Auditory attention can be trained, particularly for learning information or understanding nuances in communication, and may be preferable for individuals with low or no vision.

“You may want to do that with your auditory system, not with your visual system, either because you're low vision or no vision, or because you're trying to learn something that relates more to sounds than to what you see. But for most people they're trying to learn information, cognitive information, or they're trying to learn how to hear the nuance in your partner's explanations of their emotionally challenging events, et cetera.”