This article describes a plan for helping inservice special educational personnel with emphasis on the learner and the learning act rather than on teaching. By adequate management of experiences in a structured learning and training environment, children with language disorders can be helped to assume responsibility for their own learning and move at their own rate through a variety of instructional units specifically developed in the area of auditory processing.
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