Six-year-old Caroline Krinov interacts with the cicada sound machine that teacher Adam Gerhardstein built. How do you get kids to engage in the classroom? One way is to build an interactive cicada ...

Children’s screen time is a growing concern for parents, as kids spend more time each day staring at phones, tablets, computers and TVs. Audio is one alternative, but it’s usually tied to screens as ...

Phones today beep and buzz. MP3s don't scratch. Noises that were once familiar, such as the clacking of manual typewriter keys or the ding of the gas station driveway bell, have all but vanished. Kara ...

The formerly familiar swooosh as the caller rotated the dial clockwise to the "finger stop" and then the click-click-click as the dial returned counter-clockwise to the start position is now a novelty ...

In the wise words of Jane Austen, “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book.” Whether you have a newborn, toddlers or older kids, ...

A mother raising a deaf son paradoxically lives in a house full of noise. But she learns from him how to unplug and disconnect. By Jill Waldbieser In my house, mornings begin with a bang. Usually, ...

For some musicals, the skill set goes beyond singing, dancing and acting. In "The Sound of Music," for instance, Maria has to belt a song while also working with a cast of child actors. Take Taylor ...