The second of a three-volume final report presents results of three studies on indexing systems for tape recordings used by blind persons. Study I is explained to have compared five tonal index codes in order to identify a code that required minimal display time, that had easily discriminable characters, and that could be easily learned. Results…

Possible interactions of individual learning differences and mode of presentation were investigated in college students. Individual differences in learning were found to be reliable and just as predictable across as within modalities. Subjects could not be reliably classified in terms of auditory-visual preference scores. (Author/BH)

The chapter describes developments in the use of residual hearing in educating hearing impaired children from ancient times to the present and raises questions concerning the usefulness of auditory training, the age at which amplification should be provided, hearing and lipreading in combination, and effects of powerful hearing aids on residual…

Results indicated a significant difference between the 18 normal readers and the 36 learning-disabled readers on tasks matching auditory temporal to visual-spatial and auditory-temporal to visual-temporal but not on the visual-temporal to visual-spatial task. Results were interpreted in terms of learning-disabled readers being deficient in…

Describes early experience of learning through listening to foreign language broadcasts. (RS)

The judgment of vocal affect was studied in 19 language delayed children and 19 children with normal language. The children identified utterances spoken in an angry, happy, or sad tone of voice. The language delayed children made significantly fewer correct judgments. (Author/SEW)

Visually impaired students need specially designed relief maps to learn map reading and to achieve geographic literacy. The development of geographic instructional materials, including relief maps and audio-tutorial cassette tapes, for low-vision students in grades 5-10 is described. (AM)

A one-way analysis of variance was used to assess the effects of imposed (picture) and induced (play) imagery on the aural language comprehension of 80 kindergarten children who were randomly assigned to two treatment and two control conditions. No significant differences in recall were found. (Author/JD)

The study, involving 92 second and third graders with deficits in reading and auditory sequential memory (ASM), examined the possibility of improving ASM through training and the relationship between this training and reading ability. (Author/CL)

The article reviews the literature on listening as an effective learning skill for the visually handicapped, and suggests ways of helping visually handicapped students to improve their listening skills. (Author/DLS)

Reports two experiments which investigated the effect of three pretraining conditions on the discrimination of select pitch patterns. Finds no significant differences among groups but results show a significant age effect. Indicates that providing activities requiring children to compare tonal patterns is at least as effective as vocal repetition…