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- Overcoming disability as a barrier to college education
- Irish Sign Language in schools for deaf children
- Connected: How a Cochlear Implant Made Me More Deaf
- When signing is singing
- Classic cars and the NCT
- IT conversion courses – not all employers are converts
- Open Days: smoothing the way to third level
- Live captioning phone app on the way
Category Archives: Writings
Price comparison websites
Do you use any of them or do you compare prices yourself? In the Irish Independent today.
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Scrappage or bangernomics?
There are a lot of good deals on the scrappage scheme, but I’m definitely more of a bangernomics advocate.
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Web of offers: social media revamps concept of vouchers for online shopping
In the Irish Independent.
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Future of journalism – it’s not just about the business model
Just read the transcript of this lecture given last week by the editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, about the future of journalism. It’s quite long, but hugely interesting for all the examples he gives of how journalism can become even better in the digital world, but not in the ways you might expect. In […]
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The Seafarer – a captioned performance
Looking forward to the next of my occasional visits to the theatre, when we’ll be attending the captioned performance of Conor McPherson’s ‘The Seafarer’ at the Abbey on Jan 30th. If it were not for the fact that the Abbey facilitates captioned performances, (thanks to the good work of AdiArts), I simply wouldn’t be able […]
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Tinnitus awareness week coming up
Someone was asking me about tinnitus today and I had forgotten about this article I wrote last year for the Irish Times. Might be useful for those not familiar with it. Tinnitus awareness week, which is being organised by the Irish Tinnitus Association, is running from Feb 8th to 14th.
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Machine vs human translation