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Daniel
Ling was born in Wetherden, England in 1926. He trained in radar
and communication technology in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during
the 1940’s. On leaving the RAF he graduated from St. John’s
College, York, as a teacher specializing in Music Education.
During a music teaching practicum he discovered a deaf child
in his class and became interested in finding ways to teach
him. This led him to study audiology and education of the deaf
at Manchester University under Sir Alexander and Lady Ethel
Ewing. He first worked in Sheffield (1951-55). He was then appointed
Director of Deaf Education in Reading, Berks where he worked
from 1955-63 using his knowledge of technology acquired in the
RAF to build and modify hearing aids, thus to create the means
by which profoundly deaf children could be taught primarily
through hearing, learn to talk and become able to integrate
into regular school classes.
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Daniel
Ling, O.C., Ph.D. |
His research on this program was carried out initially through
the Cambridge Institute of Education and later as a Ph.D project
in the Department of Psychology of Reading University. This
early example of auditory-verbal work attracted the attention
of Sir Edward Boyle, then Minister of Education for Great
Britain, who recognised the value of having deaf children
develop fluent spoken language. He arranged for Ling’s
work to become a model for the creation of similar programmes
throughout Britain.
Moving to Montreal, Canada in 1963, Ling served as Principal
of the Montreal Oral School for the Deaf for 3 years, completed
his Ph.D degree at McGill University, Montreal in 1968 and
served for the next 21 years as director of speech and hearing
clinics in Montreal and as a professor and sometime chairman
in the Department of Communication Disorders at McGill University.
From 1984-91 he was Dean of the Faculty of Applied Health
Sciences at The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada.
Ling
has served on many national and international committees concerned
with human communication and publication. He was appointed
as a Fellow of ASHA, in the 1970’s, served as President
of the A.G. Bell Association for the Deaf in the early 1980’s
and a few years later became one of the founders of Auditory-Verbal
International (AVI). He has received numerous honors and awards
for his teaching and research including an appointment as
an Arkansas Traveler from US President Bill Clinton. He has
recently been appointed as as an Officer of the Order of Canada
in recognition of his original contributions to, and ongoing
work with, hearing impaired children and their parents internationally.
He is well known through his several books, some 250 other
publications and numerous workshops relating to the habilitation
of hearing-impaired children at home and abroad. He is currently
an independent consultant on childhood hearing impairment
and donates his time and expertise to helping hearing impaired
children in developing countries. He also makes violins and
other stringed instruments and is recognised as a world class
luthier.
Daniel Ling is married to Jane Lee, whom he met during a sabbatical
in Australia at the University of Melbourne. She has two sons,
both Australians. He also has two sons; Philip, an engineer,
and Alister, a meteorologist and astronomer both of whom are
living in Canada. |
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