description and evaluation of structured speaking and listening activities for hearingimpaired adults this study was designed to evaluate improvement in word comprehension pronunciation and auditory discrimination as a result of structured group experience in speaking and listening subjects included 75 college students with hearing impairment and auditory discrimination for speech subjects were divided into three groups matched on the basis of hearing characteristics groups a and b received 20 hours of instruction over a 10wk interval group a was evaluated relative to word comprehension word usage in writing and pronunciation group b was evaluated relative to auditory discrimination before and after training group c control did not receive training but auditory discrimination was evaluated over the 10wk interval significant improvements in word comprehension word usage in writing pronunciation and in auditory discrimination were achieved as a result of training no significant change in auditory discrimination was observed in the control group