Classroom Acoustics for Children With Normal Hearing and With Hearing Impairment

Classroom Acoustics for Children With Normal Hearing and With Hearing Impairment

This article examines several acoustical variables, such as noise, reverberation, and speaker-listener distance, which can deleteriously affect speech perception in classrooms. The effects of these variables on speech perception abilities in children with and without hearing loss are explored and ap...

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Veröffentlicht in:Language, speech & hearing services in schools speech & hearing services in schools, 2000-10, Vol.31 (4), p.362-370
Hauptverfasser: Crandell, Carl C, Smaldino, Joseph J
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Acoustical Environment
Acoustics
Audiology
Auditory Perception
Children
Children & youth
Classroom Environment
Classrooms
Construction
Deafness
Elementary Secondary Education
Environmental Influences
Handbooks
Hearing
Hearing aids
Hearing Impairments
Hearing loss
Learning
Listening Comprehension
Noise (Sound)
Receptive Language
Speech
Teachers
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Zusammenfassung:This article examines several acoustical variables, such as noise, reverberation, and speaker-listener distance, which can deleteriously affect speech perception in classrooms. The effects of these variables on speech perception abilities in children with and without hearing loss are explored and appropriate classroom acoustical criteria are suggested. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)
ISSN:0161-1461
1558-9129
DOI:10.1044/0161-1461.3104.362