The Listening Project Film
I have been fortunate in my chosen profession. I got into it a bit by accident but I have loved absolutely every minute of it. How many people can find something that they enjoy doing, and in which that can effect significant change. I was lucky, I found just such a profession. For over 50…
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What Does Intelligible Speech Look Like?
Malcolm Gladwell reports that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to learn something new. Hart and Risley report that typical children hear about 46 million words by age 4. Dehaene reports that a child needs 20,000 hours of listening as a basis for reading. Pittman reports that children with hearing loss require three times the…
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