On Deaf Ears

This episode of On Deaf Ears welcomes Amy Hampson, Research Coordinator in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Melbourne to share her findings on speech perception in open plan classrooms for children who deaf and hard-of-hearing. She conducted tests to see how noise affects regular and hard-of-hearing students in this setup. Amy also explores the current education system and its implications on this niche group of learners. ----------------------------------------------------------- HIGHLIGHTS 02:36 What is an open plan classroom and what are their advantages? 09:10 Breakdown of the MDDB Classroom Speech Perception Task experiment 10:59 What were the findings? 16:33 How the findings affect the design of open plan classrooms 20:44 Ideas for hard of hearing students in an open plan classroom ----------------------------------------------------------- REFERENCES MDDB Classroom Speech Perception Task - A speech perception test developed by Dr. Kiri Mealings at the National Acoustic L