<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>Amy,</div><div><br></div><div>I've never dealt with a partially deaf student, so I can't offer any suggestions there. However, in 2008 we had an undergraduate whose severe asthma prevented her from singing more than 3-4 notes in a row. The disabilities office here at IU agreed to purchase a Theremin for this student, and she successfully completed her aural skills requirements on the instrument. As I recall, it was fairly inexpensive (around $250) and easy to learn to play. It proved to be a really effective workaround for that student.</div><div><br></div><div>Best of luck,</div><div><br></div>Kyle Adams<div>Associate Professor of Music Theory</div><div>Jacobs School of Music</div><div>Indiana University</div><br><br><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Amy Bauer <abauer@uci.edu> </div><div>Date:10/02/2014 4:34 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org </div><div>Subject: [Smt-talk] Audio disability question </div><div><br></div>
Dear colleagues,<br>
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We have a very hard-working, gifted young pianist who cannot pass
her aural skills sequence. She has bronchial pulmonary dispasia
(which affects her ability to sight-sing). But her primary issue is
almost total deafness in her left ear. She struggled for a long
while to understand why she had absolutely no problems with speech
or understanding speech, but had difficulty reproducing and
recognizing pitch height. According to a recent research paper she
shared with me, we use our left ears almost exclusively for that
purpose, while using the right ear to decipher speech and
syntactical relationships.<br>
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Has anyone dealt with a similar situation, or has anyone dealt with
a situation where a student simply could not complete their aural
skills requirement for medical reasons?<br>
<br>
Thank you very much for any replies.<br>
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