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In previous months, we have given you tips and resources to get you started with your listening practice. Activities have focused on listening for specific speech sounds in words, common phrases and sentences. The topic of this post is ‘Speech Tracking’. What Is Speech Tracking? Speech tracking is a good activity for all recipients, wherever

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

Whether it is breakfast, lunch, or dinner, fruit salad is a delicious snack for many of us! You can use the task of preparing the fruit salad as a useful activity to teach your child new words! Doing this task together helps to build your child’s language skills, and trains their motor skills at the

Listening and spoken language skills are critical skills for life. Developing clear speech will allow your child to communicate with others through language, and express themselves in sharing their ideas, concerns and thoughts. Here are our 7 tips for encouraging your child’s speech development. Firstly, let’s define speech—which is different to language. When someone is

Once your child has their cochlear implant and can hear their own voice, they will begin to play with making their first sounds. This is the perfect time to encourage your child to learn and make new sounds, which will lead to making their first words! We posted about the Four Stages of Building Your