{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Noisy Spaces & Your Deaf Child","description":"Quiet spaces provide the deaf or hard of hearing child with the clearest listening opportunities. These are moments where the speech signal is received without competing noise.\n\nThis nineteenth episode, draws on Shefali Shah’s in-person practice and follows through on a father’s insight, that: “In order for a child to talk clearly, she must hear clearly.”\n\nHowever, life is noisy. School settings, playgrounds, birthday parties, and restaurants are filled with competing sounds. Background noise masks the clarity of speech, making it harder for a deaf or hard of hearing child to listen, pay attention, imitate, understand and respond appropriately. Listening in noise is not only harder, it is more tiring. This “auditory fatigue” can drain a child’s focus and energy long before the day is over.\n\nShefali recommends asking your child’s audiologist for strategies to make classrooms acoustically supportive and how the hearing technology on your child’s devices can support her at school. She further recommends choosing school placement carefully as smaller, more acoustically friendly classrooms and accessories such as remote microphone systems can support your deaf child. She also shows how Auditory-Verbal Therapy prepares children for real-world noise, training their listening skills so they can thrive in the hustle and bustle of everyday life.\n\nNoise may compete for attention, but with the right support and practice, your deaf or hard of hearing child can learn to cope so that she enjoys life!\n\nThis is The Sound Steps Podcast.\n\n🎧 Top Tips from Episode 19\n\nListening in quiet provides the best listening opportunities. Quiet spaces make it possible for the child to receive a clear speech signal.\nNoise is an interference. Noise compromises the reception of a clear speech signal.\nAuditory fatigue. Listening for prolonged periods is tiring. Listening in noise can get exhausting.\nSchool settings, playgrounds, birthday parties and restaurants are noisy spaces.\nChoose school placement carefully: Smaller class size with fewer children provide more supportive listening and learning environments.\nPractice listening in noise: This sets the child up for success at school.\nAcoustic treatment at school and the use of accessories. Consult your audiologist for recommendations on how the hearing technology on your child’s devices can support her at school.\n\nTime Stamps:\n\n00:00:00 Introduction\n00:01:33 90% of deaf children are born to hearing parents\n00:01:42 Choosing Auditory-Verbal Therapy for your deaf or hard of hearing child\n00:02:15 AVT facilitates age-appropriate development\n00:02:44 Abundant choices open up through AVT\n00:03:11 Early identification and the fitting of early and optimal amplification.\n00:03:17 A life free of limitations\n00:03:30 Show notes, Top tips and Time Stamps\n00:03:38 Links and contact details\n00:03:43 Resources\n00:03:52 Listening in quiet\n00:04:38 Listening in noise\n00:04:49 Listening in noise gets tiring\n00:05:14 School settings and playgrounds are noisy\n00:07:49 Noise detracts from the clarity of the speech signal\n00:08:09 Choosing school placement\n00:08:40 Participating in games on the playground\n00:09:01 Explaining the rules of games\n00:10:04 Practice listening in noise\n00:11:14 Acoustic treatment at school\n00:11:42 Accessories on hearing devices and setting up FM systems at school\n00:12:56 Reflection\n00:13:34 Our next episode: Passive Listening or Overhearing\n\nResources:\n\n💬 Submit your question to the show: https://www.soundsteps.uk/podcast-ask-question/\n👩‍⚕️ Face-to-face AVT with Shefali Shah (London): https://soundsteps.uk\n🌐 Online AVT sessions available via AVT Direct: https://avtdirect.com\n🎓 Train online as an LSL professional in AVT: https://learnavt.com\n📧 Contact Shefali directly: shefalishah@soundsteps.uk (mailto:shefalishah@soundsteps.uk)\n\nResources:\n\n1. Listening in Noise & Auditory Fatigue\n\nNelson, P. B., & Soli, S. D. (2000). Acoustical Barriesrs to Learning: Children at Risk in Every Classroom. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 31(4), 356–361.\n\n2.FM Systems and Classroom Acoustics\n\nAmerican Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Classroom Acoustics: Recommended Standards.                                                              https://www.asha.org/Practice-Portal/Professional-Issues/Classroom-Acoustics/ https://www.asha.org\nFlexer, C. (2004). The Importance of Sound for Developing Spoken Language. Seminars in Hearing, 25(2):131-140\nCrandell, C. C., & Smaldino, J. J. (2000). Classroom acoustics for children with normal hearing and with hearing impairment. 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