AMCHP is pleased to announce the upcoming webinar – Measuring a Life Course Approach to MCH: The AMCHP Life Course Metrics Project and Final Set of Indicators. The webinar is scheduled for Tuesday, November 19th, 2013, from 2-3pm Eastern.
Link: https://cc.callinfo.com/cc/s/registrations/new?cid=1q7ooo870bwy3
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Infants, Toddlers, and Families: Collaboration and Leadership Program
The Infants, Toddlers and their Families Interdisciplinary Certificate Program at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC is now accepting applications for their new courses that will begin in May 2014. The first course begins with a 3-day on campus introduction and orientation to the program May 17, 18 and 19. Applications should be submitted by February 1, 2014 to guarantee a place in the program. Students may obtain either graduate credits or professional studies training credits.
Link: http://www.gallaudet.edu/rgs/graduate_school/graduate_admissions/certificate_programs/itf.html
Link: http://www.gallaudet.edu/rgs/graduate_school/graduate_admissions/certificate_programs/itf.html
How An Algorithm Is Going To Bring Music To The Deaf
Les Atlas, Ph.D., Jay Rubinstein, MD, Ph.D., and Kaibao Nie, Ph.D., at the University of Washington, Seattle, have created a new algorithm that is poised to change the way that more than 200,000 cochlear implant users around the world perceive music.
Link: http://www.fastcompany.com/3021353/reverse-engineered/how-an-algorithm-is-going-to-bring-music-to-the-deaf
Ten Practices to Promote the Communication Skills of Infants and Toddlers
A new resource published by the FPG Child Development Institute, More Than Baby Talk: 10 Ways to Promote the Language and Communication Skills of Infants and Toddlers (2013), by N. Gardner-Neblett and K.C. Gallagher, describes ten practices that early childhood teachers can use to foster language and communication skills among infants and toddlers. The guidelines are based on the latest research findings on optimal adult-child interactions for promoting strong language and communication skills among young children.
Link: http://www.fpg.unc.edu/sites/fpg.unc.edu/files/resources/reports-and-policy-briefs/FPG_BabyTalk_WEB_2013.pdf
Kinect Sign Language Translator expands communication possibilities for the deaf
Worldwide, an estimated 360 million people are deaf or hard of hearing. Because the majority of hearing individuals do not understand sign language, people who are deaf often have difficulties interacting with the hearing. While other methods exist, researchers hope to make translation even easier with a cost-effective, efficient prototype that translates sign language into spoken language—and spoken language into sign language—in real time.
Link: http://phys.org/news/2013-11-kinect-language-possibilities-deaf.html
Link: http://phys.org/news/2013-11-kinect-language-possibilities-deaf.html
Audiology Capstone Survey
Amy Rogers, an AuD student, is seeking audiologists to complete an online questionnaire regarding tele-audiology practice. Experience delivering tele-audiologic care is not required, and responses are anonymous and voluntary. The purpose of the survey is to assess audiologists’ satisfaction with providing tele-audiology services and to gauge audiologists’ attitudes about potentially providing this type of care in the areas of newborn hearing screenings,
hearing aid and cochlear implant programming and troubleshooting, and aural rehabilitation. To complete this 10-minute survey, click the link below be directed to the questionnaire by December 31, 2013. Please contact Amy.l.rogers@vanderbilt.edu if you have questions. She is willing to provide the final manuscript once all data has been collected and analyzed.
Link: https://redcap.vanderbilt.edu/surveys/?s=oKqNvwgmQ4
World first device offers new insight into life with a cochlear implant
For the first time, scientists can use a well-established brain imaging technique called MEG, or magnetoencephalography, to measure brain function in recipients of cochlear implants, including young children.
Link: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-10-world-first-device-insight-life-cochlear.html
The November edition of Probes and Tips is now available
Next Steps for Children Not Passing the Hearing Screening
Link: http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs154/1102782899287/archive/1115452931981.html
Improving the Website Resource Guide!
Take a quick survey and let us know what you think about the Website Resource guide – (Found at http://infanthearing.org/webguide.) Tell us how important your state’s EHDI website is for providing information to providers and families. Do you have other suggestions for improvements or any additional information you would like to know about websites?
Link: http://www.infanthearing.org/survey/WRG
Link: http://www.infanthearing.org/survey/WRG
Registration open and Call for Papers extended for FCEI
Registration NOW Open and Call for Papers EXTENDED to November 30th for the 2nd International Congress on Family-Centred Early Intervention (FCEI) for Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. The event will be held June 11 – 13, 2014, in Bad Ischl, Austria. PARENT REGISTRATION DISCOUNTED and our thanks to the generous sponsorship of MedEl, FCEI 2014 has a limited number of scholarships available for parents. Please visit the website to complete an on-line application for financial aid.