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)

Two experiments involving a total of 177 infants 8 to 11 months of age found that subjects used a global processing strategy like adults' in discriminating transformations of a six-tone melody. Subjects needed melodic contour and frequency range to judge new sequences, but, in easy tasks, they also used absolute frequency. (CB)

Examines, in two experiments, 5-month-old infants' sensitivity to auditory-visual specification of distance and direction of movement. One experiment presented two films with soundtracks in either a match or mismatch condition; the second showed the two films side-by-side with a single soundtrack appropriate to one. Infants demonstrated visual…

Attempts to determine (1) the number and nature of perceptual dimensions of tone in Cantonese, Mandarin, and Taiwanese listeners; (2) to what extent individual differences in tone perception are influenced by a Chinese listener's language background, and (3) whether differences in perceptual saliency of dimensions across Chinese languages can be…

The London Procedure, a diagnostic/prescriptive instrument for adult basic education, is found to lack content validity, to make arbitrary interpretations of results, and not to reflect current research in literacy acquisition and learning disabilities. (SK)

Resource teachers can bridge the gap between themselves and music educators who work with learning disabled children by discussing schedules and goals with the music teachers and apprising them of students' learning strengths and weaknesses which are applicable to music education. (Author/MC)

Part of a Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota; results were presented in part at the 81st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, April 1971. (DD)

Work supported in part by four U.S. Public Health Service grants. (VM)

This paper, supported by a Public Health Research Grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, was presented at the Conference on Symbolic Processes, Akron, Ohio, in October 1970. (VM)

Summarized are several nonverbal assessment techniques for aphasics. Two experiments concern speech perception (the scaling of speech and the relationship between aphasic's performance and level of auditory impairment) and one concerns the impact of aphasia on one's affective or attitudinal response to a symbol (connotative meaning). (KW)

Conventional (linear) amplification supplemented with frequency transposition was compared with conventional amplification alone in teaching speech to 18 severely deaf children. The former was not found to be superior to conventional amplification alone as an aid in articulation training. (Author)

Automated and traditional procedures for teaching speech sound discrimination (the /s/ phoneme) were found to be equally effective with 40 second through fourth grade speech handicapped students. (KW)