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
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. The effect was still evident when
the children were tested three months after the training ended.
The findings are among the first to demonstrate that auditory
training with noise can work in children.
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