Study Supported by Grant M-3519 fromn the National Institute of Mental Health, U.S. Public Health Services.

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) subtest scatter and Bannatyne recategorization scores were investigated with three types of learning disabilities in children 6 to 16 years old: visual-motor and visual-perceptual disability (N=66); auditory-perceptual and receptive language deficit (N=18); and memory deficit (N=12). Three…

Three experiments in auditory selective attention form the basis of this investigation of cross-cultural differences among the ethnic groups of the Ibo and Yoruba adolescents of Nigeria. A sample of 200 16-year-olds were randomly drawn from four secondary schools. Yoruba adolescents showed superior performance in a task-involving the repetition of…

The perception of duration in consonant segments is compared with their produced durations, and adults' and children's performance in this respect are compared. The temporal organization imposed by adults on initial consonant clusters was often not imposed by children from four to eight years of age, even though the cluster was produced…

Factors which affect the overall presentation of computer assisted instruction in the Voice Oriented Curriculum Author Language (VOCAL), and general guidelines for effective use of VOCAL in curriculum development are presented. Four major sections describe course design and review, spoken strings, display features, and six types of exercise…

In a previous study, subjects that heard a monaurally presented two-clause sentence immediately followed by a probe word (identical word recognition) were faster at recognizing the probe as a sentence word with their left ears than with their right ears. This result suggested that the right ear was particularly efficient at transforming…

THE PROBLEM OF THIS RESEARCH WAS TO DEVISE A NEW, NONVERBAL AND NONLANGUAGE PROCEDURE FOR TESTING THE HEARING OF MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN IN WHICH IMPAIRMENT IN DISCRIMINATING PURE TONES AT THRESHOLD LEVELS WOULD NOT BE CONFUSED WITH IMPAIRMENT OF AUDITORY SENSITIVITY. OPERANT CONDITIONING TECHNIQUES WERE APPLIED TO TRAINABLE MENTALLY RETARDED,…

THE RELATION OF HEARING LOSS IN SCHOOL PUPILS TO INFORMATION DERIVED FROM (1) SOCIOMETRIC TESTS, (2) SOCIAL BEHAVIOR TREND INDEXES, (3) TEACHER JUDGMENTS AND RATINGS, (4) PARENT QUESTIONNAIRES, AND (5) STANDARDIZED ACHIEVEMENT AND INTELLIGENCE TESTS WERE EXAMINED. THE SUBJECTS CONSISTED OF AN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP OF PUPILS WITH VARIOUS TYPES AND…

IN A PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING EXPERIMENT, THE SUBJECT'S OWN VOICE AND THEN THAT OF ANOTHER WERE HEARD TO TEST THE EFFECTIVENESS OF RECALL OF BOTH PRESENTATIONS. HALF OF THE WORDS FROM EACH VOICE WAS PRESENTED BY AIR-CONDUCTED SOUND TO EARPHONES AND HALF BY OCCLUDED BONE CONDUCTION. THE ORDER OF PRESENTATION OF VOICES, WORD-PAIR HALF-BLOCKS, AND…

THE 346 ENTRIES IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY COVER MATERIAL IN BOOKS, JOURNALS, AND MONOGRAPHS IN FIELDS RELATED TO THE SENSORY IMPAIRED, ESPECIALLY THE BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED. THE DATES RANGE FROM 1934 TO 1965. (MK)

Children, four, six, eight, and twelve years old, and adults participated in a study of judgments of syllable similarity. Subjects listened to a disyllabic nonsense unit (the standard) followed by two comparison stimuli; they were then asked to choose the comparison stimulus "most like" the standard. Changes between the comparison stimuli and the…

DURING THE FIRST YEAR OF THE PROJECT, TO DISCOVER MORE ADEQUATE WAYS OF MEASURING IMPORTANT TACTILE-KINESTHETIC MODALITIES, APPROXIMATELY 40 INSTRUCTORS WITHIN THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTES, WORKING WITH PROJECT STAFF MEMBERS, COMPLETED A CURRICULUM ANALYSIS FOR THE TECHNICAL OR TRADE SPECIALITY IN…

Just as the perceptual act of seeing and the higher cerebral process involved in reading are not identical, "listening" at the signal level of auditory perception is different from the act of auditory symbol comprehension known as "auding." Definitions of auding and contrasts between this process and the act of listening have been offered by Don…