State of the Art Infrared Sound System

Stanwood School Districe has one state-of-the-art, infrared sound system. The teachers voice is transmitted from a necklace microphone and bathes the classroom in the teacher's voice. Now, every seat is a front-row seat. How well children hear a teacher affects how well they learn. The more they can hear, and the less they have to strain and guess, the better chance they will have of learning their lessons. The hearing "boost" offered by these systems seems to be most advantageous for children with mild hearing losses, but has also been shown to help children with special auditory needs (e.g. children with central auditory processing problems, attention deficit and learning disorders, and second language learners). Basically, what they do is take some of the auditory strain out of the auditory learning process. It makes an amazing difference. Even kids with normal hearing can miss as much as a third of what teachers say. Dave Lipscomb recommended we purchase a one of these systems for our club. Debbie's talk was excellent. It was recommended that our club assist financially to help provide the Stanwood Schood District with another classroom sound system