Discusses issues related to orality, aurality, and literacy in the teaching and understanding of mathematics. Also discusses ritual and tradition in mathematics instruction. (MM)

Assessment of severely multiply handicapped children was completed via formal and informal assessment with data covering medical, ophthalmological, auditory, and educational aspects. Visual functioning was evaluated by considering the type of visual stimulus experienced, varying visual tasks, and student motivation and ability. Auditory evaluation…

Three groups of college students were exposed to a 22 minute interview with a cerebral palsied person, in either an audio, video, or transcript format. An expectancy questionnaire covering such aspects as academic and vocational achievements, communication with the public, ability to handle put downs, and effectiveness of sexual expression was…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO INVESTIGATE THE POSSIBILITY OF THE EXISTENCE OF DIFFERENT SENSORY-IMAGE TYPES IN LANGUAGE LEARNING. A GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE WAS DEVELOPED WHICH INCLUDED QUESTIONS ON VISUAL AND AUDITORY IMAGERY. THIS WAS ADMINISTERED TO 50 COLLEGE FRESHMEN AND NEWLY ARRIVED AIRMEN AT THE AIR FORCE LANGUAGE SCHOOL LOCATED AT INDIANA…

RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF A SELF-MONITORING METHOD OF TEACHING PROPER INTONATION AND INFLECTION PATTERNS TO THE DEAF. THIS TEACHING METHOD INCLUDED USE OF A VISUAL DISPLAY WHICH IS BASED ON PITCH INFORMATION DERIVED FROM A LIVE SPEECH SIGNAL. FOUR PROFOUNDLY DEAF CHILDREN WERE THE SUBJECTS FOR THE EXPERIMENT. A…

The practicality of using speeded speech as an educational medium was explored in an Immersion study, in a Criterion study, and in Retention studies. Tapes of novels were used for listening; compression was achieved by a device that removed small segments of the tape-recorded speech sounds and, then, abutted the remainder of the speech record…

To test subject's capacity for auditory learning, four experiments were conducted in which college students were given the task of identifying specific multidimensional sounds after a period of practice. A computer-based teaching machine was used which incorporated the following features: (1) continual interrogation and overt response; (2)…

The chapter defines speech perception, raises such questions as the nature of acoustical correlates of linguistic units, reviews available information on the auditory capabilities of hearing impaired listeners (such as detection of the time/intensity envelope and temporal resolution), and addresses the relationship between auditory skills and…

A study examining the visual-auditory integration ability of 16 mildly mentally retarded adolescents revealed that Ss did significantly better on intrasensory than intersensory tasks and were more effective on tasks requiring judgments of intrasensory equivalence than those requiring judgments of intersensory equivalence. (Author/CL)

Concludes that combined audiovisual presentations were significantly superior to either audio or visual presentations of information, thus confirming the validity of the Cue Summation Theory. (RB)

Music in America has an elitist history. While music colleges stress the development of performers, there is no comparable education for the audience which must support them. Music appreciation should emphasize aural memory, so that audiences can understand the basic materials which lead to musical coherence. (CS)

Following pretraining on three figures, 44 nonhandicapped preschoolers were assigned to experimental groups to investigate methods of integrating a new, similar symbol into a set of familiar symbols to approximate the difficult disciminations encountered by young children in school. (Author)