This book offers a number of exercises to develop students' listening skills. The exercises consist of number or letter grid worksheets on which a graphic design or a message emerges when students follow a sequence of specific directions requiring careful listening and auditory-visual coordination. Preliminary information includes an introduction,…

This book offers a number of exercises to develop students' listening skills. The exercises consist of number or letter grid worksheets which are completed by following a sequence of specific directions requiring careful listening and auditory-visual coordination. A graphic design or message emerges when the worksheets are completed. Preliminary…

A study explored the relationship between the second language (L2) production of the Spanish stop consonants /p/ and /b/. Subjects were native English-speaking students enrolled in an undergraduate Spanish phonetics course. Data were collected on their production of Spanish /p,b/ in sentence context, and on their perceptual boundary between the…

Use of the Slingerland Screening Tests to detect auditory, visual, and kinesthetic handicaps among children in the classroom is advocated in reference to implementation of Tennessee Public Law 839 which mandates educational services for handicapped persons 4 to 20 years of age. (JC)

Good listening is a process that requires such elements as direct training, patience, practice, and understanding. (JH)

Toddlers (2 to 3 years) and preschool children (5 to 6 years) were repeatedly presented with a six-tone melody, then tested for their discrimination of a variety of pattern features, including the specific component frequencies, successive intervals, and general melodic contour. To manipulate the information-processing demands of the task, the…

A study of consonant-vowel linkages focused on the nature of the vowel boundaries with onset and codas. Subjects judged the status of various word pairs as possible exemplars of a particular manipulation they had been taught to listen for in model nonsense words. The models were of three distinct tasks: (1) a nucleus substitution task, to replace…

This paper describes three experiments which demonstrated the presence of binaural perception abilities (the ability to use both ears) in 4-month-old but not in 2-month-old infants. All of the experiments employed a visual fixation habituation-dishabituation paradigm in which infants were given a series of visual fixation trials while binaural…

Discussed are normal and abnormal mechanisms of learning observed in the learning disabled child and associated educational implications. (DB)

Electromyographic experiments were performed indicating that durational differences between vowels that precede voiced consonants and those that precede voiceless ones are due to a sustention of muscular activity in articulation, which occurs only with vowels preceding voiced consonants. (SC)