Daniel Ling

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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 and hearing training for the cochlear implant .

Life

In the 1940s, Daniel Ling served as a radar and technical communications instructor in the Royal Air Force (RAF) in England before studying music and graduating as a music teacher at St. John's College in York . The encounter with a deaf student during a music teaching internship, for which he was looking for ways to teach him something, was the decisive factor in changing his career plans.

He studied Audiology and Deaf Education at Manchester University under Sir Alexander and Lady Ethel Ewing and worked in Sheffield from 1951 to 1955 before becoming Director of Deaf Education in Reading , Berkshire . Here he taught from 1955 to 1963 and, based on his technical experience at the RAF, began to build hearing aids and to develop them so that deaf children could primarily be taught about hearing. This enabled them to learn to speak and to be fully integrated into regular classes. He conducted his research first at the Cambridge Institute of Education and later as a Ph.D. Project in the Department of Psychology at the University of Reading . These early examples of auditory-verbal education impressed the British Minister of Education, Sir Edward Boyle . He placed great emphasis on deaf children developing fluent spoken language and made Ling's method a model for similar programs across the UK.

In 1963 he emigrated from England to Canada to become principal of the Montreal Oral School for the Deaf . From 1973 to 1984 he was professor of the Graduate Studies (Graduate Studies) via Aural Habilitation at the School of Human Communication Disorders of McGill University . From 1984 to 1991 he was Dean of the 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) (later Auditory Verbal International AVI ), the predecessor of today's AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language . Together with other auditory-verbal pioneers such as Helen Beebe , Ciwa Griffiths and Doreen Pollack , Ling laid the foundation for modern developments in the field of hearing and spoken language.

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

plant

The language training methods and tests developed by Ling over forty years are used worldwide. With his experience in raising hearing impaired children, he has helped set up many training centers around the world that will benefit children with hearing loss and their families. He trained new teachers, opened new clinics, advised affected parents and created important textbooks that are used internationally in speech therapy to educate hearing-impaired children. His teaching methods focused on using the child's residual hearing to develop spoken language.

The cochlear implant enables deaf children to learn spoken language in a way that was previously impossible. The Ling Six Sound-Check developed by Ling is used to ensure good performance of the implant. The six phonemes oo , ee , ah , m , s , and sh are used. They differ in their frequency and cover the entire language spectrum. If the child can clearly hear each of the sounds (without their lip reading) and repeat them or point them on a sheet of paper, the implant is working properly. His speech training methods are used worldwide.

The phonetics - phonology - language test evaluates segmental and non-segmental language aspects on the phonetic and phonological level. The answers on the phonetic level are obtained by imitation and the answers on the phonological level by examining spontaneous language samples.

In 1999, Ling was awarded the Order of Canada Officer of the Order for his life's work and outstanding service to the nation and his commitment to the common good . It recognized his accomplishments in enriching and influencing the lives of others, not just in Canada but around the world in educating children with hearing impairments.

Ling is the namesake of the Ling Consortium , an international network of experts who develop globally recognized scientific courses on hearing and spoken language for children with hearing impairments. Hear and Say WorldWide is a member of the Ling Consortium.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Aural Habilitation: The Foundations of Verbal Learning in Hearing-Impaired Children . Alexander Graham Bell Association for Deaf; Washington DC June 1978, ISBN 0882001213
  • Cumulative Record of Speech Skill Acquisition . Alexander Graham Bell Association for Deaf, Washington DC January 1978, ISBN 0882001159
  • Foundations of Spoken Language for Hearing-Impaired Children . Alexander Graham Bell Association for Deaf, Washington DC December 1988, ISBN 0882001655
  • The Phonetic-Phonologic 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 Deaf; Washington DC, 1976. 2nd Edition September 2002, ISBN 0882002139

literature

  • G. Nicholls: 'Cued Speech and the Reception of Spoken Language.' Master's Thesis, McGill University, Montreal, 1979 (available from Gallaudet University). Summary, co-authored by Dr. Daniel Ling, Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 25, 262-269, Nicholls, G. and Ling, D. (1982) [1]
  • Warren Estabrooks & Lois Birkenshaw-Fleming; Illustrator-Ken Keobke; Introduction-Daniel Ling: Hear & Listen! Talk & Sing Songs for Hearing Impaired Children 1994, ISBN 0969734123

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sokrates Comenius: Qualification of educational professionals in the promotion of the hearing impaired (QESWHIC) ( Memento from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 509 kB)
  2. ^ AG Bell: Daniel Ling's legacy for the 21st century
  3. ^ Daniel Ling PhD: The Phonetic-Phonologic Speech Evaluation Record . A manual. Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Washington DC, USA 1991
  4. ↑ Hear and Say WorldWide, Australia: Daniel Ling
  5. ↑ Letters Patent granting Armorial Bearings to Daniel Ling, accessdate = 2013-11-01
personal data
SURNAME Ling, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Canadian educator, pioneer of auditory-verbal education and hearing training for the cochlear implant
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetherden , Suffolk
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 2003
Place of death Cobble Hill , British Columbia