A total of 72 motorically or nonmotorically impaired, learning disabled, elementary grade children were given tasks of auditory synthesis and analysis to determine possible differences. Ss were asked to either separate sounds of a word (analysis) or blend sounds into a word (synthesis). Results indicated that nonmotorically impaired children were…

Three groups of traditional houses were insulated against aircraft noise by double glazing and installing sound attenuating ventilator units. For upper floor rooms of two story houses, overall insulations of 35-40 dB were obtainable, providing transmission through the roofs and down flues were also reduced. The noise levels caused by ventilator…

Presented are data on audiological examinations collected by the Annual Survey of Hearing Impaired Children and Youth for over 35,000 students enrolled in special educational programs for the hearing impaired during the 1969-70 school year. Statistics reported include age, sex, and hearing threshold levels (better ear averages) of the students;…

This handbook, written for parents, teachers, and others working with children for the purpose of early recognition of defective visual perceptual functioning, presents a training program designed to improve visual perception and suggestions for implementation of this program. To assist the trainer in establishing a beginning level for training,…

The experiment employed Sternberg's procedure to investigate the effects of presentation and test modalities (auditory or visual), and number of presentations on the processing rate of monosyllabic words of varying graphemic and phonemic length. Twenty college students and 20 sixth graders served as Ss. Each S received all conditions and lists in…

The paper urges educators to take a renewed view of the problems and implications associated with auditory impairment in the student. Helping a child learn to utilize incoming information efficiently is seen as a problem of management. The processing of auditory information is briefly considered in the determination of what is entailed in the…

The auditory reassembly ability of 160 children drawn from the total third- and fifth-grade populations of three public elementary schools was investigated as a function of grade level and reading ability. The stimuli were temporally segmented consonant-vowel-consonant monosyllables with interphonemic intervals of 100, 200, 300, and 400…

A case study is presented of a 12-year-old child with a congenital profound bilateral sensori-neural hearing loss, who received rehabilitative audio-therapy according to the verbotonal method. (Author/LS)

Critical bandwidth measurements and sensitivity prediction from the acoustic reflex test results were obtained on 20 adult normal-hearing and two groups of 10 adult hearing impaired Ss each representing mild-to-moderate and severe hearing loss. (Author)

Learning music can help children with reading readiness and beginning reading skills. (MKM)

In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) in discriminating auditory or visual deficits, 121 learning disabled children (mean age 100 months) were tested. (PHR)

Four experiments are reported investigating previous findings that speech perception interferes with concurrent verbal memory but difficult nonverbal perceptual tasks do not, to any great degree. (Editor)

Learning to sing well is usually a long, complicated process for both the teacher and student. In December 1977 (AA 527 824), eight prominent voice teachers gave their opinions on voice teaching methods. In this, the second in the three-part series, the eight panelists offer their views on interpretation, vowel sounds, range, breathing, "belting",…

Three experiments investigated the relationship in speech perception between the mechanisms that determine the source of speech sounds and those that analyze their actual acoustic contents and extract from them the acoustic cues to a sound's phonetic description. (Author/RK)