{"id":208463,"date":"2022-01-31T21:21:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T21:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/masks-and-other-pandemic-measures-are-necessary-at-school-but-can-make-it-harder-to-hear-in-classrooms"},"modified":"2022-01-31T21:21:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T21:21:22","slug":"masks-and-other-pandemic-measures-are-necessary-at-school-but-can-make-it-harder-to-hear-in-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/masks-and-other-pandemic-measures-are-necessary-at-school-but-can-make-it-harder-to-hear-in-classrooms","title":{"rendered":"Masks and other pandemic measures are necessary at school, but can make it harder to hear in classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Classroom noise and students&#8217; inability to hear can be a barrier to teaching and learing. (Shutterstock) Masks, social distancing and increased ventilation are all necessary pandemic measures in classrooms, but they can make for a difficult listening and hearing environment for students and teachers. While this is true for students with hearing loss , the capacity for COVID-19 measures to affect all students&#8217; ability to hear clearly should also be considered. Before COVID-19, classrooms already represented less-than-optimal-acoustic environments . It&#8217;s also true that young children , children who are learning a new language , children with language difficulties and children with recurrent ear infections have particular difficulty understanding speech in noisy situations. The Elementary Teachers&#8217; Federation of Ontario recognizes classroom noise as a barrier to teaching and learning. COVID-19 measures potentially degrade the listening situation further because of masks, which remove visual cues for speech-reading and muffle the speaker&#8217;s voice , social distancing, plexiglass barriers or ventilation systems, which can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masks, social distancing and increased ventilation are all necessary pandemic measures in classrooms, but they can make for a difficult listening and hearing environment for students and teachers. While this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,1],"tags":[62,96,59,60],"class_list":["post-208463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-education","tag-health","tag-public-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}