Acoustic highlighting is a great strategy to help when you’re teaching your child new vocabulary. Put simply, you put emphasis on a specific word when you are saying it in a phrase or sentence to make it stand out from the rest of the message.
When your child is first learning to put words together, it can be tempting to use simple words or sentences with them. Through using language strategies such as expansion and extension, you can encourage your child to learn new language.
Check out these simple strategies for active reading to build your child’s reading comprehension. These strategies can be applied to any book or story. So, choose a book with a subject that your child is interested in.
Children learn language by listening and engaging with the world around them. This can be through environmental sounds, overhearing voices, and talking and interacting with other people. Used in a controlled way, smartphones and tablets are a great additional tool for your developing your child’s spoken language skills—their vocabulary, speaking and listening abilities. This everyday
Supporting a child with hearing loss can sometimes bring big life changes for the entire family. In this guest post, Deborah shares how her family packed up their life and moved across Brazil, to give her son with hearing loss the best rehabilitation possible. Deborah’s 10-year-old son Alexandre received his first cochlear implant in 2008,
Have you ever wanted to hear straight from another parent about what it’s like for your child to be hearing for the first time? Mothers know best, as they say! Meet Chelsea, whose one-year-old son Elijah is a bilateral cochlear implant recipient. Chelsea first wrote for the MED-EL Blog a few weeks ago about how
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