A case study describes audiologic test results from a child considered dysynchronous (out of phase with environments of home, school, or peers) whose problems were exacerbated by middle ear infection. Auditory perceptual/processing problems were uncovered. (Author/CL)

Fifty-five poor readers and 58 normal readers in grade six were presented a modified version of B. Hamill's tone pattern-phrase matching procedure. Consistent with Hamill's adults, Ss tended to choose phrases which matched long tone durations to content words and short durations to function words. (Author/CL)

Although the traditional idea of general education has been that there are certain things every civilized man ought to know in order to be "cultivated", there is no longer an ideal taste in music or a particular set of understandings about music that all people must acquire. (Author)

This study was designed to investigate the developmental aspects of performance by a group of normal children on tasks constructed to measure auditory figure-ground perception, and to compare this function with academic achievement. (Author)

Research supported by a National Science Foundation grant to the University of Texas at Austin. (RS)

Five experienced articulation judges scored the tape-recorded responses of four first and second grade children with articulatorily deviant /r/s under two response arrangement conditions. (Author)

An experimental group of education majors received 15 hours of phonetics instruction; auditory perception test results showed the group scored considerably higher than other students receiving no instruction. (SP)