Archive for the ‘Hearing Matters’ Category
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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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
The Sunday Business Post recently interviewed Kate Gaynor from Special Stories and IDK’s Caroline Carswell about their book, “A Birthday For Ben”.
The two-page feature in the SBP’s Agenda Magazine can be read as two colour pages (PDF files): (1) First page (2) Second page or as a webpage.
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
This question is highlighted after a comment on the IDK website, so other parents can add their points if wished. Students & parents discuss the issue on the IDK forum, in one of the most-read posts.
Hi, my son is 9 years old. He has a severe hearing loss in both ...
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Saturday, March 27th, 2010
The Arts Council invited IDK to bring three to five deaf teens/young adults (aged 15 to 23) to a EU-funded 3-day seminar in Dublin, March 27-29, 2010, with communication support. The event, Art-Youth-Culture: FYI, consists of a series of arts-based workshops & discussions, ending with dialogue between ...
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Find more tips from the mum of a deaf boy, and a creche manager online: Including Deaf Children At Preschool (Part One), & Part Two.
Key Question: what information sources did you use for advice on Charlie’s early learning in the creche? (internet / flyers / other?)
(The Mum)
Our creche ...
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Just recently, the Early Learning Initiative at National College of Ireland launched its new Parent Child Home Programme (PCHP). Many of the programme’s “points” are similar to the home-work the parents of severely to profoundly deaf children need to do, to develop their child’s language as early in life as ...
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Friday, March 12th, 2010
The National Audiology Review is inviting submissions from parents & carers of deaf children and service users, before March 19, 2010. This feedback comes from a mother of a 4 year old boy who was diagnosed as being profoundly deaf at 14 months old.
1. Newborn Hearing Screening:
Why ...
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
In recent years websites such as CaptionTube and independent services made videos and audio more accessible to deaf or hard of hearing people. In November 2009, Google announced the automatic captioning of videos on its YouTube site to boost captioning provision and support text indexing.
Existing captioning services are not always ...
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