What’s the best way to have good listening and speaking skills? It’s to have a solid foundation built on noticing and recognizing sounds. Playing listening games is a good way to develop these basic skills.
It can be simple to practice your listening skills when you’re with an audiologist or speech language pathologist—as easy as doing the games or tasks they have prepared—but what happens when you’re not with your hearing professional? If you’re at home, what can you do? Here are some games and exercises that you can use
If you’re a teacher, one day you might be introduced to a new student who has a cochlear implant or hearing implant. Or you already have a student who is a cochlear implant recipient. Wait, what’s a cochlear implant? Why does this child have a cochlear implant? What does that mean?
Once your child has gotten through his or her school day, odds are that there will be a range of activities that he or she can do: playing sports, going out with friends, doing homework, reading, and more. With all of this going on it might be confusing to know what to do with the
Checking a child’s hearing development is done with hearing tests. These tests are commonly performed after a child is born, but what should you do after the hearing tests? This is a common question parents often ask me: What their child should be doing, and how they should be listening at a certain age? I’ve put
For any child a new activity or event is an experience, and especially for a child with a cochlear implant each new event means new sounds and experiences that may seem overwhelming. But don’t worry, there are a few ways that you can help to make their listening experience, and the whole event, comfortable and
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