Early Listening SkillsThis practical and comprehensive manual, for professionals working with pre-school children or the older special-needs child, offers more than 200 activities in a format designed to be photocopied for use in the classroom or for carers. It covers the basic auditory skills needed before meaning can be attached to sound. It deals with more advanced abilities including sound recognition and auditory sequencing. It includes materials on auditory detection, discrimination, recognition, sequencing and memory. It describes listening projects and topics for the curriculum. It includes activity sheets for parents. |
Contents
EARLY LISTENING SKILLS Contents Acknowledgements Introduction | |
Discovering Sound SECTION 2 Exploring Soundmakers | |
Sound or Silence? | |
Simple Discrimination | |
Sound Recognition | |
Finding Sound | |
Fine Discrimination | |
Rhythm Sequencing | |
Listening to Speech | |
Listening Skills in the School Curriculum | |
Holiday Projects | |
Listening Resources | |
Everyday Sounds Soundmakers | |
Further Reading | |
Resources | |
Auditory Memory | |
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Activities for Home Activities for School allowed to respond animal sounds Ask the child Ask the children Ask your child beat bell blindfolded child is allowed child to find child’s speech chime bars Choose clock clothes copy different sounds doll doll’s doll’s house dolly drum everyday sounds example farm games will help glockenspiel help the child help your child hide Home Sounds hoop-la Human Sounds increase the complexity increase the number Instruments TEACHING ACTIVITY introduce a delay Introduction MUSICAL language therapist/clinician Let the child listening activities listening game listening skills lotto loud sound matching Mothercare Musical Instruments ACTIVITIES Musical Instruments TEACHING noise Nursery Activities papier-mâché Plasticine play this game quiet sounds rhythm School or Nursery sequence Sequencing Musical shakers Show the child Sounds & SOUNDMAKERS speech and language Talk tambourine tape Teaching Activity Activities therapist/clinician or teacher Toys and Materials wooden spoon words and phrases