Daniel Ling

Daniel Ling, OC ( born March 16, 1926 in Wetherden, Suffolk; † August 9, 2003 in Cobble Hill, British Columbia ) was a British- Canadian educator, pioneer of auditory- verbal education of hearing training and for the cochlear implant.

Life

In the 1940s, Daniel Ling served as an instructor for radar and technical communication in the Royal Air Force ( RAF) in England before moving to York to study music at St. John 's College and graduated as a music teacher. The encounter with a deaf student during a music teacher internship, for which he sought ways to teach him something can, tipped the scales for changing his career plans.

He studied audiology and deaf education at Manchester University under Sir Alexander Ewing and Lady Ethel and worked from 1951 to 1955 in Sheffield, before he was appointed director of education for the deaf in Reading, Berkshire. Here he taught from 1955 to 1963 and began its technical experience in the RAF to build and develop hearing aids so that deaf children could be taught primarily by ear. So it was possible for them to learn to speak and to be fully integrated into mainstream classes. His research he led at first by the Cambridge Institute of Education and later as a Ph.D. project the Department of Psychology of the University of Reading in. These early examples of auditory- verbal education impressed the British education minister Sir Edward Boyle. He attached great importance to the fact that deaf children were able to develop a fluent spoken language and meant that compact method a model for similar programs across the UK was.

In 1963 he emigrated from England to Canada to become rector of the Montreal Oral School for the Deaf. From 1973 to 1984 he was professor of the Gradudiertenstudium ( Graduate Studies ) on Aural Habilitation at the School of Human Communication Disorders, McGill University. From 1984 to 1991 he was Dean of the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences ( Faculty of Applied Health Sciences ) at the University of Western Ontario.

He was a founding member of the International Committee for Auditory Verbal Communication ( ICAVC ) ( Auditory Verbal International AVI later ), the predecessor of today's AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language. Together with other auditory- verbal pioneers like Helen Beebe, Ciwa Griffiths and Doreen Pollack Ling put the foundations for the modern developments in the field of listening and spoken language.

In his spare time he played the violin and built violins, violas and cellos.

Work

Developed by Ling over forty years of language training methods and tests are used worldwide. Backed by its experience in the field of education of hearing impaired children he helped build many training centers around the world, which will benefit children with hearing loss and their families. He trained new teachers, opened new clinics, advising concerned parents, creating important textbooks that are used internationally in speech therapy to teach hearing-impaired children. His teaching methods focused on the use of residual hearing the child to develop spoken language.

The cochlear implant now enables deaf children to learn the spoken language, as it was previously not possible. Developed by Ling Ling Six Sound check is used to ensure a good performance of the implant. It uses the six phonemes oo, ee, ah, m, s, and sh. They differ in their frequency and cover the whole spectrum of speech. If the child can not hear any of the sounds exactly ( without the possibility to lip-read ) and repeat it or can point to a leaf, the implant is functioning properly. His speech training methods are used worldwide.

The phonetics - phonology - language test evaluates segmental and non- segmental aspects of the language on a phonetic and phonological level. The answers to phonetic level is obtained through piracy and the answers to the phonological level by examining spontaneous language samples.

In 1999, Ling was honored for his life's work and his outstanding achievements in the service of the nation and its commitment to the common good with the Order of Officer of the Order of Canada. For his achievements have been honored who have enriched the lives and influences of others, not only in Canada, but, as regards the education of children with hearing impairment in the world.

Ling Ling is named for the Consortium, an international association of professionals who develop globally recognized scientific courses on listening and spoken language for children with hearing impairment. Hear and Say WorldWide is a member of Modeling Consortium.

Honors

Publications (selection)

• Aural Habilitation: The Foundations of Verbal Learning in Hearing - Impaired Children. Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf; Washington, D.C. June 1978, ISBN 0882001213
• Cumulative Record of Speech Skill Acquisition. Alexamder Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, Washington DC January 1978, ISBN 0882001159
• Foundations of Spoken Language for Hearing - Impaired Children. Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, Washington DC December 1988, ISBN 0882001655
• The Phonetic phono Logic Speech Evaluation Record: A Manual. Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Washington DC, USA 1991
• Speech and the Hearing - Impaired Child: Theory and Practice. Alex Graham Bell Association for the Deaf; Washington DC, 1976. 2nd Edition September 2002, ISBN 0882002139