Making DIY Valentine cards is an easy, effective, and well l❤️ved listening and language activity for many kids of different ages and stages.
❤️ What listening and spoken language strategies can be modeled?
Sabotage? Too bad. The lid is stuck on the glue, or the scissors are out of reach.
❤️ What are the listening and language goals?
Following directions? Critical elements? Vocabulary? Sequencing? Social Skills.
❤️ Valentine puns?
I love you beary much. Bee Mine. Owl always love you. BEE Mine!
Multiple Meaning Words And Children With Hearing Loss
🐸 Toad or Towed?
Homophones are words that sound the same as a toad 🐸 and towed 🛻-🚗 but are spelled differently and have different meanings. There are over 7700 homophones in the English language and many puns, jokes, and cartoons are based on homophones.
🐸 Children with limited vocabularies often struggle to understand and use multiple-meaning words. This negatively impacts their listening and reading comprehension.
🐸 Do you talk about contextually-based vocabulary and metacognitive skills with kids with hearing loss?
In LSL auditory verbal therapy, I offer tips and strategies for parents to help their children understand jokes and why they are funny. This expands the children’s vocabulary and grows flexible language skills like multiple-meaning words, idioms, puns. Memorizing jokes grow auditory memory skills, encourages clear speech when retelling, and builds perspective-taking and social skills.
