The following demonstration provides an example of a computer program designed to improve listening skills. It was developed by tbe Scientific Learning Corporation in Berkeley, California. The premis here is that children with poor temporal resolving power cannot hear the sequence of consonants, which are very short sounds relative to vowels. Using a complex computer program, they have lengthened the consonants so they can be perceived by these children. The listening that they achieve as a result of this develops a basic neual infra structure, which can then be shaped to the point where they can hear the position of normally produced consonants. You will notice how the consonants sound different.
This is only one very small excerpt from a very large complex computer program. For more information, see the adjacent notes in the lesson.
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