Mild Hearing Loss Affects Kids' School Performance
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NEW YORK  - Children with hearing problems,  even minimal, are significantly more likely to have academic  problems, experts said Thursday.
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In a new study, scientists have found that the left and right ears process sound differently.
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Difficulty in school isnât always a sign of a learning disorder, it may just be a sign that a childâs eyes arenât working properly.
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Teenagers who smoke, or whose pregnant mother smoked, are at risk of hearing problems, a study claims.
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Five-year-old children who snore or have sleep apnea -- the more serious disorder in which breathing stops intermittently while they sleep-- score worse on tests of memory and intelligence than unaffected kids, investigators report.
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Aug. 16, 2004 -- For children with Asperger&#39;s Syndrome and other mild forms of autism, the world can be an uncomfortable place. These kids have a hard time picking up the social skills that come naturally to most people. They get teased at school, often ...
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Memo to: Frustrated parents From: Health section staff At this point your teens may insist that their distractions enhance their studying. According to Poldrack, results from the UCLA study give researchers a good idea that active tasks -- involving "doing" processes, like counting beeps or singing...
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Children&#39;s brains are hard-wired to learn languages and, in some cases, to improve upon them. That&#39;s the conclusion of a new study that followed several generations of
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Noisy toys could be doing more harm than simply driving haggard parents up the wall. A new study suggests they could also be damaging children&#39;s&#39; hearing.
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Certain treatments may affect  the scholastic achievement of childhood leukemia survivors,  Finnish researchers report in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.  However, many of these treated children do not appear to be  disadvantaged.
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MONDAY, Feb. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Antibiotics don't significantly reduce fluid buildup in young children with inner ear infections, a new analysis shows.
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Schools in England have been sent advice on how to teach children good spoken English.
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Vulnerable children subjected to 'inappropriate and invasive' tests, hearing told.
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Children with disorders in what is known as the autism spectrum tend to be less irritable and hyperactive after a period of high temperature, a new study suggests.
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Nine in 10 young people experience signs of hearing damage after a night out, research suggests.
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A coalition of hearing experts released a report Wednesday on tests they conducted on noisy toys. The study found 25 of 40 toys tested made enough racket to cause hearing damage if they were held up to the ears of small children.
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The report says students are catching up to their worldwide counterparts but fourth-graders are not. By Michael Dobbs / Washington Post.