What's on the horizon for children who have hearing loss?

At our lab at Washington University in St. Louis, we are developing computer games that provide auditory brain training and lipreading lessons to children who have hearing loss.  The key features of the games are:
1) They teach children to better recognize speech, especially in the presence of background noise, as in a noisy classroom.
2) They teach children to lipread their teachers for an upcoming school year so children are more confident and competent on that first day of school and the following first few weeks.
3) They're fun to play!  A key component of making training effective is that training must be engaging and entertaining.  A bored child doesn't learn.

The games will soon be available through the clEAR website.  To view a short news video about the research, please visit: News video about clEAR training games for children with hearing loss

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