July 4th, Fireworks and Fireflies in Auditory Verbal Therapy With Kids With Hearing Loss

THE VERY LONELY FIREFLY by Eric Carle is one of my favorite books to read with little listeners in auditory verbal intervention before the 🎇 fireworks display on the 4th of July.

Why? You wonder.

✨ It's a simple story about a very lonely firefly that goes out into the night searching for other fireflies. It sees a lantern, headlights, the eyes of a cat, and an owl ... all glowing in the darkness and then the 🎇 FIREWORKS in the sky!

✨ The book ties new vocabulary and non-fiction facts about fireflies which expands background knowledge and facilitates listening comprehension

✨ It’s great for story sequencing and kids love retelling the story with the firefly finger puppet

✨ Repetition is important for listening and language development and the sentence “The firefly saw a light and flew towards it.” and “But it was not another firefly it was a…..” repeats throughout the story.

✨ The lights of the firefly, flashlight, headlights, reflection of the cat’s eyes... and the 🎇 FIREWORKS together make connections between the story and what the child experiences on Independence Day.

If you don’t have trinkets and engaging manipulative to use in the story no worries. Beautiful stories paper props are available for free download from Kizclub.com

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Auditory Verbal Adventures - New Release Children's e-Book

Auditory Verbal Adventures: Bo Bunny and Ooby Owl Meet Friends" is a children’s book written by Charlotte Caspari and Andrie Steen with a focus on listening and spoken language development. Charlotte is a certified listening and spoken language specialist, LSLS Cert. AVT and Andrie is a Special Education Specialist.

The Auditory Verbal Therapy (AVT) approach empowers parents of hearing-impaired children to stimulate their listening and spoken language development through play and day to day activities. Reading is an essential part of this.

This charming book is beautifully illustrated and includes many early learning to listen sounds and phrases which are used in Auditory Verbal Therapy(AVT) to help stimulate listening. Both parents and professionals working with children with hearing who are deaf and hard of hearing using spoken language will find it a helpful resource at home, school, in face to face and in teletherapy sessions.