The New Zealand Ministry of Health has found from research carried out over two decades that 6-10% of children in that country are affected by hearing loss. BA preliminary study in New Zealand has shown that c
An unidentified mild to moderate hearing loss usually leads to persistent negative social interactions. It also disrupts classroom learning that relies primarily on 'teacher talk'. Growing up in crowded noisy houses, both spreads ear infections as well as exacerbating the impact of hearing loss by ...
DWhile the detrimental effects of noise in classroom situations are not limited to children experiencing disability, those with a disability that affects their processing of speech and verbal communication could be extremely vulnerable.The auditory function deficits in question include hearing impairment, ...
This qualitative study on the classroom communication experiences of adolescents with hearing loss during COVID-19 utilized semi-structured individual interviews. Eligible adolescents were those between the ages of 12 and 17, attended school in-person during the COVID-19 pandemic, and were from 4 gr...
In the case of students with hearing loss, it all begins with estimating the level of access the student has to communication in the classroom. The teacher of the deaf/hard of hearing needs to be armed with observations and functional data (i.e., Functional Listening Evaluation, PARC, LIFE...
The Characterisation of Activity component consists of the three main activities in the classroom–lecture, group work, and independent work. Each of these activities have their own perceptual settings. These include sound levels (e.g., the level of the speaker’s voice), signal-to-noise ratios...
For many kids in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community, their families and educators, the pandemic brought a new set of challenges — many centered around access.
The impact of the pandemic on these outcomes is, thus, deeply permeated by social determinants at play, which in turn delineates the unique cluster of social and biologi- cal factors interacting and jointly producing the impacts on health status and caregiving practices, captured by this review ...
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Application-based learning was more effective than digital books in terms of grammar comprehension and was significantly better for satisfaction and persistence. The results suggested the use of specific criteria for selecting multimedia learning materials, including a high degree of learner control, ...