What is Environment Adjustment?

• A. Modifying surroundings to enhance hearing.
• B. Device used to improve sound perception.
• C. Highest number of words recalled correctly.
• D. Sequence of recalled words does not matter.

Answer: (A)

Environment adjustment means altering the surroundings to improve hearing. This includes reducing background noise, improving lighting so the speaker’s face is visible, arranging seating so the listener faces the speaker, and choosing a quiet, distraction-free space for conversations. These changes help the person with hearing difficulty better receive and understand speech without needing new devices.

The other ideas describe things that aren’t about changing the environment: a device used to improve sound perception refers to a hearing aid or similar tool, which is a device rather than a modification of the surroundings; and the remaining options refer to memory performance or recall order, not how the environment supports hearing.