Noisy classroom simulation aids comprehension in hearing-impaired children
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 04:30
in Health & Medicine
Training the brain to filter out background noise and thus understand spoken words could help the academic performance and quality of life for children who struggle to hear, but there's been little evidence that such noise training works in youngsters. A new report showed about a 50 percent increase in speech comprehension in background noise when children with hearing impairments followed a three-week auditory training regimen.