Results of the study involving 15 good and 15 poor readers (10-13 years old) revealed that poor readers did not demonstrate atypical laterality or phonetic processing effects in dichotic consonant vowel tasks. Results support findings that reading disabled children exhibit a deficit in processing two items on dichotic tasks. (Author/CL)

The author offers guidelines for improving listening skills. Emphasis is on listening to key words and word arrangement. (RWP)

An approach to music instruction that stresses hearing and analyzing is discussed. (DB)

A conferee who internalizes certain behavioral traits (hold your fire, soft-pedal your prejudices, and cultivate "greedy listening") can "experience with" the speaker. This empathy is the whole art of a conference. (EB)

Discusses the importance of effective listening, the factors affecting listening, types of poor listening, and how to listen better. (JOW)

The study comparing effects of speaking rate and clear versus conversational speech to intelligibility by the hard of hearing concluded that simple processing to alter the relative durations of the speech materials was not adequate to assess the contribution of speaking rate to intelligibility differences. (Author/DB)

Examines the impact of listeners on speakers' later memory for events. Shows that attentive listeners facilitate long-term memory, whereas situations with distracted listeners are difficult to distinguish from situations with no listener and with no recounting at all. (SR)

Describes the development of five perceptual audio coders to measure small audible differences in the audio engineering field. The Rasch model offers a way to control statistical analysis of experimental data so as to maximize reproducibility and applicability across conditions and listeners. (SLD)

Declared the year of YouTube, 2007 was hailed as bringing a technological revolution in relation to pedagogy, one that may provide more convenient access to materials for language input, such as auditory, visual, and other types of authentic resources in order to promote advancement in all four language learning skills--listening, speaking,…

Runaway behavior is a national epidemic that affects many school-aged youths. Although there are no definitive numbers, it has been estimated that between 1.3 and 2.8 million youths run away each year, and youths with disabilities are more at risk for engaging in runaway behavior than their nondisabled peers. Considering the high number of youths…

As a result of investigations showing that communication problems can be a significant contributing factor to major aviation accidents, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has established a set of Language Proficiency Requirements. All pilots and air traffic controllers engaged in international aviation must be certified by their…

This study examined the percentage of task-sampling variability in performance assessment via a meta-analysis. In total, 50 studies containing 130 independent data sets were analyzed. Overall results indicate that the percentage of variance for (a) differential difficulty of task was roughly 12% and (b) examinee's differential performance of the…