Hours of small-group instruction lead to the kind of background noise that interferes with learning. It’s hard to concentrate when there’s lots of talking in the background. That’s a problem for ...

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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 ...

The Acoustical Society of America has issued a policy statement that advises schools not to use sound-amplification systems in their efforts to overcome noisy conditions in classrooms. The Acoustical ...

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Have any studies been done about the young men who choose to drive “souped up,” noisy cars to determine if there is a correlation of them to the boys in school who cannot seem to function in a regular ...

Children with hearing loss struggle to hear in noisy school classrooms, even with the help of hearing aids and other devices to amplify their teacher's voice. Training the brain to filter out ...