AUDITORY ATTENTION AND VIGILANCE
(Exerpts from the Auditory Perceptual Training Program)

The following two demonstrations provide one training approach to auditory attention and vigalance. In Task 1, the children have to attend to and wait for a particular voice. There are both male and female voices involved. In Task 2, only female voices are used. This makes the task a little harder because of the similarity of the voices. Hence, even a higher level of attention and vigilance is required to do the task.

These excerpts were taken from the Auditory Perceptual Training Program for Improving Auditory Perceptual Processes of Children in the Elementry Grades, by Belle Ruth Witkin, Ph.D. It was published by the Alameda County School Department, 224 West Winton Ave., Hayward, CA 94544, 1973.

Please keep in mind that these are only exerpts and that extensive work is done in the complete program prior to these exercises to prepare the children to do the tasks. The exercises were arranged to proceed from simple to more complex tasks.