The Fifth Step

Abstract

As I explained above the first note that children appear to learn through their hearing is the note of C. Once the memory of this pitched note has become firmly enough established to be used for a fixed reference point, then spatial learning for both auditory span and frequency discrimination can really begin. We tend to forget that whereas the environment normally provides visual objects to use as reference points, and assist the development of visual function and spatial learning, for hearing the memory provides this; often there is an immediate improvement in clarity of speech once a hearing-impaired child has built up a memory of middle C.