To determine if patterns of listening and reading skill development in mildly handicapped children differed markedly from those of non-handicapped children, 180 learning disabled (LD), educable mentally retarded (EMR), and nonhandicapped (NH) children from rural and urban settings were given the Durell Listening-Reading Series. A multivariate…

If music is the product of a peculiarly human behavior, the study of music rightfully belongs to the humanities program. (Author)

A discussion of current thought and practice in foremen training suggests that what is needed most is training in listening techniques for all levels of management. (Author/MW)

Author found it imperative to examine cognitive objectives in order to determine which may be relevant to fostering a deeper and more lasting enjoyment of the music in a listening lesson. Suggestions for a productive listening program were offered. (Author/RK)

Argues that the term "reading potential," as it is now commonly used and computed by many reading personnel, needs to be delegitimatized. (Author/SDH)

Competencies recommended by speech communication and educational researchers, as well as communication specialists and teachers of various content areas are identified. Guidelines are presented for teachers, who should demonstrate competencies in sending and receiving messages that: (1) are used to obtain or give information; (2) express or…

The Target: Communication Skills program instituted in the Lincoln, Nebraska, public schools proposes that all students, K-12, in all subject areas be provided with opportunities to develop and improve their communication skills. The program emphasizes four basic skills: speaking, observing, listening, and nonverbal skills. In applying this…

A shadowing paradigm was used to determine the extent to which subjects could comprehend a spoken message without allocating attention or awareness to it. The paradigm involved presenting subjects with a control passage describing neutral events and an experimental passage describing embarrassing events over an unattended auditory channel.…

Three experiments used "rhyme priming," a methodology in which lexical decisions to a visually presented word are facilitated when the word is preceded by a rhyming word, to investigate the access and maintenance of speech-based codes in sentence comprehension. In these experiments, the pairs were visually dissimilar rhymes, such as…

An experiment was undertaken with young children to look at the relative contribution of discourse constraints, subject anaphors, and the semantics of verbs to the integration of an utterance into its discourse representation. Children aged 5, 7, and 10 years heard a series of short stories, each consisting of three sentences and an incomplete…

Reports results of whether microtraining was more effective than reflective listening in teaching attending behavior skills to introductory counseling students. Found no significant differences between the two techniques; however, reflective listening was viewed as a much simpler procedure. (PC)

Suggests new approaches to the problem of listening comprehension for advanced foreign language learners. (Author)

The main objective of this article has been to describe an approach to music listening that can bring a greater compatibility between the goals and practices of aesthetic education. (Author/RK)

Author provided examples to help teachers begin work in evaluative listening in their classes and considered the influence of advertising on children. (Author/RK)