Listening and hearing considerations may help students better understand speech more easily and may improve attention and comprehension.
Using a FM System involves speaking into a transmitter microphone, which sends a wireless FM signal that is broadcasted to the receiver. The signal is amplified and delivered directly to the listener by loud speaker(s) positioned around the room. As stand-alone hearing system it may help an individual to hear better anywhere that there is background noise, distance, and or echo that can interfere with understanding speech.
Individuals may reject using such a system because it makes them self-conscious and feel "different." A certified audiologist with expertise in FM system should work with a team, teacher, and the school's speech and language pathologist, to decide whether an assistive listening devise is necessary for a student to succeed.
Other tools for recording and playback may provide access to print materials such as books when auditory strengths are used. A variable speed tape recorder can especially helpful. Tape recording textbook chapters if the student has reading levels well below classroom peers, but he/she has no difficulty with content. Parents, volunteers, an older student or an efficient peer reader, can do tape recording. A tape recorder may be used for taking notes, recording lectures and assisting students to express themselves for writing activities.
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