Further benefits have also been documented, with parents in some studies frequently reporting superior performance using bilateral CIs in everyday life, in situations such as group conversations, background noise, and hearing at a distance (Sparreboom et al. 2012; Galvin et al. in press).
A tendency to fidget and to be easily distracted, poor concentration and poor academic achievement are characteristics of children both with the primary headache and with the auditory processing disorders, like difficulty in understanding conversation amid background noise [5 7].
Upon arrival at McGee's, I asked the hostess if it would be possible to get a private table in the upstairs portion of the establishment -– more so that I could record the conversation without background noise than anything else.
Has difficulty following a conversation against background noise.
At 2 months after transplantation, nine patients (four patients with cisplatin pretreatment) still had symptomatic high-frequency hearing loss and problems with conversation and background noise, eight patients (five patients with cisplatin pretreatment) had intermittent tinnitus and one patient in the breast cancer group still had continuous tinnitus.
Forcing the narrative on means tapping the screen through unnecessarily lengthy conversations; the background music descends rapidly from "sinisterly scene setting" to "I'm going to kill an accordionist"; and the puzzles themselves range from the challenging and well-produced to hanging on the most miniscule of details that you can barely see on the tiny screen.
Altman allows Beatty to be absorbed in the crowd, the smoke, and the general background conversation.
It works well even when Echo is playing loud music or there is other background conversation and noise.
It's kind of maddening, so to have a kind of low conversation in the background allows me to drift off peacefully.
The murmur of conversation filled the background at Mike's Diner in Astoria, Queens, as the boy, Solomon Fisher, sat across from his Big Brother, Joel Sanchez.
Wary of public attention, he has insisted through the protective Pentagon press apparatus that our conversation be on background; only later will he agree to let me quote him.
