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
If your child has cochlear implants, you should be familiar with aural rehabilitation, or rehab. Your child probably has regular appointments with a rehab specialist, to learn how to listen and speak with their new implants. But how can you practice these skills at home? Get your inspiration from Rehab At Home.
Children learn language through overhearing the language used around them, and then they use that language in their play. However for a child with a hearing loss, hearing from a distance and when there is background noise is more difficult, and so they might not hear other people’s conversations as clearly. By encouraging your child’s pretend play skills, you will help to develop their language skills, social skills and theory of mind.
Barrier games are a group of games that require communication between two or more players to solve a puzzle or to create matching pictures or scenes. The rules are simple and the games are fun so they are perfect for motivating your child to practise their listening and speaking skills with their cochlear implant, or
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