Students develop the foundation for lifelong reading skills in early elementary school, and a new neuroscience study suggests they may be particularly hindered in that learning by background noise.

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 ...

A child's brain has to work overtime in a noisy classroom to do its typical but very important job of distinguishing sounds whose subtle differences are key to success with language and reading. But, ...

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If you have a cell phone, a television or even a fitness device, you’ve probably benefitted from Bluetooth technology. Now, Bluetooth-type technology is stepping into the classroom to create a ...

Melville, NY -The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) has issued a policy statement entitled "Acoustical Society of America Position on the Use of Sound Amplification in the Classroom." The statement ...

Sometimes science comes up with associations that initially sound surprising, but which make more sense the more you think ...

A noisy classroom can be a bad learning environment. Source: Adityamanutd CC0 via Wikimedia Commons There are lots of noisy environments in life in which we are expected to learn. Classrooms filled ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A quiet, unsmiling little girl with big brown eyes crawls inside a carpeted cubicle, hugs a stuffed teddy bear tight, and turns her head away from the noisy classroom. The safe ...

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 ...

Ernest R. Geddes Elementary School is a noisy place. Students in older grades spend large amounts of class time talking and arguing with one another in small groups. One third-grade teacher, Pamela ...