Maximizing Outcomes for Children with Auditory Disorders: Auditory Brain Development - Listening for Learning

What is Hearing? Hearing is a first-order event for the development of spoken communication and literacy skills. Anytime the word hearing is used, we should think auditory brain development, because we hear with the brain. We may assume that people know that we hear with the brain, well just like we see with the brain. The eyes are the doorway to the brain for vision. The mouth is the doorway to the brain for taste. The nose is the doorway to the brain for smell. Those are all portals. Likewise, the ears are the portal to the brain for sound. A child's brain is born with about a billion neurons, but with experience and exposure, the brain will grow about a quadrillion auditory connections. In order for the brain to develop those connections, we have to feed the brain auditory information. Acoustic accessibility of intelligible speech is critical to grow accurate connections.

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