DESIGNED FOR STUDENT AND PRACTICING SPEECH PATHOLOGISTS AND AUDIOLOGISTS, THIS BOOK DISCUSSES THE HISTORY OF AUDITORY TRAINING, PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH HEARING LOSS, THE DEVELOPMENT OF ORAL LANGUAGE, BASIC CONCEPTS OF AUDITORY PERCEPTION, AND SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF AUDITORY TRAINING. SUCH ASPECTS INCLUDE--(1) FACTORS RELATING TO AUDITORY TRAINING, (2) THE INTERRELATIONSHIP OF LANGUAGE, AUDITORY TRAINING, LIP READING, SPEECH THERAPY, AND OTHER MODALITIES, (3) AUDITORY TRAINING EQUIPMENT, AND (4) THE RELATIVE MERITS ASSOCIATED WITH GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL AUDITORY TRAINING SESSIONS. PROBLEMS INVOLVED IN AUDITORY TRAINING WITH MULTIPLY HANDICAPPED INDIVIDUALS ARE DISCUSSED. INCLUDED IS A REVIEW OF RECORDED AND PRINTED AUDITORY TRAINING MATERIALS AS WELL AS SUGGESTIONS FOR EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AUDITORY TRAINING. THIS DOCUMENT WAS PUBLISHED BY PRENTICE-HALL, INC., ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NEW JERSEY. $5.50. (EB)