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What's the time Mr Wolf? ISL

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What time is it Mr Wolf? With ISL & Narration

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students stand

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The game starts again

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3 o'clock

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3 Steps

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Count

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What time is it?

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Wolf

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catch

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Dinner time

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ISL - Repeat the question

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Adult Cochlear Implant Home-Based Auditory Training Program

The Adult Cochlear Implant Home-Based Auditory Manuals have been designed to provide hands-on material that are flexible and adaptable enough to cover a range of auditory abilities.
Clinician's Guide
Post lingual hearing loss - deafness occurred after spoken language was developed:

Pre lingual hearing loss - deafness occurred before spoken language was developed:

HOPE notes

Music should be fun, beautiful, funny, sad, soothing, and exciting - maybe all of those things at the same time. HOPE notes is a music program designed to support cochlear implant and hearing aid users improve music perception and appreciation using original songs, traditional Folk, Blues & Country styles and some familiar tunes played in unexpected ways. Through practice we want you to be able to enjoy music with your cochlear implant.

HOPE notes includes a CD, DVD, and a detailed user guide including lyrics designed to assist and enrich your use of the program. The DVD incorporates both visual and audio cues, while the CD (designed for use on the go) focuses solely on the audio component of the program.

A testimonial from a cochlear implant recipient who enjoyed the HOPE notes program:

"The first time I just watched and heard through the DVD. I smiled, hummed with and felt really for the first time ever to be invited into an advanced musical world which was perfectly adapted to me as hard of hearing. Every detail was visualised!"
- Movale Sin Blogg

Adult aural rehabilitation guide - Placement questionnaire

Sometimes there is limited time or a limited number of sessions for an adult's auditory rehabilitation. To create a treatment plan that is efficient and effective, it is useful to determine the recipient's present level of auditory functioning and go from there. This placement questionnaire allows the clinician to establish goals and select activities that are appropriate for the individual needs of each recipient.

Adult aural rehabilitation guide - Placement questionnaire:

Cochlear implant rehabilitation: It's Not Just for Kids!

This guide provides a brief introduction to the topic of aural rehabilitation for adults who have had a cochlear implantation. It discusses the benefits of rehabilitation, the programs available and how to select one to suit your learning style.

Cochlear implant rehabilitation - it's not just for kids guide:

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The Adult Cochlear Implant Home-Based Auditory Manuals have been designed to provide hands-on material that are flexible and adaptable enough to cover a range of auditory abilities. Clinician's Guide Post lingual hearing loss - deafness occurred after spoken language was developed: Pre lingual hearing loss - deafness occurred before spoken language was developed: Music should be fun, beautiful, funny, sad, soothing, and exciting - maybe all of those things at the same time.

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As your child settles into primary school, they'll be coming across lots of new maths vocabulary and learning. Working individually, as a class and in groups, they'll be investigating, counting, playing number games and using everyday objects to help them solve problems and do simple calculations. They'll be encouraged to talk about their methods for solving problems and presenting their results. You can easily practice the maths your child is doing at school when you're at home so don't worry about taking things more slowly with your child.

Here are some ideas of things you can do at home:

Use real life experiences such as games, everyday objects, songs, rhymes and stories and visual information like pictures and diagrams. Lots of the activities and games you've been playing your child will continue to enjoy. The time you spend helping your child to understand and feel confident with maths, will be key to keeping them engaged and positive.

Board games can help children to develop a wide range of maths skills while having fun. Snakes and Ladders is a good game to start with for counting and recognising the number patterns on a dice.

Playing card games with a standard pack of playing cards can help teach children new strategies for using mathematical information, categorising patterns, sequencing and sorting to develop maths skills and thinking. You could start with Snap and Pairs and move onto Pontoon or Rummy. Find out more about how playing cards helps with maths on The School Run website.

How to help your child with:

Counting and numbers: Put numbers, words and symbols, in order - how high can you go? Look at odd and even numbers on houses when you're out and about. Pay attention to number patterns, for example, on dice and dominoes.

Adding and subtracting: Use toys, objects and your fingers and see what happens when you add more or take away. Use language such 'one more', 'less', 'how may altogether' or 'if we subtract or takeaway one how many will be left?'. Begin to explore which numbers added together make 10 using cards or dominoes.

Multiplication: Practice counting in twos, threes and fives when you're in the car or walking to school. Talk about adding and multiplying. You can use small objects in bowls to help your child understand that 2 2 2 is the same as three groups of two or 3x2.

Division: Play lots of games sharing out sweets or fruit between toys or family members so it's fair or 'equal'. Use the words 'share' and 'divide' together. Seeing and doing will help your child to practically understand that division is the same as 'grouping' or 'sharing'. For example, 9 ÷ 3 is nine divided into three equal groups or shared between three objects or people. As they get better at doing this you can make the task more difficult, for example, sharing out 16 raisins between four people or asking how many groups of four can be made with 12 raisins.

Fractions: Pizza, cake and fruit are great opportunities to talk about different parts of a whole object. Use the words 'half', 'third' and 'quarter' when you divide things into two, three and four.

Shape: Identify different shapes when going on walks or out shopping and make collections of 2D and 3D objects at home. Explore where you find different shapes and how they're used every day. Spot patterns in nature and use objects you find to create your own.

Measurement: Your child can be introduced to quantities and weights in everyday activities. For example, in cooking where ingredients can be weighed out, or shopping where fruit and vegetables can be put on scales at the supermarket. Shopping is also a good way to introduce your child to volume. For example, encourage them to compare a litre container of milk with two-litre and four-litre containers. If you're filling up the car with petrol you can talk about how many litres it takes to fill the car. Use rulers, measuring tapes and smart watches to measure distances at home and when you're out and about.

Time: This is an abstract concept, which means it can't be seen or shown easily and to describe and understand abstract concepts children need to use language. Use lots of words to describe time in everyday routines such as 'now', 'then', 'later', 'soon', 'tomorrow', 'yesterday', 'before', 'after', 'next week', 'last week', 'in a month' or 'last year'. Calendars and other visual planners are a great way to show the passing of time and talk about it. They can also help your child learn the days of the week, the seasons and the months of year in the right order.

In order to tell the time children need to understand how we divide time up into hours, minutes and seconds. They also need to be able to work with numbers up to 60, understand a clock face, how time can be recorded digitally and understand the many ways we describe the time. Talk about the time and give your child opportunities to play with and explore clock faces, stop watches, timers and see all the different ways time is recorded.

Money: Using real money in play activities like setting up a restaurant or vet's is a great way of familiarising children with money. Help your child to buy things like an ice cream and use words such as 'amount', 'price' and 'change'. Giving children small amounts of money of their own which they can count and spend helps them understand value.

Statistics: Data handling at primary school means gathering and recording information and then presenting it in a way that's meaningful to others. Ask your child to find out which fruits different family members prefer, for example apples or pears, so you know which ones to buy. Find out how to record the information in different ways on The School Run's website.

Problem solving and reasoning: Children love challenges. You can set your child simple, practical problems to solve using objects, timers, containers and real life situations. For example, 'Who can do the most many star jumps in one minute?' Ask who they think will be able to do the most, identify what object they'll need to measure time and how can they could present the results.

Word problems: Maths problems which involve lots of language and several steps, can be difficult for deaf children. This is because they might struggle to remember and process and order all the information or not understand some of the vocabulary. Use objects and toys to help solve word problems.

An example of a word problem could be:

A class of 10 children each have five pencils in their pencil cases. How many pencils are there in total?

Encourage children to draw 10 children or use 10 bowls and then place five pencils in each bowl.

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Primary school maths skills | Helping your deaf child learn at home

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As your child settles into primary school, they'll be coming across lots of new maths vocabulary and learning. Working individually, as a class and in groups, they'll be investigating, counting, playing number games and using everyday objects to help them solve problems and do simple calculations.

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Phonological Awareness for Children with Hearing Loss

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The key to successful sessions is to provide engaging, age-appropriate opportunities for language learners. Knowing the special interests of your learner is important, and there are some activities that are sure-fire successes no matter the age or language level of the child.
Cooking
Cooking is always a crowd pleaser and a great way to engage all students. When making simple recipes, such as jello, language targets can easily be modified to meet the needs of the learner. For new language learners the language focus should be on single words, such as open, stir and pour. For more advanced language learners, focus on more complex language structures such as partitives ("Pour a half cup of water into the bowl") or sequence words (f irst, next, then). Cooking can easily be adapted to any child's language needs.
Snack-time
Food is almost always engaging when working on language targets. Snack-time is a daily part of most children's routine and a terrific way to practice a myriad of language structures. For new language learners create a snack mat with pictures of target vocabulary. Elicit receptive and expressive vocabulary practice by asking, "Can you put the cracker on the tiger?" or "Where do you want your cracker?" Snack-time is a time to practice carrier phrases such as " I want" and " May I have" in an organic way. For more advanced language learners allow them to help and provide them opportunities to practice questions in a natural way. Prompt them to ask questions such as, " Do you want crackers or a granola bar?", "How many do you want?" or "What color cup do you want? " Capitalizing on simple routines is a great opportunity to teach and practice new language structures.
Books
Books are engaging at any age and can be used to teach and practice almost any language structure. For new language learners books can be used to practice labeling words and Where? questions. For more advanced language learners, focus on complex language structures. Wordless books, such as Tomie dePoala's, Pancakes for Breakfast, are great to target present progressive verbs or adverbs. Books with repetitive language, such as Mercer Mayer's Little Critter series, offer many opportunities to practice conjunctions within compound sentences.
Songs
Songs are an exceptional way to engage the young to the young at heart. For the youngest of language learners, songs can be created to practice beginning sounds such as bilabials. Embed targeted sounds into the song and provide an expectant pause for the child to practice their target sound. For example, I love cookies. I love cookies. Mmm, Mmm, Mmm or A ll the little bubbles go.... pop, pop, pop. Super Simple Songs on YouTube is a wonderful commercial resource for simple vocabulary practice. Once your language learner is a bit older, songs can be used to practice more complex language structures as well as academic vocabulary. A fantastic commercial resource for elementary age children is GoNoodle which can also be found on YouTube.
Experience Stories
Pictures, Pictures, Pictures. Take pictures no matter what language experience you create for your learners. Children are highly motivated by pictures of their friends and themselves. Creating a book with the pictures of the experiences you provided is an effective way to elicit language. Ask leading questions to practice the targeted language structures and write it down in real time. After you have created the book together, your learner can practice the targeted language structures for days to come.

These language activities will not only have your student happily engaged throughout your session, but also give opportunities for optimal language growth.
Click HERE to read PART 1 of Five language activities for children with hearing loss of any age at any language level.
Daun Grempler, MS, CED, is currently a teacher of the deaf at CID - Central Institute for the Deaf in the Virginia J. Browning Primary School. Daun has served as a teacher of the deaf teaching preschoolers and kindergarteners in the CID Anabeth and John Weil Early Childhood Center. She has also been a toddler class teacher and parent educator in the CID Joanne Parrish Knight Family Center, providing early intervention services to families in their homes. Daun served as lecturer at Washington University's School of Medicine Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences. At this time, she holds a teaching certification in the area of Deaf and Hearing Impaired and is credentialed with the early intervention program in Missouri.

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Five (MORE) language activities for children with hearing loss of any age at any language level: Part 2 - CID Professional Development

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The key to successful sessions is to provide engaging, age-appropriate opportunities for language learners. Knowing the special interests of your learner is important, and there are some activities that are sure-fire successes no matter the age or language level of the child. Cooking Cooking is always a crowd pleaser and a great way to engage all students.

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If you are looking for fun, no-fail language activities, you've come to the right place. These five activities can be used to practice vocabulary and elicit a variety of language structures for students with hearing loss at any age.

1) Experience stories
Take pictures during a nature walk, field trip or science experiment. Use the pictures to make a book and have the child dictate the language used in the experience. Children love to see themselves and their friends in the pictures and will want to share the book with others, getting multiple opportunities to practice the target language structures and vocabulary. Check out this blog post for examples of experience stories.

2) Role plays
Use role plays to retell stories using targeted language. Choose simple books with characters that have dialogue with other characters. Good ones for younger kids are The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Little Red Hen and Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Add some props to make the activity more fun! Older kids may like books from the Frog and Toad series or chapters from Pippi Longstocking and Charlotte's Web.

3) Games
Teacher- and commercial-made games are a great way to practice syntax and pragmatic language. Practice turn-taking, asking and answering questions, vocabulary and more with games such as Candyland and Memory. Adapt a commercial-made game by replacing the cards with your targeted language. To review question forms and vocabulary using Candyland with older students, have each student roll a die and answer a question written on a card (e.g., have a student ask Jane if she knows the definition of a gas and what it is). If the student answers correctly, she can move that amount of spaces on the board.

4) Pretend Experiences
Setting up experiences for students to pretend can help with listening and language when the actual experience occurs. Create a restaurant and practice ordering from the menu, role playing each part (e.g., server, customer, chef). With older students, practice ordering pizza. You'll give students the opportunity to practice vocabulary, syntax and pragmatic language while listening in a quieter setting. The real fun can happen if you make the pretend experience a real one.

5) Art
Cutting, gluing, painting and drawing can be taken up a notch when you use it as a language activity. Have children ask each other for their art materials and say what they will do with it. By the end, they will have a beautiful art project while practicing vocabulary and language along the way.

Whether you teach younger or older kids with hearing loss or they use simple or complex language, these fun and easy activities will guarantee successful language lessons.

Looking for more ideas to use in the classroom? Try some science experiments for preschoolers. And if you're new to teaching students with hearing loss, you can learn more about ways to support them by watching one of our free online courses.
READ THIS BLOG IN SPANISH! Jennifer Manley was a teacher of the deaf and associate coordinator of the Emerson Center for Professional Development at Central Institute for the Deaf- CID. Ms. Manley is co-author of the CID SPICE for Life auditory learning curriculum and author of the 2nd Edition CID SPICE auditory training curriculum.

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5 language activities for children with hearing loss

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From games to art activities, these five foolproof language activities can be used to practice vocabulary and elicit a variety of language structures.

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The Irish Deaf society supported by Libraries Ireland and European Union of the Deaf (EUD)/Huawei Project have been working together to launch ISL Story Sign part of the International Week of Deaf people. In agreement with publishers, each libraries chose their own book to translate in ISL.

The international Week of Deaf People is celebrated through various activities by Deaf communities all around the world. These include events welcoming everyone and all members of Deaf communities, which include families of Deaf people, professionals and accredited sign language interpreters, peers as well as stakeholders and government, and organisations of Persons with Disabilities.

On this International Day of Sign Languages, we celebrate collective efforts of Irish Deaf community, governments and society in recognising and promoting Irish Sign Language (ISL) - together we recognise sign languages as an essential human right for Deaf people and children.

Each day of the week has different theme, we will be launching the ISL Story Sign videos on Friday's theme "Sign Language Unite Us!"     at 12pm

Keep an eye on our social media and share the videos to all families and friends.

September 2022

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More children stories in ISL

The Irish Deaf Society has received funding from Huawei and EUD to launch an exciting project. This follows on from the success of Huawei's StorySign App and EUD have collaborated with Huawei to fund Deaf organisations in Europe to provide a project for their community. We have used this funding to provide ISL Linguistics workshops and ISL classes for parents and professionals working with Deaf children, which are ongoing. If interested you can contact us for more information.

We are delighted to announce that, as part of this project, we have produced 4 videos of ISL Stories for Deaf children! All 4 of the stories are Irish Legends and Myths as these types of stories are not available in ISL and we felt it is important to promote this part of Irish culture. We would like to thank publishers Gill Books and authors Yvonne Carroll, Fiona Waters and Felicity Trotman for giving us permission to use their book.

We will be launching a new video every Monday in June, starting on the bank holiday Monday, 1st June! Keep an eye on our social media accounts to see which story will be published every week. We really hope you enjoy the videos and please share with all your friends and family.

June 2020

Huawei Mobile
EUD - The European Union of the Deaf

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Primary Sampler Module Teacher's Notes ISL - Flipbook - Page 1

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Teacher's Notes Say Yes to Languages Primary Sampler Module Irish Sign Language Delivered by Supported by

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Concise ISL (Irish Sign Language) * Dnote

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This is an impressive app. It's not free, but very cheap, and available for iOS and Android.While it would not usually be thought of as an art activity, it is by definition visual culture. It's also fascinating, and a little step towards greater social inclusivity.(It's odd to think that there is an easily accessible, whole [...]

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2023 Summer Programme for Special Schools