An investigation was made of the effects of age and sex on preschool children's discrimination of intensity in musical contexts. Subjects included 92 children ranging in age from 37 to 70 months. A total of 47 females and 45 males participated in the study. To determine preschoolers' loudness discrimination abilities, a new test was designed: The…

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…

DURING THIS PERIOD FROM SEPTEMBER 1 THROUGH NOVEMBER 30, 1966, 35 FIELD CONSULTANTS COMPLETED ANALYSIS OF THEIR INDIVIDUAL TRADE AND TECHNICAL CURRICULUMS. THESE ANALYSES WERE DEVELOPED INTO AN OUTLINE TO SERVE AS A GUIDE FOR DEVELOPING ACHIEVEMENT TESTS. THE FINAL OUTLINE WAS DIVIDED INTO AS MANY DIFFERENT AREAS AS THE CONSULTANTS FELT NECESSARY…

THE AUTOMATED SPEECH CORRECTION PROGRAM (ASCP) WAS DESIGNED TO TEST THE USE OF PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION IN THE REMEDIATION OF FUNCTIONAL ARTICULATION ERRORS. A SERIES OF PROGRAMED TAPES WHICH TAKE THE STUDENT THROUGH AUDITORY IDENTIFICATION, AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION, PRODUCTION, AND SELF-EVALUATION WERE DESIGNED. SUB-GOALS OF THE EXPERIMENT WERE A…

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…

Presented for teachers of visually impaired students is a curriculum guide focusing on listening skills. The guide provides hierarchically arranged long range goals and short term objectives for skills in auditory reception, auditory discrimination, auditory memory, auditory sequential memory, auditory closure, auditory association, and auditory…

The purpose of this study is to determine whether non-musically trained persons can make pitch discriminations as well as those with musical training. Four musically trained and four non-musically trained adults listened to an audio recording of pitches and judged whether the second pitch was higher or lower than the first. The results indicate…

This study was divided into two parts: the primary purpose of the visual discrimination study was to examine the relationship between four rebus sizes and discriminability; and the primary purpose of the auditory visual association study was to examine the relationship between four sizes of rebus symbols and the ability to associate them with…

This teacher's guide contains a list of general auditory problem areas where students have the following problems: (a) inability to find or identify source of sound; (b) difficulty in discriminating sounds of words and letters; (c) difficulty with reproducing pitch, rhythm, and melody; (d) difficulty in selecting important from unimportant sounds;…

The results of administering a 10-part diagnostic battery to more than 400 students in the basic reading course at Fullerton College in the fall of 1973 are reported in this document. Along with the basic data there is informal interpretation and speculation. The contents include: "Preface"; "Introduction: Purpose," which…

Based on research findings which suggest that stop and nasal sounds are difficult to discriminate by some children in the beginning years of school, this test is designed to appraise the ability of children to discriminate fine differentiations of stop and nasal sounds in minimal word-pair items. The major criteria for choice of test items were…

A report is presented which relates to a general hypothesis suggested by previous data on visual response to faces that in the first weeks of life infants develop expectations regarding the human face. Three predictions were made: (1) Silent human faces would elicit less direct regard than faces accompanied by voices; (2) A familiar face would…

A set of five orthographic generalizations was selected, taught, and reviewed at the fifth-grade level in an attempt to reduce spelling errors in unknown but commonly used English words. During a 6-week period, an experimental group of 95 students was given a series of exercises designed to develop spelling principles, and a control group received…