The Renwick Centre conducts research in areas relating to the education of children with sensory disabilities.
Current research projects include:
Factors affecting long-term outcomes for children with cochlear implants
Drs Dianne Toe and Rod Beattie
This research project was supported by a private donor to RIDBC, the late Mr Frank Buckle, AM. Data collection was completed in 2003.
Captions for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired: Availability versus accessibility
Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project—UWS Centre for Auditory Research and RIDBC
Professors Dennis Burnham (UWS) and Bill Noble (UNE), and Associate Professor Greg Leigh
Experiments on television captioning with adults and educational captioning with children are being used to determine how resources might best be directed to improving caption accessibility.
Braille Instructional CD ROM
Gayle Lamb, Dr Gillian Gale, and Julien Kennedy
A multimedia project addressing the area of braille proficiency for sighted individuals (educators/parents).
Reference Book for Itinerant Teachers of Vision Impaired
Drs Mike Steer and Gillian Gale
Graduate students and academic staff of The Renwick Centre are contributing
specific chapters to this book.
Carrie Smith Braille Music Research and Development Project
Dr Mike Steer, Dr Rod Beattie, Alan Baynham, and Nigel Herring
This project will develop the Toccata system to better meet the needs of blind musicians and music students by linking keyboard notation code to vocalization, and will conduct user-based research on braille versus speech for the development of a spoken-music methodology.
