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The moans surrounded my head and the weariness of the sounds spooked the forest. I could not concentrate on what the sound was and most importantly who were making those sounds. I had no idea what to do I was just frozen in place. Then, I remembered the poem that we found in the middle of the cabin remember what makes your friends light up, you might not have seen close up. I closed my eyes and brought the three of our heads together and remembering all of the fun times we shared. When I…

Twas a night on Halloween, very dark and the full moon was shining right through the clouds like the ones in the movie. One human and one dog wanted to do the unaccomplished and climb mount rushmore. There names were Mike and Ike. They were best friends since Mike got out of college back in 2013. But what they did not know is that someone else was going to be at mount rushmore at such a late time. Mike packed all their gear and put it all in the car ready to go. It was in only a 45 minute drive…

which discusses the treatment and tools for children diagnosed with auditory-processing disorder. Another definition of ADP is “A disorder in the recognition, discrimination, ordering, grouping, and localization of sounds, with both organizations emphasizing the processing of non-speech sounds” (Moore, 2007, p. 295-304). There are studies shown that there are similarities in that of dyslexia. That is why it gets overlooked so much when assessing the child for auditory-processing. The children…

other Listening skills are very important part of our daily life. From baby to adulthood uses listening skills to understand and take information to which we convert the language to which we tend to understand the meaning of what we are hearing. The sound process and sent the signal to the brain to translate into the meaning words. For example, when the baby was born about one to two years old, parent like mother and father teaches the baby by making the baby hearing the repeated words every…

This is a true story about when my family and I moved to Dotson Street. When I was 2 years old we sold our old house and had to live in my great-grandparents house, when my new house was being built. My great grandparents were not there because they had recently moved into an assisted living complex. My great grandparents let, Steve, Susan, Cody, Nolan, my dog Chase, and I stay in their home. Everything seemed normal at first while we were moving in, but as time went on things got strange. The…

While music and language are both processed by the auditory cortex, language generally considered to be lateralized to the left hemisphere, and properties of music to the right. However, some features of sound are common to perception of both music and language. These common features include pitch, timbre, and hierarchical structure. In music, perception of pitch is important in identifying aspects such as melodies and harmonies in a musical piece. In non-tonal languages, variations of pitch…

answers on Just Noticeable Difference was if JND could be a suitable as a unit of measure. Analyzing data from two prior experiments, where participants were to discriminate different colors when shown different brightness intervals and applying it to sound also. Once all the data was analyzed, the researchers determined that JND could not be used as a unit of measure (Newman, 1933). Although JND could not be used as a unit of measurement, a debate of the luminosity perception, is the given…

Zzzzzzzz zzz zzzzzzzz zzz… Leah sluggishly woke up from her slumber to the sound of her phone vibrating against her wooden side table. Still bleary eyed, she picked up the phone. There was some muffled voices that she could not distinguish. "Hello?" Leah mumbled The voices stopped, and all that could be heard was heavy breathing. In her dazed and confused state she asked, “Who is this?” No reply. The familiarity of the situation hits Leah, as she starts to come to her senses and sees the dull…

speech disorder found among children. Due to its perplexity, professionals have been unable to compose a definitive definition for CAS. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA, 2007) broadly defines CAS as a neurological pediatric speech sound disorder in which the motor movements needed in speech production lack accuracy and consistency with no signs or forms of neuromuscular deficit. Generally speaking, children diagnosed with CAS show difficulty planning and sequencing the…

To listen to a piece of music does not necessarily mean that you have understood the ideas and/or emotions musicians and composers are trying to convey. Through this class, you have not only taught me how to describe music, and Its effects but how our own individual experiences influence how we interpret, and react to music. When first I began taking music classes in high school, I was not taught how to listen to music correctly and how to describe how it affected me. I would often find myself…