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December 13, 1999

Classroom Amplification Comes of Age

By Ellen M. Quinn, MS, CCC-A

“Most clinicians are familiar with the advantages of classroom amplification. Students learn by listening. This is a critical point when talking about children learning English as a second Language (ESL) and those with minimal hearing loss, central auditory processing disorders (CAPD), and other auditory-based learning difficulties.

In explaining the need for classroom amplification, Carol Flexer, PhD, CCC-A, of the University of Akron, noted, ‘Speech is audible if the person is able to dimply detect its presence. However, for speech to be intelligible, the child must be able to discriminate the word-sound distinctions of individual phonemes….’”

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