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In previous months, we have given you tips and resources to get you started with your listening practice. Activities have focused on listening for specific speech sounds in words, common phrases [...]

Last month, we gave you some tips and resources to kick off your listening practice. Those activities focused on common whole words, phrases, and sentences. In this blog post we have another free [...]

Last month, we talked about the factors that affect your results with a cochlear implant. Two factors that can have a considerable impact are your motivation and active listening practice with [...]

Today’s Rehab At Home post is about using small, daily problems that come up at home to teach your child new language. We’re going to look more at how we can identify opportunities that arise [...]

Today’s Rehab At Home post is about “Acoustic Highlighting“. This is a simple technique that you can use throughout your day when talking with your child. We’re going to look more at what [...]

Today’s Rehab At Home post is about “Auditory Memory“. Although, you may not have heard of this term before, it is important as it allows us to communicate with other people in everyday life. For [...]

Today’s Rehab At Home post is about “Expansion and Extension“. This is another strategy you can use at home with your child to develop their use of spoken language. If your child is using single [...]

Today’s Rehab At Home post is about “Listening first”. This strategy is about providing your child with auditory information first, before giving visual cues—in other words, adding words to your [...]

Today’s Rehab At Home post is about rhyming. Recognising and generating rhyming words is an important skill for your child to master before learning to read and write.   Why Is Rhyming [...]

Parents of children with hearing loss are more likely to focus on teaching their child ‘concrete’ language—for example objects, actions, colors and numbers. Parents are likely to use less [...]