Explored was the relation between language and/or verbal ability and reduced auditory acuity at discrete frequencies and various frequency bands in children with high frequency impairment. (Author)

A program for teaching reading to first grade children is described. (CK)

Pure-tone audiometry performed monthly on nine preschool cleft palate children showed the incidence of hearing loss ranging from 25 to 71 percent from month to month, with all children experiencing a significant hearing loss at some time. (Author/KW)

Selective auditory attention skills of 21 learning disabled children as compared with the performance of 23 normal achievers (seven- to nine-years-old) were examined. Performance of the LD children was affected more than normal achievers under all distractor conditions. (Author/CL)

Results of the study, which involved undergraduate and graduate music students, demonstrated that (1) various rhythmic alterations affect perception of rhythmic dissimilarity; (2) melody alters perception of rhythmic dissimilarity; (3) and the simultaneous presentation of melody and rhythm may result in reduced attention to absolute rhythmic…

The auditory memory loss of same-different vowel discrimination experiments with a silent delay appear to be asymptotic at about three seconds, whether measured by correct discrimination or by contextual influences of the first vowel on identification of the second. (Author/PN)