Archive for April, 2010
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Children need to develop literacy skills before their first day of school and research consistently shows children learn literacy skills even before talking.
Emergent literacy theorists believe that children start learning about literacy (reading and writing) from birth. Infants can learn about the letters of the alphabet and concepts of print ...
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Monday, April 26th, 2010
Mobile phone subscribers worldwide, will hit the 5 billion mark sometime in 2010. Similarly, the U.S. Department of Education has earmarked $5 billion in competitive school-reform grants to scale up pilot programs of devices and define best practices of all kinds.
An article, “How Smartphones and Handheld Devices Are Bringing On ...
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
Late in 2009, South Africa’s “Got Talent” show announced its winner, a deaf hip-hop dancer named Darren Rajibal. The 19 year-old had danced for just four years when during a power cut he decided to entertain family and friends by dancing. Many of his moves were learned ...
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
On April 8, 2010, Anna Daly from Cork radio station LifeFM talked with IDK’s Miriam Walsh, who attended the Arts Council’s Future Arts conference in Dublin from March 27 - 29, 2010. A podcast of this interview is in progress and will be posted here in due course.
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Sunday, April 18th, 2010
For a €4k cash prize, small firms in Ireland were recently invited by 3 Mobile and the Sunday Business Post’s “Computers in Business” magazine, to describe how €4,000 would boost their business in 2010.
Irish Deaf Kids is delighted to advise that its pitch won the competition.
This funding will be invested ...
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Thursday, April 15th, 2010
Young deaf students attending Lawrence Elementary School in the US have seen the literacy and numeracy benefits of a new software programme.
In the classroom, audio output from the computer is sent via radio waves, directly to receivers the students wear on their hearing aids and/or cochlear implants. Ambient noise ...
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Deafness had a key role in the invention of the phone, the internet and SMS texting. As voting for Ireland’s Net Visionary Awards gets under way, Miriam Walsh explains the link to each technology.
Would you consider deafness in any way to have influenced the telephone, Internet and SMS texting as ...
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Deafness had a key role in the invention of the phone, the internet and SMS texting. As voting for Ireland’s Net Visionary Awards gets under way, Miriam Walsh explains the link to each technology.
Would you consider deafness in any way to have influenced the telephone, Internet and SMS texting as ...
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Friday, April 9th, 2010
Here’s another mum’s story about being let down by audiology services in Ireland, after her son failed a hearing test at 9 months. Other parents also shared their stories on the irishdeafkids.ie site.
Charlie was 10 months old when the audiologist suggested glue ear was the underlying issue. I was told ...
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
IDK was recently invited by the Arts Council to attend its Future Arts: FYI 2010 event for youngsters aged 15 to 23, in Dublin (March 27 - 29, 2010).
Our role was to give a ‘deaf’ angle to the young delegates at the weekend’s discussions and workshops. This included basic ...
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