Dr. Donna Geffner
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303 appearances
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first heard Feb 2020
last heard Feb 2020
Dr. Donna Geffner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The brain is plastic.
It's plastic throughout life.
So we know that you can teach old dogs new tricks, but it's more plastic than its younger brain.
And the earlier we get to these options, the better the remediation, the faster, the quicker, and the more efficient.
So my...
Soapbox plea is for those teachers and preschool teachers and parents who see youngsters struggling with auditory information and taking in auditory information who need a lot of repetition, or youngsters who should be at least screened to see if they have any auditory processing problems, so we can do something about it.
Well, for one thing, we want them to be seated properly, away from doors and windows and noise machines.
One youngster I saw last week, they put him near the air conditioning unit, and he couldn't function in the classroom.
So we want to avoid that.
We want him to be away from noisy other children.
And, of course, the smaller size class is better.
We can't always...
achieve that in a public school system, but the smaller class, the closer the one-to-one ratio of a teacher to student is always preferred.
And if it can't be, we do have sound enhancement systems.
We do have fabulous FM systems that can accommodate these judges, because what that individual does is wear either a set of headphones or small little behind-the-ear aids that look like hearing aids, and they're little FM units, and the teacher wears a microphone, and they hear the teacher's voice as if the teacher's talking to him or to her directly.
It blocks out background noise.
It brings the signal in clearer.
And so the youngster now can hear clear speech.
There is no substitute for the need to hear clear speech.
It's as if the child who has a visual problem looks at the board and can't see the letters.
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