Researchers at the National Acoustic Laboratories (NAL) have found a treatment for a hearing problem affecting about 18,000 children that can be installed on a home computer.
The condition, Spatial Processing Disorder (SPD), makes it diffi
cult for children to understand what people say when there is background noise – for example in the classroom.The cause is unknown, but it is common in children who had middle ear infections when they were younger, and its impact on learning can be profound. http://ow.ly/emzRl