Archive for March, 2009
Friday, March 27th, 2009
A Glasgow-based charity, Deaf Connections, is Europe’s first organisation to pilot a new way of teaching English to deaf people as a second language.
The manipulative visual language (MVL) system, devised a decade ago at Gallaudet University, uses wooden blocks to depict grammar components.
Indigenous sign languages like the Irish and British sign languages have different grammar ...
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
April 7 is the final date to register for the Easter Camp run by DeafHear’s Dublin South Resource Centre on Thursday April 16 & Friday April 17.
Thursday’s activities include a mystery tour and a playground trip, while Friday’s highlight will be a trip to Dublin Zoo.
For further details, contact Julianne ...
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Saturday, March 21st, 2009
The National Deaf Childrens’ Society (NDCS) in the UK believes deaf children need to be better accommodated in the government’s 2020 strategy for the workforce dealing with children and young people.
NDCS’ key recommendations in its feedback on this strategy include:
Better guidance for mainstream teachers working with deaf children
An audit of the early years workforce ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
The National Competitiveness Council recently issued key points to prepare the country’s education system to contribute to future economic growth.
Some recommendations are a direct fit for IDK’s mission.
1) Develop a formal pre-primary education system as a key priority
Specifically:
integrating disadvantaged children into education as early as possible
providing pre-primary education & centre-based daycare at one venue
re-orienting the ...
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
Some time ago, IDK ran a piece about making picture diaries for natural language development and keeping weekly diaries to teach literacy.
Parents and teachers at some schools send home-school books back and forth with a child who’s deaf, to keep a running log of what’s learned in classes.
Blogs can actually become a ...
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