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Rehab At Home: How Can I Teach My Child About Thoughts And Feelings?
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
Rehab At Home: Why Should I Talk To My Child About “First” And “Next”?
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
Rehab At Home: What Is Theory Of Mind?
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
Rehab At Home: Why Should My Child Practice Listening To Descriptions?
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
Rehab At Home: What Is The Ling Six Sound Test?
Today’s Rehab At Home post is about the Ling Six Sound Test. The Ling Test is a simple activity you can do each morning to check your child can hear all of the sounds of speech with their cochlear implant, or other hearing device. We recommend that you add the Ling Six Sound test to your routine every morning to make sure your child starts their day ready to listen, speak and learn using their hearing implants!
Develop Your Child’s Math Skills By Icing (And Eating!) Biscuits
The best rehab activities are the ones that are fun too! In this special guest post, Emma Burton from Auditory Verbal UK shows how you can teach basic math vocabulary to your child with a cochlear implant—and have fun baking together at the same time. Auditory Verbal UK is also currently the focus of the