This article discusses the AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language--an organization designed to build capacity of certified Listening and Spoken Language Specialists (LSLS) by defining and maintaining a set of professional standards for LSLS professionals and thereby addressing the global deficit of qualified LSLS. Definitions and…

The authors surveyed 64 Listening and Spoken Language Specialist Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapists (LSLS Cert. AVTs) who mentor professionals seeking certification. Mentors answered questions regarding demographic characteristics, the organization and delivery of mentoring practice, and challenges and solutions faced by mentors. This group of…

The study investigated the effects of auditory training within a musical context on 12 severely to profoundly hearing-impaired preschoolers' use of residual hearing. A significant improvement was found in the children's ability to discriminate and recognize auditory stimuli. However, the lowest level in the hierarchy of auditory perception,…

Seven hearing impaired children (five to seven years old) assigned to the Speakers group made highly significant gains in speech production and auditory discrimination of speech, while Listeners made only slight speech production gains and no gains in auditory discrimination. Combined speech and auditory training was more effective than auditory…

Described is a eurhythmics program for hearing impaired primary, preteen and adolescent children using both structured and informal approaches. (DB)

A hearing impaired person describes ways in which listening to literature on tape while reading can help develop speech, increase auditory training, improve vocabulary and pronunciation, and lead to better understanding of contextual clues. (CL)

The development of listening skills in deaf children requires emphasis during the child's entire waking day, selection of an appropriate hearing aid, educational intervention, and sequentially organized teaching-learning experiences. (Author/LS)

Noted are six techniques used in an infant program to aid communication between oral deaf parents and their deaf infants. (LS)

Described is a program of hearing therapy for children whose hearing losses are detected in infancy. Residual hearing is utilized and speech is taught through the auditory sense. (KW)

A case study is presented of a 12-year-old child with a congenital profound bilateral sensori-neural hearing loss, who received rehabilitative audio-therapy according to the verbotonal method. (Author/LS)

A parent's group has been developed in conjunction with a clinic which uses the acoupedic approach of auditory language training for children from birth to school age with severe or profound hearing losses. (DB)

The article is the fourth in a series based on Parent Teacher Conferences held between 1966 and 1969 in the Lower Department of Junior High School number 47, New York City's Public School for the Deaf. (Author)

Sixteen children with moderate to profound sensorineural hearing loss were trained on the production and auditory perception of sibilants over two 2-week periods. Perception performance improved significantly during training periods with a small amount of carryover to non-training contrast periods. Improvements in production performance occurred…