Any child—even one who has a cochlear implant—can learn multiple languages. Here are a few things you can do to help your child with a cochlear implant develop strong language skills in multiple languages.
Any child—even one who has a cochlear implant—can learn multiple languages. Here are a few things you can do to help your child with a cochlear implant develop strong language skills in multiple languages.
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 your routine every morning to make sure your child starts their day ready to listen, speak and learn using their hearing implants!
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.
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