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Hearing matters: What stops children hearing well in the classroom?

Hearing matters: What stops children hearing well in the classroom?. Harvey Dillon National Acoustic Laboratories. What can go wrong?. Permanent hearing loss Middle ear infections Auditory processing disorder Specific language impairment English as a second language

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Hearing matters: What stops children hearing well in the classroom?

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  1. Hearing matters: What stops children hearing well in the classroom? Harvey Dillon National Acoustic Laboratories

  2. What can go wrong? • Permanent hearing loss • Middle ear infections • Auditory processing disorder • Specific language impairment • English as a second language • Attention deficit disorder • Poor classroom acoustics

  3. Permanent hearing loss • 1 in a 1000 births • 3 more in a 1000 by 6th class

  4. Middle ear disorders

  5. Auditory processing disorders

  6. Auditory processing disorders Spatial Processing Disorder

  7. Auditory processing disorders Spatial Processing Disorder LiSN & Learn

  8. Specific language impairment

  9. Attention deficit disorder Don’t pay attention Understanding is difficult Attention deficit disorder Don’t pay attention Auditory processing deficit

  10. Poor classroom acoustics • Noise from outside school • Noise from other classes • Noise from inside class • Reverberation • Open plan! KiriMealings

  11. Problems in combination Aboriginal children all too often have – • Middle ear infection  “temporary” hearing loss • Spatial processing disorder • Learning in a second language • Noisy classroom

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