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Twenty-seven hearing-impaired young adults with hearing potentially usable for language comprehension and a history of speech language therapy participated in this study of training in using residual hearing for the purpose of learning spoken language. Evaluation of their recalled therapy experiences indicated that listening to spoken language did not emerge as a memorable speech therapy activity for 81 percent of the subjects. This may indicate that essential listening practice was either neglected or minimized during speech language therapy. Subjects demonstrated poor listening skills (70 percent scored at chance or below on the listening task), and two-thirds reported negative feelings toward listening practice and thought that listening training would not be expected in a speech language therapy program. Study recommendations stress the need to identify clients with potentially usable aided audition and maximize their listening capabilities through training. (16 references) (DB)