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Watkins, Ruth V. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1990
The article reviews studies on the assessment of rapid auditory processing abilities. Issues in auditory processing research are identified including a link between otitis media with effusion and language learning problems. A theory that linguistically impaired children experience difficulty in perceiving and processing low phonetic substance…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Child Development, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps
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Marks, Lawrence E.; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1987
A series of three experiments was conducted to assess the comprehension of four types of cross-modal (synesthetic) similarities in children and adults. Both perceptual and verbal (metaphoric) modes were tested. (PCB)
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Perception, Child Development, Children
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Eisenberg, Laurie S.; Dirks, Donald D. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1995
Eighty normally hearing children (ages 4 to 8) judged the clarity of sentences that were systematically bandpass-filtered to increase intelligibility. Study of 10 subjects at each age found that children 5 years or older were able to make reliable clarity judgements using paired comparisons or category rating; however, the method of paired…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Child Development
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Montgomery, James W. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1999
This study compared the lexical mapping (acoustic-phonetic analysis) stage of auditory word recognition in 21 children (mean age 8 years 9 months) with specific language impairments (SLI) with children matched for either chronological age or vocabulary. The SLI children performed comparably to control groups on all dependent measures related to…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Child Development, Children, Language Acquisition