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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.
What a nice way to start the week! Some good news…. finally!
Actual good news. Expect trolls to start abuse…..now.
40 red thumbs for good news. Nobody with the balls to say why. Not happy unless their miserable types probably need a ride.
It’s all a lie getting people to do a weeks work for 20 euro extra on top of there dole does not mean that their working for a proper weeks wage. This tus is a government scam.
And here come the begrudgers, no doubt. How sad it is that it is the default position of so many people on here to greet good news like this with cynicism and evident disappointment purely because it contradicts their “the end is nigh, blame the Government” narrative. Such a dark place to be.
I think they chose a nice picture of Richard for the article, he looks pleased and content and has a nice round bow tie.
One shouldn’t dare to have a critical mindset, lest one attract the dreaded label of ‘begrudger’. Sure if IBEC says there’s good news, it must be true.
Dietrich you are spot on ,take anything this government or any of its institutions says with a pinch of salt you are being sucked in by deception they only have their own interests at heart ,the political classes.
@Touchy.. I could possibly fit into the ‘begrudger” category you state, however to fight my corner I would usually be begrudging due to the fact the way the news is reported more than what it was trying to say. Usually its unemployment figures, however in this case they are actually showing employment figures on the rise, which is not just good news, but good new reporting, as its not trying to cloud the data with emigration, FAS courses and the like.
You can hardly argue with the fact there are more people in employment, hence more tax revenue for the government and hopefully less paying out on Dole cheques.
Drop the higher Vat rate to 20%. Scrap USC. Will create thousands of jobs in retail. Will kick start the local economy. Get Ireland moving again.
Fully agree. Now is the time to take chances while there are signs of a recovery to help boost that recovery.
Reduce VAT rate in construction/ building to 9%. 1 in 4 people on the dole are from the construction industry. A reductuon will help thousands get back to work.
unless the reductions are passed onto customers it will have no effect, it will just mean business making more profit
Its clear not all business passed on the last reduction in vat
Agree 100% but to drop VAT we must drop public spending. Income tax also needs to drop.
If they would only extract the CE, Jobsbridge, FAS courses, etc then we would havecactrue picture.
Having said that looking back over past weeks there does seem to be jobs (proper ones) coming up.
135,000 people are doing CE scheme, FAS courses and Jobsbridge.
Ok Lads lets deflect attention from this bloody referendubbbb
I concur with the comments about revealing the true figures. A lot of people I know that are long term unemployed have been pushed into education in September. While this is welcome, please give us a true unemployment figure. I reckon as many as 10,000 have been taken off job seekers and placed on education courses.
Ah a lovely bit of ambiguity to start the week off
34,000. How many full time jobs in that? How many off the dole. Emigration still soaring. Hardly positive when you look past the spin.
Why is IBEC called the employers group and not a union which they are?
Because that way they can espouse exploitation as ‘partners’ and not just as sh!thawks and vultures!!
Job bridge isn’t a job
That’s why they call it Job “Bridge” it’s a scheme for people to train and gain experience to later become employed. A lot of jobs today require that the applicant would have some experience working in that field, in some cases 2 years. It actually has been shown to be a success with over 60% of interns going on to find employment.
Richard looks like a simpleton.
Richard has a lovely smile, the dear boy!
Whew, the spin has me feeling dizzy.
That vat thing cost hundreds of millions in taxes each year , lets face it the low wage, part time seasonal jobs that where created where down to increased tourist numbers not a reduction in vat rate that was almost immediately pocketed by employers. Even noonan implied it wasn’t worth it(cost>benefit)
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