Archive for August, 2008
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
On August 29, Trinity College Dublin hosted a pre-college entry day for new deaf and hard-of-hearing students to experience a college environment.
The day was based around informal presentations in which deaf students & graduates of various colleges related their experiences & answered questions.
After question-time, the session leaders moved into the audience ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Some months ago, during a conversation with a friend of a friend, it was a surprise to discover he had studied five languages at school, up to fifth year.
My question was, why had he stopped then? The only other person I knew who had studied as many languages had gone on to ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
The National Council for Special Education is an independent statutory body set up to improve educational services to persons with special needs arising from disabilities, with particular emphasis on children.
Conducting research is one of the Council’s key functions.
NCSE are currently preparing a Research Framework which will outline priority areas for ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Our “Kids in Action” photo competition has now moved online with the support of Pixie, the Irish photo-sharing service.
Pixie responded to our initial outreach and developed the Irish Deaf Kids group for the competition as a closed member’s group with a guest pass.
Entry details are in our introduction to the competition ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Education policies elsewhere in Europe make interesting reading, and France for one, has a mixed system for educating denizens who are deaf.
About 12,000 deaf children and adolescents are currently in the education system in France, out of an estimated population of 61.5 million.
An estimated 500 deaf students are in third-level education ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Hello family and friends! If you would like to stay up late tonight and watch my wedding, The URL is:mms://media1.syr.edu/VPU LiveThere is a space between VPU and Live. The wedding starts TODAY (Saturday, 16 August) at 7pm EST, which is midnight in Ireland.All the Best,Jen
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Many 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, ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Trinity College Dublin will host a pre-college entry day for deaf and hard of hearing students on August 29 as part of the DS3 (Deaf Support in Third Level) project. This is a national project aimed at increasing accessibility and opportunities within third-level education.
The day will consist of presentations and ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
Support is available for deaf students in third-level education, but as an IDK forum member has written, supports at his local college were insufficient.
We’ll call him “J” in this piece. He’s 24 and has a progressive, acquired hearing loss of 49% in his left ear and 69% in his right ear.
After learning of ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
A mum recently told me her son learned Lamh (the language for nonverbal children) at school, so the kids could sign with a boy who used Lamh.
With ‘baby sign’ growing in recent years, there’s a higher chance that kids in the same class as a child who signs, will know some ...
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