Classroom Amplification to Enhance Student Performance

auditory system. Classroom instruction is presented primarily through the teacher’s speech, or through video or tape recordings. Many students are auditory learners: They learn best when information is presented to them verbally. Students with hearing loss or other learning disabilities, however, may have difficulty with comprehension of auditory information (Beattie & Zipp, 1990; Woglemuth, Kamhi, & Lee, 1998; see box, “What Does the Literature Say?”).