each Deaf Child $10K Short For AVT
On average, each deaf child in Australia is left AUD $10,000 short of public funding to access early intervention listening and spoken language services from birth to age three, with non-governmental...
View ArticleDeaf Kids Learn Words Faster Than Hearing Kids
Young deaf children with bilateral cochlear implants can learn words faster than hearing peers at 12, 18 and 24 months after implantation, electroencephalography studies show. We observed that when...
View ArticleWhat Twenty-First Century Deafness Looks Like
Deafness is different in the twenty-first century. With today’s digital hearing technology, why consign potentially talented students, teammates and/or work colleagues to lesser life-roles? Changing...
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