Presents a 20-question inventory for use in evaluating listening skills. (MD)

Notes an absence of pleasure about and use of the English language, explained by: (1) the thriving industry of "put down" that makes people feel insecure about language; and (2) failure to appreciate simple, direct, pleasantly cadenced English. Encourages listening to the language to reawaken pleasure in it. (SR)

A five-year-old developmentally delayed, musically gifted child with no formal musical training was asked to repeat passages on the piano. Analysis of responses to melodies in each of the 24 major and minor keys indicated sensitivity to aspects of diatonic structure exhibited by mature listeners. (Author)

The children's use of cohesion in spoken narratives was compared across three groups of children all between seven and 10 years old: normal, language disordered with good story comprehension, and language disordered with poor story comprehension. Good comprehending language disordered and normal children used similar linguistic cohesive…

The many benefits of storytelling are listed. The article gives information on how to become a storyteller and offers tips on beginnings and endings. (MT)

Lists and discusses factors affecting listening comprehension. List was compiled from a literature survey, consulting a cross-section of teachers working at secondary and tertiary levels, and questioning students who had just finished their secondary education. (EKN)

Nine listening tests were administered to 52 children in grades three and six with variations in presentation procedures (unmodified, filtered, and attentuated) and distance from the speaker. Results concluded that filtering and attenuating interfered with speech perception and that distance significantly affected perception. (CL)

Cognitive mapping, in which information is depicted in graphic form and used to generate logical conclusions, helped illiterate youths increase their language and listening comprehension as well as their reading abilities. Examples of step-by-step procedures in both simple and detailed mapping are provided. (CL)

No significant differences were found between abilities of two groups of 33 blind and 33 sighted five- through 12-year-old children, matched for age, sex, and IQ, to detect communication-relevant characteristics (CRC) of listeners and construct messages adapted to the characteristics. (Author)

Off-the-shelf support containing all the vital information practitioners need to know about Speech and Language Difficulties, this book includes: (1) Strategies for developing attention control; (2) Guidance on how to improve language and listening skills; and (3) Ideas for teaching phonological awareness. Following a foreword and an introduction,…

Public relations as a process has four components: analysis, planning, communicating, and evaluation. The most important component, according to the author, is analysis, or listening. (Author/JF)

Results of a study aimed at determining whether it is possible to train students to become better listeners relative to a given set of skills, and whether there were socioeconomic or sex differences in the acquisition of these skills. (Author/AN)

Discusses use of linguistic concepts from the point of view of stimulation therapy and indices of recovery. (MM)

The results of this study of 24 9- and 10-year-old normal children indicated that by 9 years of age, children spontaneously adopt both ear and temporal recall strategies under the same conditions as do adults. The children readily switch from one recall strategy to the other as a function of the rate input of the material. (WY)