Archive for the ‘Hearing Matters’ Category
Friday, May 7th, 2010
After the Deaf Education Conference in Croke Park on March 4, 2010, a group of parents met to discuss setting up a national Parents’ Forum for parents & families of D/deaf and hard of hearing children and young adults.
This Forum would be for all parents of D/deaf and hard of ...
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
Three seminars on ‘Language and Literacy Development in Children with a Hearing Loss’ are provided in May by the Special Education Support Service.
Content for primary & secondary teachers at mainstream schools in Ireland will be presented by guest speaker, Dr. Connie Mayer, Associate Professor EdD, York University, Toronto, Canada.
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
Kids aged 8 to 17 with disabilities, are invited by the Irish Sailing Association and Disability Federation of Ireland to learn to sail in Dublin this summer.
A ‘taster’ session will be held on Sunday, June 20, at 10.30am in Dun Laoghaire Marina, after which interested kids can enroll for five ...
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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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