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Learning disability

In the United States and Canada, the terms learning disability and learning disorder (LD) refer to a group of disorders that affect a broad range of academic and functional skills including the ability to speak, listen, read, write, spell, reason, organize information, and do math.


Ali El-Maak

His interest in music began even earlier when listening to Mohamed Ahmed Sarror, Karoma and Abdallah El-Mahhi.

Baby, It's Fact

After listening to the teacher's (Mark Derwin) rant of no-one going up against jock Blake in the nominations for president, Forrest shyly waves at the girl he likes, Wendy, while she's looking in his direction.

Be-Bop-A-Lula

Davis claimed that he wrote the song with Gene Vincent after listening to the song "Don't Bring Lulu", and Vincent himself sometimes claimed that he wrote the words inspired by a comic strip, "Little Lulu".

Centre For Learning Resources

In order to improve Standards of English in government schools, CLR has set up English Resource Centres ERC in marathi medium schools across the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) which aims at improving English speaking, listening and writing skills of students and English - communication and teaching skills of teachers in these schools.

Children 18:3

On June 22, 2010, Rain's a Comin' was made available for a listening party on Jesus Freak Hideout.

Chuck Versus the Undercover Lover

Later, Chuck goes to Casey's apartment and finds him heavily drunk, listening to Neil Diamond, and enjoying a dinner of burnt Hot Pockets.

Company Matsuo

He spent two weeks in Rio de Janeiro listening to police radio with local newsmen and filming accidents and murder scenes.

Con Lo Que Cuenta Este País

The restaurant was located in an alley corner, and Chevy would always arrive in his flamboyant Volkswagen Beetle listening to loud music.

Dan Burros

At the time, he was reportedly listening to music composed by Richard Wagner.

DJ Homicide

Bullock was inspired to start DJing after listening to radio station KDAY and was briefly a member of The Alkaholiks.

E-Z Listening Disc

The album is a compilation of all but one of the tracks from Devo's two E-Z Listening Muzak Cassettes, which had been available only through Club Devo in 1981 and 1984, respectively, consisting of instrumental versions of classic Devo songs performed in the style of easy listening Muzak or New Age music.

Gary Barlow: On Her Majesty's Service

With Gary Barlow and Andrew Lloyd Webber asked to create an official single for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II, the documentary starts with them writing the melody and music of the song together, whilst also showing Gary talking to Prince Charles and discussing what The Queen would enjoy listening to in the song.

Gerhard Steinke

standards (OIRT, ITU-R, and EBU) and documents (SSF, AES) on listening tests and test rooms.

Green Tambourine

Lawrence Welk covered the song and his version appeared on the Billboard Easy Listening chart.

Howie Carr

(born January 17, 1952) is an American journalist, author, and conservative radio talk-show host based in Boston with a listening audience rooted in New England.

I'll Try Something New

Smaller hits like "What's So Good About Goodbye" and "I've Been Good To You" are included, plus three covers of the easy listening standards "I've Got You Under My Skin" written by Cole Porter, "On the Street Where You Live" from the Broadway musical My Fair Lady and "Speak Low" by Ogden Nash and Kurt Weill, on which both Smokey and Claudette Robinson sing lead.

Jack Duckworth

Jack goes home and whilst listening to a Matt Monro record which Tyrone had given him as a present, he dies in his chair and is joined by the ghost of Vera, who tells him off, yet again, for his scruffy appearance.

Jane Haining

She was arrested in April 1944 and detained by the Gestapo, accused, amongst other things, of working among Jews and listening to the BBC.

Jared C. Monti

In May, 2013, Connie Harrington, songwriter of Lee Brice's number one country hit "I Drive Your Truck," revealed that she wrote the song after listening to Monti's father, Paul, on the public radio program Here & Now.

Jedd Hughes

Hughes grew up in Quorn, where he grew up listening to his father's country records.

Jim Gilliam

On September 5, Gilliam hit a 2-run pinch triple in a road game against the Houston Astros, giving the Dodgers a 3–2 lead in the 9th inning; the Los Angeles Rams, playing a preseason game against the Philadelphia Eagles at the Coliseum, were playing so poorly despite their 10–0 win that the biggest cheer from the stands came from people listening to portable radios tuned to the Dodger game who cheered when Gilliam got the hit.

K-Ske Hasegawa

He enjoys listening to the bands Bump of Chicken, The Pillows, Number Girl, and Zazen Boys, among others, and makes references to song lyrics produced by these bands in his work.

KAJX

The station is unique in that it partners with local cultural institutions like the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Aspen Writers' Foundation, and the Aspen Institute to broadcast and re-broadcast concerts and lectures to its entire listening public.

Katie White

Katie was working in a boutique with a Chinese girl called "Ting Ting," which sounds like Mandarin Chinese for "band stand" () or "listening" (聽) and Katie used it as name for the band.

KRXV

The announcement said "Since July, you've been asking for your Vibe back on the radio 24/7. We've been listening to you... and listening... and listening... and listening... The time has come for the return of The Vibe, now with a signal that covers more area than any other Las Vegas radio station. Welcome to a bigger Vibe! Playing Today's Real Dance 24 hours a day. This is Las Vegas, the new Highway Vibe is on!" and launched with the song Feel The Vibe by Axwell.

Laurie Hernandez

Outside of Gymnastics, she loves to do Swimming as well as her nails, writing poetry and drawing and loves listening to One Direction and Ed Sheeran.

Lightnin' Slim

Slim has been cited as a major influence by several contemporary blues artists, including Captain Beefheart, who in a 1987 radio interview with Kristine McKenna, stated that Lightnin' Slim was the only artist he could recommend somebody listening to.

Luis Montalbert-Smith

His first artistic expression, her mom remarks, was dancing at the young age of one while listening to Anita Wards’ hit Ring my Bell.

New Victory Band

The New Victory Band developed a more Northerly aspect, listening to recordings of George Tremain, Ned Pearson, Adam Gray, Willie Taylor & Will Atkinson.

Our Secret Weapon

CBS had begun a shortwave listening program in September 1939, on an experimental basis, at the National Lawn Tennis Championships at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, New York.

Peter Szendy

In Sur écoute. Esthétique de l'espionnage (2007), he draws on Foucault's analysis of the Panopticon and Deleuze's Postscript on the Societies of Control in order to show how the act of listening always entails issues of power and dominion.

Pilot Speed

The first single was "Barely Listening" (the single appears in the video game NHL 07).

Popular music of Vietnam

The songwriters of the 1970s are now "easy listening" for the middle aged, while the modern TV scene is dominated by Korean- and Cantopop influenced V-pop shows like Vietnam Idol.

Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand

It showed composer Frédéric Chopin (1810–49) playing piano while writer George Sand (1804–76) sits to his right, listening and sewing (a favorite activity of hers).

Strobelite Seduction

Sunsun - Vocals ("Back On You", "I'll Never Dream" and "Are You Listening")

Swell Radio

Swell Radio is a mobile radio streaming application that learns user listening preferences based on listening behavior, community filtering, and a proprietary algorithm.

Tarek Shahin

In 2007, he wrote and animated a special feature for Al Jazeera English on its popular show, The Listening Post with Richard Gizbert.

The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

It was released by the Listening Library on 22 May 2007 and narrated by Denis O'Hare.

The Dust Busters

Walker Shepard developed a love for old-time music by listening to past voices such as Roscoe Holcomb, Gaither Carlton, Fiddlin' John Carson, and B.F. Shelton.

The Wolfgang Press

The genesis of the 1991 album Queer was listening to De La Soul's 1989 debut album 3 Feet High and Rising.

The Years

At home, Sara lies in bed reading Edward's translation of Antigone and listening to another dance down the street.

Ulvi Cemal Erkin

It was Alfred Cortot who gave him the idea of composing a piano concerto during his visit to Turkey, after listening to his Quartet.

University of Sheffield Students' Union

The Union, under its obligation as part of the NUS to provide 24-hour support for students, funds Sheffield University Nightline, a telephone and email based listening and information service run by student volunteers from the University.

Valerie Morales

After listening to a song performed by Nelly and Kelly Rowland ("Dilemma"), Morales "ended up singing lyrics she wrote to a similar melody" of the song.

Vic Maile

Peter Gunn of The Inmates recalls that just before he died Maile phoned him to say that he had been listening to his productions and concluded that "Shot in the Dark" by The Inmates was his best work.

WDDY

Ian Fleming had the main character listening to WOKO in his novel The Spy Who Loved Me

Wet the Bed

The song has been performed live at the album's listening party, as well as on Brown's F.A.M.E. Tour.

Woodhouse, Leicestershire

Beaumanor Hall, ancestral home of the Herrick family, was used as a listening station during the war.

WSRS

By 1985, WSRS evolved into more of a vocal-based easy-listening format with the instrumentals eliminated, except for hits such as "Music Box Dancer," "Chariots of Fire," "Rise" and "Summer Place."


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