DCOPITHORNE, Author at Hearing Mojo Copy

Infants With Cochlear Implants Get More Language Sooner

May 11, 2005

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A recent research report published by a team at Indiana University provides more evidence that the younger a hearing-impaired child receives a cochlear implant, the quicker he or she is to acquire spoken language.

Turn Down The Volume On Your IPOD

May 10, 2005

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DCOPITHORNE

in Advocacy

The London Evening Standard this week published a warning issued by the Royal National Institute of the Deaf in the U.K. that London commuters are permanently deafening themselves by turning up the volumes on their IPODs to drown out the noise in the city’s underground subway system.

Cochlear Implants and Music

May 9, 2005

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DCOPITHORNE

in Cochlear Implants

When you get a cochlear implant, it restores much ability to discern sound, but comprehension is another matter — it takes time for the brain to “map” sounds to intelligible words, music, etc.

If You Ever Wondered Whether Early Screening Works….

May 8, 2005

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DCOPITHORNE

in Advocacy

The Early Hearing Detection and Intervention program (EHDI) has resulted in a dramatic increase in early diagnosis of newborns’ hearing loss. But funding for it is at risk.

ScanSoft: Will Speech Processing Go The Way Of The Kurzweil Reader?

May 8, 2005

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DCOPITHORNE

in Technology

I frequently entertain myself with a futuristic vision of high-tech eyeglasses equipped with a tiny microphone, a tiny speech processing chip, and a tiny holographic projector that can transcribe everyday conversation in real time and project it in front of my eyes like the closed-captioning system on my TV.

Go America is Going Places

May 7, 2005

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DCOPITHORNE

in ALDs

I’d heard of Go America in the go-go days of the dot-com boom, but back then it was just one of a million hot new suppliers of wireless data services for handheld computers. I never knew about its Wyndtell subsidiary, which focused exclusively on providing telecommunications services for deaf and hard-of-hearing people.