Tips & Tricks

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 actions, before doing them. This helps your child to build their listening skills, which are important skills for the use of spoken language and learning

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 Important? Before your child can begin to read and write, it’s important for them to develop ‘phonological awareness’— the ability to identify and

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 ‘abstract’ language. This includes things you can’t pick up or see such as thoughts, ideas, feelings and perspectives, as these may be perceived as being too

Today’s Rehab At Home post is about “temporal concepts”, or in short, “how to talk about a sequence of events”. Temporal concepts involve words such as “first” and “next”, to describe the order that events occur. If your child masters the skills to talk about temporal concepts, this will also help their early mathematical, pre-literacy

Today’s Rehab At Home post is about Theory of Mind (or ToM for short). For children with hearing loss, ToM can be challenging to master without support. In this blog post, we’ll show you how you can work on your child’s ToM while reading stories together.   What Is Theory Of Mind? Theory of Mind

Today’s Rehab At Home post is about listening to descriptions. Games that involve listening to descriptions are a great way to help build your child’s listening skills, and ultimately their language skills.   Why Should My Child Practice Listening To Descriptions? There are two main reasons why listening to descriptions is important if your child