Last week we talked about how to build your child’s listening and language skills in the spring. And if you’re in the southern hemisphere, enjoying the changing colors and autumn weather, here’s what you can do to help your child. Take a Walk Outside Taking a walk outside can be a great way to introduce
Whether you’re enjoying the spring showers and sun in the Northern Hemisphere or watching the leaves turn during autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, changing seasons are great times to practice listening and extend your child’s listening skills. Go outside with your child, enjoy the changing of the season and use these activities to help build
Here are some tips from Tammy, who received bilateral cochlear implants to treat her sensorineural hearing loss. She’s had support from friends and family, and has lots of information about what you can tell your friends and family. Tammy’s Hearing Loss It’s likely an autoimmune inner ear disease caused my sensorineural hearing loss, and only
Want to build your listening and communication skills? A great and easy way to do that is with speech tracking. Speech tracking is a method of practicing and evaluating your listening skills, and can also help you and your communication partner develop more efficient methods of fixing a communication breakdown.
If you’ve got a dog, odds are that you’ll take it out for a walk quite a bit. Here are some ways that you can turn a simple walk into exciting activities to help your child develop listening and language skills. Talk about Everything As you’re walking around, talk about everything that you see or
Lots of rehabilitation exercises focus on developing language, speaking, and listening skills. These are all important skills for spoken communication, but there’s more that can be done with sound and rehabilitation. Engaging with music or playing an instrument adds more. It partially builds on some of the skills taught in rehabilitation—like understanding pitch, loudness, and
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