Participants should be between the ages of 5 and 15 and have normal hearing and language development. Compensation will be given for completed participation in the study. The Center is studying the areas of the brain that are activated by sound and the sequence in which they are activated. The goal of the research is to develop tests that will identify, and possibly treat, children with problems in sound processing and learning disabilities.
Hearing involves a set of intricate brain processes.
Research suggests that children do not process sounds in the same manner as an adults. Gould said good hearing is critical for children to learn. When we learn to read we associate the sounds we have heard with the graphic symbols on the page. The University of Memphis. Site maintained by Web Services .