A Descriptive Study of the Goldman-Fristoe-Woodcock Test of Auditory Discrimination and Selected Reading Variables with Primary School Children
assess auditory learning. Chalfant and Schefflin (1969) recently emphasized the significance of the auditory channel as an important avenue of childhood learning. Gallagher (1960) related that &dquo;in comparison to the visualmotor areas, other areas of sensory perception have almost been neglected [p. 19] .&dquo; Increased concern for children with learning disabilities has helped to foster an interest in identifying specific areas of disability (such as might be found in the auditory and visual modalities) and in the development of prescriptions to remediate the disability peculiar to a particular modality. Measurement devices that are used