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.

Hours of small-group instruction lead to the kind of background noise that interferes with learning. It’s hard to concentrate when there’s lots of talking in the background. That’s a problem for ...

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 ...

The Acoustical Society of America has issued a policy statement that advises schools not to use sound-amplification systems in their efforts to overcome noisy conditions in classrooms. The Acoustical ...

The U.S.-based Acoustical Society of America is advising schools not to use sound-amplification systems to overcome noisy classroom conditions. Researchers at the Melville, N.Y.-based, ASA acknowledge ...

How well we pay attention while learning is influenced not only by external distractions like background noise but also by internal factors such as how interesting we find the material, according to a ...

(Medical Xpress) -- A new study presented at the 162nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America shows that students testing scores are negatively affected by background noise, but not the noise ...

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MILLBURN, N.J. Rene Slater used to give herself laryngitis trying to talk over the incessant hum of the ventilation unit in her classroom here at Wyoming Elementary School, and her second-grade ...

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 ...