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An Evaluation of Frequency Transposition for Hearing-Impaired School-Age Children
Jenny Smith; Marilyn Dann; P Margaret Brown
Deafness and Education International Vol. 11, No. 2 (June 2009) pp. 62–82
A key objective when fitting hearing aids to children is to maximize the audibility of high frequency speech cues which are critical in the understanding of spoken English. Recent advances in digital signal processing have enabled the development of ...
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Gathering the Views of Children and Young People to Inform Practice in a Psychological Service
Shona Alexander; Neil Brown; Kait Farmer; Jenny Fraser-Smith; Kirstie McClatchey; Vibeke McKeown; Ali Sangster; Isabel Shaver; Jenny Templeton
Support for Learning Vol. 29, No. 4 (November 2015) pp. 359–369
This paper describes the process employed by a psychological service to gather the views of children and young people using guided discussion groups and questionnaires. Pupils in the guided discussion groups were asked to identify issues that affect ...
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Towards Universal Access to Web-based Learning
Jenny Jerrams-Smith; David Heathcote; Feliz Ribeiro Gouveia; David Ribeiro Lamas
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 822–823
Universal access to the Web as a learning resource may be facilitated by the use of an adaptive Web based learner support system. This paper describes how modifications to the CAIN system can achieve this aim by matching the cognitive load imposed ...
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Training a Parent in Wheelchair Skills to Improve Her Child's Wheelchair Skills: A Case Study
R Lee Kirby; Cher Smith; Jessica L. Billard; Jenny D. H. Irving; Janice E. Pitts; Rebecca S. White
Annual Conference of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) 2010 (June 2010)
We tested the hypothesis that training a parent in wheelchair-user and caregiver wheelchair skills would improve the child's wheelchair skills. We studied an 11-year-old girl with spina bifida and her mother. The mother received 4 training sessions...
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The Development of Virtual World Tools to Enhance Learning and Real World Decision Making in the Australian Sugar Farming Industry
Neil Cliffe; Joanne Doyle; Helen Farley; Janette Lindesay; Adam Loch; Tek Maraseni; Torben Marcussen; Neil Martin; Shahbaz Mushtaq; Jenny Ostini; Kate Reardon-Smith; Roger Stone
International Journal of Advanced Corporate Learning (iJAC) Vol. 7, No. 3 (Oct 13, 2014) pp. 17–23
In farming, the outcome of critical decisions to enhance productivity and profitability and so ensure the viability of farming enterprises is often influenced by seasonal conditions and weather events over the growing season. This paper reports on a ...
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Australian higher education institutions transforming the future of teaching and learning through 3D virtual worlds
Sue Gregory; Brent Gregory; Matthew Campbell; Helen Farley; Suku Sinnappan; Shannon Kennedy-CLark; David Craven; Deborah Murdoch; Denise Wood; Jenny Grenfell; Angela Thomas; Carol Matthews; Kerrie Smith; Ian Warren; Heinz Dreher; Lindy McKeown; Allan Ellis ; Mathew Hillier; Steven Pace; Andrew Cram; Lyn Hay Charles; Scott Grant; Mark J.W. Lee
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2010 (2010) pp. 399–415
What are educators' motivations for using virtual worlds with their students? Are they using them to support the teaching of professions and if this is the case, do they introduce virtual worlds into the curriculum to develop and/or expand students' ...