Occupational Abilities - Auditory and Speech
Hearing Sensitivity — The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
Auditory Attention — The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
Sound Localization — The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
1. Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
2. Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
3. Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
4. Speak clearly so others can understand you.
5. Communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
6. Identify and understand the speech of another person.
7. Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
8. Tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
9. Combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
10. Focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
[ Source : Virginia Career Resource Network ]