How Environmental Sound Impacts Speech Development
If you are heading into Manhattan, off the George Washington Bridge, you can't miss the Bridge Apartments, a cluster of four 32-story apartment buildings built right over the interstate. The buildings' 4,000 residents seem like nothing compared to the 300,000 cars that go whizzing underneath the buildings each day.
Built in 1964, the Apartments were to be a shining (aluminum-sided) monument to efforts in easing New York's chronic housing shortage. But almost immediately, people worried that the exhaust from the traffic might be a health hazard to the residents….
