Mild Hearing Loss Affects Kids' School Performance
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Children with hearing problems, even minimal, are significantly more likely to have academic problems, experts said Thursday.
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With the start of the school year, parents need to take steps to protect their children from allergy and asthma triggers they may encounter at school.
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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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NEW YORK  - More than three-quarters of  children who were born before the 26th week of pregnancy are  affected by cognitive and neurologic impairments by the time  they reach school age, British researchers report.
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Black adults hear better than white adults, a government study found. The study also found that women hear better than men, and that overall, hearing in the United States is about the same as it was 35 years ago, despite the advent of ear-blasting devices such as the Walkman and the iPod.
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Elementary and middle-school students are making significant improvements in math skills, while their gains in reading are more modest, according to national test results.
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Finding the right words for tricky conversations with children.
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Vulnerable children subjected to 'inappropriate and invasive' tests, hearing told.
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NEW YORK  - Children with signs of autism  are more likely to be diagnosed with the disorder in wealthier  school districts, results of a new study show.
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Parents who spend time and money to   teach their children music, take heart -- a new Canadian study   shows young children who take music lessons have better   memories than their nonmusical peers.
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Children on the Playing for Success sports venue learning scheme show mixed long-term results, a study says.
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NEW YORK  - School programs intended to improve autistic children's social skills are not delivering results in many cases, a new study suggests.
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Music therapy is helping children with disabilities focus and develop skills.
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Education experts say children should be allowed to talk more in class.
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NEW YORK  - Music lessons may give a boost  to the IQ scores of children, even if they're less than musical  prodigies, new research suggests.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Black children living in disadvantaged neighborhoods fall behind the equivalent of one year or more of schooling simply because of where they live.
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Black children are less likely to get  enough sleep than their white counterparts, which makes them  susceptible to poorer school performance and behavioral  problems, a study said on Monday.