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Why Do Students With Hearing Impairment Resist Wearing Fm Amplification?, Jennifer Lynn Franks
Why Do Students With Hearing Impairment Resist Wearing Fm Amplification?, Jennifer Lynn Franks
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The benefits of Frequency Modulation (FM) amplification usage among school-aged children is widely researched and established. The benefits provided from FM systems for students with a hearing impairment (HI) would suggest that consistent usage among these students would be high. However, interactions with various-aged HI students and their teachers have shown the opposite: there appears to be a lack of consistent usage. Previous research has looked at what influences people with a hearing loss not to wear their hearing aids. Research investigating reasons why FM systems are not used is limited. There are well-known benefits of FM usage among those …