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IRISH DEAF KIDS (IDK), an organisation supporting deaf children and their families, will host a seminar on Tuesday to offer support and advice to deaf teens and their parents who are feeling isolated.
Sixteen-year-old Ellen Arthur, a youth adviser to the National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) who is at a mainstream school, will share strategies at a free workshop for handling potential social isolation and for building rapport with everyday contacts.
IDK said it welcomes expressions of interest from teens who are deaf and hard-of-hearing and their parents, for this free morning session.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie, CEO of IDK Caroline Carswell said “deafness is quite rare in the youth population, meaning many students will be the only person with hearing issues in their school”.
“If they are shy or introverted, they can have difficulty explaining to others how specifically to include them in conversations with students and teachers, in classes, or in sports teams,” she said.
Carswell said parents of children with hearing difficulties often have low expectations for their futures.
“Quite often, we are asked “what is a good job for a deaf person to have?” – which infuriates us,” she said. “We know doctors, veterinarians, dentists, hobby pilots and software architects with hearing issues, who use technologies to level their fields of work. Deafness is different, in the digital age, and people need to know this.”
She said modern technologies such as digital hearing aids and cochlear impants restore some hearing for children and teens with profound deafness, though they are not a cure.
“For this reason, some detail in conversations and teaching can be missed,” she said. “This is where the students benefit from visual detail such as accessible multimedia in schools and in college classrooms as well as from reading news online.”
Apart from Ellen Arthur’s workshop on Tuesday, discussions will also cover:
Real-time captioning and ISL interpretation will be available for this event. Attendee places and access to the event are strictly limited to 30 registered names. A cancellation list will assign places on a first-registered basis.
Registration is essential and it closes today so if you’re interested in attending the seminar, email info@irishdeafkids.ie to request a registration form.
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They should be hung drawn and quartered for making me use that pesky messenger app!
Did you read the terms for having that messenger app.
Aw, you ok hun?
@Alan, after checking out your link I feel great having always declined facebook’s incessant offer of the messenger app. That is some scary schizz. I certainly would have blindly accepted the terms and conditions
Thx for posting that
How is it even legal what they are
Doing..deleted.
The way I see it, if people want me they can text me or call and I can pick up my Facebook message on the laptop
If you read t+c’s of the journal the app can view and delete contents on your sd card. Why?
Thanks for that link Alan, have just deleted it from my phone!
After looking at Alans’s link I thought what a load of old nonsense.
The author is clearly pretty clueless about app permissions on android.
Why don’t you check the permissions of any other messaging app you have on android, they all have pretty much the same.
This is just the standard android permissions written to be as scary as possible.
Check out google hangouts now standard on android, not only does it have all these permissions but it can access your location at any time and read and edit your calendar at any time Gasp!
Just more ant-facebook ain’t I cool hipster nonsense.
If you are worried about Facebook and your privacy
Do not be on Facebook
sticking your ass in the air
like you just don’t care
You fine sir,deserve a medal
Like
Facebook is worth about $200 billion all thanks to the data you give them. they profit from data on users.
Are people “liking” this as a joke?
watch “terms and conditions apply” on Netflix. It will open your eyes.
seen it, recommend everyone sees it, though it confirmed what i’ve always known. planned obsolescence docu is another interesting one.
In those T&Cs posted by the Huffington post, what is meant by a malicious app may do this without your permission? Is it talking about the messenger app or what?
No it’s not talking about the facebook app.
They are standard permissions that any app can ask for.
If you install some dodgy app from somewhere and it asks for those permissions it can do dodgy things and record audio and video all the time.
The facebook app asks to record audio and take pictures so it can support its voice message and picture and video sending abilities.
Also, android users check this out….. Open google (assuming your signed in) click account > account history > places you’ve been.
You can select each date and it will show you exactly where you were etc. Why….? well each time you enable location for maps apps etc…. in the settings menu > Location > On… you will see the message below flash up. Agree or disagree….. always disagree.
Location Consent !
Allow googles location service to collect anonymous location data. Some data may be stored on your device. Collection may occur even when no apps are running.
these people are delusional if they think they’re gonna get any $ of that sociopath Zuckerberg
You’d think Facebook would have registered fbclaim.com along with 20,000 intelligible variations for just such an occasion.
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