TABLE 4-1 Examples of Form-Oriented Versus Meaning-Oriented Auditory Training Tasks at the Level of Phonetic/Phonemic, Word, Sentence, and Discourse Linguistic Categories FORM-ORIENTED Stimulus: Ba-Ma LEVEL Phonetic/ Phonemic Task: Answer the question, Are these syllables the same or different? Word Sentence Discourse Stimulus: cat-caterpillar Task: Answer the question, Which word is longer? Stimulus: The chef made an apple pie. Task: Listen to this sentence and then repeat it verbatim. Stimulus: A read passage MEANING-ORIENTED Stimulus: bat-cat Task: Point to one of four sets of picture pairs that illustrate these two words and in this order. (The patient is shown the following sets of pictures: a bat and a bat; a cat and a cat; a bat and a cat; a cat and a bat) Stimulus: cat Task: Point to one of four pictures that illustrates this word. (The patient is shown the following four pictures: a cat; a rat; a cab; a hat) Stimulus: The chef made an apple pie. Task: Answer the question, What kind of pie did the chef make? Stimulus: A read passage Task: As you hear this passage, follow along in the text with your finger. Task: Listen to this passage, then answer questions about the content of the passage.