What Children Hear in the Classroom ASHA Voices

Discerning speech in a noisy environment requires practice, and it can take years for children to hone their ability to maximize their auditory system.Award-winning researcher Lauren Calandruccio joins the podcast to discuss auditory perception in noisy environments, like the classroom. She tells us about the experiments she conducted into how children perceive sound, and we hear the surprising turn her research took.Plus, Lauren shares what she’s doing at Case Western Reserve University to facilitate communication in her university classroom during the pandemic.