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Early Visual Deprivation Severely Compromises the Auditory Sense of Space in Congenitally Blind Children
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Vercillo, Tiziana; Burr, David; Gori, Monica – Developmental Psychology, 2016
A recent study has shown that congenitally blind adults, who have never had visual experience, are impaired on an auditory spatial bisection task (Gori, Sandini, Martinoli, & Burr, 2014). In this study we investigated how thresholds for auditory spatial bisection and auditory discrimination develop with age in sighted and congenitally blind…
Descriptors: Congenital Impairments, Blindness, Children, Auditory Perception
What Predicts the Effectiveness of Foreign-Language Pronunciation Instruction? Investigating the Role of Perception and Other Individual Differences
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Kissling, Elizabeth M. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2014
This study investigated second language (L2) learners' perception of L2 sounds as an individual difference that predicted their improvement in pronunciation after receiving instruction. Learners were given explicit pronunciation instruction in a series of modules added to their Spanish as a foreign language curriculum and were then tested on their…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Pronunciation Instruction, Spanish, Second Language Learning
Music for the Special Child.
Aird, Richard – Special Education: Forward Trends, 1978
A music program teaches auditory skills at an English school for mentally handicapped students. (Author/PHR)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Age, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception