Classroom acoustics: Listening problems in children

A Screening Approach for Classroom Acoustics Using Web-Based Listening Tests and Subjective Ratings

BACKGROUND Perception of speech is crucial in school where speech is the main mode of communication. The aim of the study was to evaluate whether a web based approach including listening tests and questionnaires could be used as a screening tool for poor classroom acoustics. The prime focus was the relation between pupils' comprehension of speech, the classroom acoustics and their description o...

Listening to Distances and Hearing Shapes: Inverse Problems in Room Acoustics and Beyond

A central theme of this thesis is using echoes to achieve useful, interesting, and sometimes surprising results. One should have no doubts about the echoes’ constructive potential; it is demonstrated masterfully by Nature. Just think about the bat’s intriguing ability to navigate in unknown spaces and hunt for insects by listening to echoes of its calls, or about similar (albeit less well-known...

Use of auditory learning to manage listening problems in children

This paper reviews recent studies that have used adaptive auditory training to address communication problems experienced by some children in their everyday life. It considers the auditory contribution to developmental listening and language problems and the underlying principles of auditory learning that may drive further refinement of auditory learning applications. Following strong claims th...

CLASSROOM ACOUSTICS A New Zealand Perspective

Speech Perception in Classroom Acoustics by Children With Cochlear Implants and With Typical Hearing.

PURPOSE This study measured speech perception ability in children with cochlear implants and children with typical hearing when listening across ranges of reverberation times (RTs) and speech-to-noise ratios. METHOD Participants listened in classroom RTs of 0.3, 0.6, and 0.9 s combined with a 21-dB range of speech-to-noise ratios. Subsets also listened in a low-reverberant audiological sound ...