It's Mother Goose Day So Celebrate!

 Hey, Diddle Diddle is a classic rhyme but how does a dish run away with the spoon?

 It doesn’t matter! Mother Goose characters and songs are just fun! 

Babies love to be bounced to the rhythm of Giddy-up Horsey.

 A toy spider makes Itsy Bitsy Spider come alive for toddlers.

 Hunt for dog bones while learning Old Mother Hubbard.

Act out Humpty Dumpty with a hard-boiled egg and toy horses.

Humpty Dumpty in Auditory Verbal Therapy

Children first learn to follow intonation patterns then imitate actions, repeat main words and soon start singing.  Remember to use hearing first. Start a song before showing your child the motions.  Then, say the first line of a rhyme such as Jack and Jill went up a ... or Twinkle, Twinkle little.... Pause and lean in with an expectant look. Encourage your child to respond by singing the next words. 

Older children can play a game with matching pictures or toys.  Clue your child to listen and then slowly recite the nursery rhyme. Pause at a keyword that has a matching toy or picture card.  Nursery Rhyme puzzles work great for this task. Each time your child hears one of the keywords, they can hold up that toy or card.

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 Do you know Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and the Alphabet Song share the same tune? Hum this tune while your child listens. Here is the challenge, can they identify the song words with the matching melody?

Learning Listening and Spoken Language Through Daily Routines at Home

This printable handout can be found HERE. It is from John Tracy Clinic's blog with Ideas and Advice for Parents of Children with Hearing Loss. I often share this article with my AV families and many have found it a great reminder in the midst of their day to day lives.

Humpty Dumpty in Auditory Verbal Therapy

Activities that involve music, singing and rhyming are natural and enriching for all children,

 and especially for children with cochlear implants/hearing aids who are listening and using spoken language. Incorporate music throughout your  day. Sing songs and act out finger plays.

Click HERE for  printable HUMPTY DUMPTY story props, a minibook and rhyming words.

Acting out HUMPTY DUMPTY with a hard-boiled egg is a fun and learning to listen activity.

 There is a whole lesson in making a Humpty Dumpty egg. 

A few Spoken Language Targets:

For toddlers, focus on "more", "uh-oh", "sit down", "fall down" "broken" talk about the horses and more.

For preschoolers, some concepts to introduce while reading Humpty Dumpty are those, which require fine auditory discrimination involving syntax such as sat/sit, fall/fell, horse/horses/ man/men. 

You may also choose to talk about positional words (e.g. above, below, after, before, over, under, on, off).

Expand your child's vocabulary for broken with synonyms such as - break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart.

Critical thinking and conversations can emerge while discussing how to repair HUMPTY DUMPTY.

Talk about HUMPTY DUMPTY'S changing emotions throughout the rhyme - happy, frightened, sad, hurt, disappointed.

Check out this free App: Rhymes for Tots by Emantras 

 that also includes putting broken toys together again!

HERE is a easy an experiential listening and language craft that involves making

 HUMPTY DUMPTY out of a yogurt container.


 My friend and colleague Dave Sindrey has  offered a 

printable Humpty Dumpty Game that 

your children/students will love. Grab it HERE! 

Dave Sindrey is a SLP and a Cert. Auditory-Verbal Therapist. 

Dave’s site is http://www.speechtree.ca/. He is the creator of the Listening Room, which 

provides hundreds of free activities for parents and professionals working with children who 

have hearing loss.


http://www.hearingjourney.com/Listening_Room/index.cfm?langid=1

Have fun listening and talking. We sure did!