As we step into 2025, I’m excited to continue supporting you by sharing my passion for Listening and Spoken Language. This year, my goal is to be a source of encouragement, providing practical tools, engaging activities, and creative games. I hope to make your work with kids who are deaf and hard of hearing a little easier—and even more rewarding.
Let me begin by sharing a story book I’ve read with little listeners each January for years.
You may think that Dream Snow By Eric Carle is a story to only be read near Christmas. Well, not me!
Dream Snow by Eric Carle - Auditory Verbal Early Intervention Lesson
❄️ Read Dream Snow all winter and target learning to listen sounds, early vocabulary of farm animals, weather, clothes, and counting.
❄️ Dream Snow tells the tale of a farmer who falls asleep and dreams of snow falling and covering each of his animals like blankets.
❄️ Can you guess what the Farmer discovers when he wakes up?
❄️ In the book, the snowy blankets are flaps that cover the farm animals. An LSL strategy is letting the child hear a sound or words BEFORE showing them the toy or object. Providing ear contact before eye contact is critical to growing a child's auditory skills.
❄️ So, peek at the hidden animal but keep it out of the child’s view. Then say the sounds, open the book’s flap or take off the blanket of snow and talk all about the animals.
❄️ Make the story interactive. Grab toy farm animals and white fabric - I use soft white interfacing material for the snowy blankets and act out the story.
❄️ On the last page, there is an opportunity to point out sounds. There is a button near the tree. Point to your ear then press the button. Surprisingly magical music plays. Say, "I hear that!" and talk about the musical sounds.
➡️ Then, during the next session review the story and expand the lesson by making Snow Dough a super soft white playdough made with just two ingredients: cornstarch & lotion. Easy yet rich listening and language building activity that kids love.
This collection is just what you need to fill your toolbox during the long cold winter season. This BUNDLE offers a stress-free way to target a variety of winter listening, language, and communication skills.
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Peace love and happiness for the new year!
Lynn