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An unidentified minimal hearing loss is a significant factor in the
psychosocial and educational progress of young children, according to
multiple research studies conducted over the past 20 years at
Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Researchers will present
their findings during the American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association’s (ASHA) annual convention at the Pennsylvania Convention
Center, November 18-20.
"The study revealed that children with a minimal hearing loss clearly
expended more effort in listening htan children with normal hearing,"
said Anne Marie Tharpe, an assistant professor in the Department of
Hearing and Speech Sciences and a Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for
Resesarch on Human Development investigator. "These findings suggest
that class work
may suffer if a child wiht hearing loss is expending extra mental or
cognitive effort to listen to the teacher, take notes and process what
is being heard at the same time."
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