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Hearing in the Classroom
Conclusion
Emerging results from investigation into how children listen and learn in multisource environments provide strong evi- dence that children do not belong at cocktail parties. Despite the more obvious reasons, children lack the extensive lin- guistic knowledge and the perceptual and cognitive abilities that help adults reconstruct the auditory scene.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the Grants R01-DC-011038 and R01-DC-014460 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health.
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