A classroom audio brought in for a hearing-impaired student engages the entire class EXPERIMENTING WITH CLASSROOM AUDIO TECHNOL0GY When a hearing-impaired student was transferred into Jennifer Miller’s* class last year, a new piece of technology was transferred as well. “This student had an FM system, but the district wanted to do a trial with Lightspeed’s Redcat,” said Miller, a teacher in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The Redcat was one of only a handful in Bartlesville Public Schools, and Miller was eager to see if it could help her new student. “Taylor* had actually been bullied at another elementary school for being hearing- impaired and came to our school for a fresh start. We were hoping the Redcat would help Taylor feel less singled out and wanted to see how it would impact the

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