Oh Dear! I Cannot Hear! Celebrating Dr. suess’s Birthday March 2nd

I often use this Dr. Suess quote as an introduction when presenting at school in-services for children in my LSL auditory verbal caseload. It's an ice-breaker that teachers, administrators, staff, and parents all relate to and come together over their love of Dr. Suess. It launches the discussion of each of our roles in helping the child with hearing loss have auditory access at school and helping classmates understand hearing loss.

Oh dear, oh dear! I cannot hear.

Will you please come over near?

Will you please look in my ear?

There must be something there, I fear.

Say look! A bird was in your ear.

But he is out. So have no fear.

Again your ear can hear, my dear.

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish is a book written by Dr. Seuss in 1960.

Deanna at Listening Fun shares Teacher In-service Training Tips. She is an Itinerant Teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and also an Auditory Verbal Ed. Mentee. Learn from Deanna at ListeningFun.com

Pamela Talbot, M.Ed, CCC-SLP, C.E.D, LSLS-Cert AVT offers a recorded PowerPoint, Mainstreaming a Child With Hearing Loss: This one-hour recorded presentation was created to in-service members of a school team who work with a student with hearing loss who is learning through listening and spoken language.

Pam is a dear long-term friend of mine who holds certification as a Listening and Spoken Language Specialist/Auditory Verbal Therapist. Pamela is recognized as a global consultant, presenter, and professional trainer in the fields of language development, parent training, hearing loss, cochlear implants, and aural habilitation. Learn from Pam at LanguageLaunchers.com

Deanna and Pam are fellow authors of games, activities, and resources for children with hearing loss and the professionals that love them at TeachersPayTeachers.com

10 Sound Test Ling-Madell-Hewitt For Monitoring Listening

The LMH 10 Sound Test For Monitoring Listening
Joan Hewitt AuD FAAA, CCC-A, TOD
Jane Madell Ph.D., FAAA, CCC-A/SLP, LSLS Cert AVT

Hearing technology has improved significantly since the advent of the Ling 6 Sound Test (2006). Joan Hewitt and Jane Madell recommend adding four consonant sounds /n/, /h/, /z/, and /dj/ to better cover the Low, Middle, and High frequencies. The LMH Test screens the low, mid, and high frequencies to get a better idea of a child’s speech perception.

L ➼ Ling - Low
M ➼ Madell - Mid
H ➼ Hewitt - High

The goal of the LMH Test and all speech perception measures is to determine what a child is hearing and what they are missing. The information can then be used by the audiologist to adjust technology settings to provide better access to frequency bands not being perceived. Speech perception and production need to be monitored regularly to identify consistent errors patterns and then management.

Children who are deaf and hard of hearing must have excellent access to sound or hear very well with their technology if they are going to be able to use listening to learn spoken language and develop good literacy skills.

Learn More: 
The HearingHealthMatters.org The LMH Test For Monitoring Listening – Jane Madell and Joan Hewitt

Red Flags: Identifying Barriers to Optimal Auditory Development - Fall 2021. Hearing First Learning Experience  facilitated by Joan HewittAuD FAAA, CCC-A, TOD and Jane MadellPhD, FAAA, CCC-A/SLP, LSLS Cert AVT

Relax Enjoy Summer - Listening And Spoken Language Activities For Kids With Hearing Loss

Listen, Riddle & Rhyme is a mini-lesson and a competitive game that uses the excitement of summer while players build auditory skills, solve riddles with rhyming clues and learn summertime vocabulary. 

The object of the game is for kids to:
- Listen to a category clue. (e.g., a biting insect)
- Listen to a rhyming word clue. (e.g., burrito)
- Auditorily recall both clues, process, think and then name a related summer word.
(A biting insect that rhymes with burrito is a mosquito.) 🦟

Summer fun that targets
☀️ word knowledge
☀️ categories
☀️ rhyming
☀️ listening for details
☀️ inferences
☀️ critical thinking
☀️ auditory processing
☀️ auditory closure
☀️ auditory memory
☀️ auditory comprehension

Try this riddle!
Listen and think of a summer drink that rhymes with 🍋 lemonade? 
You got it! 🦻🏽 A hearing aid!

🌴 Relax. 🍹 Enjoy Summer. ⛱️ LSL Resources Ready To Go!
Listen and Draw At The Pool
Summer Idioms Listen and Learn
Summer Vocabulary Flexible Language Game
Summer Auditory Comprehension Listen, Search & Find Games
Buzz Off! Listening, Language and Vocabulary Builder 5 Games In One
Self-Advocacy Scenarios - Turning Lemons Into Lemonade
Summer Auditory Skills Summer - No Prep Found Sounds - Outdoor Listening
Four Auditory Comprehension Listen, Search & Find Games For Summer

Learning To Listen Posters For Kids That Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Do you work with children who are deaf and hard of hearing? Check out the Learning to Listen posters or reference charts of the Learning to Listen sounds, words, and phrases.

Learning To Listen Sounds
1. Object Associations Twenty animals and ten vehicles
2. English Vowels  Thirteen English vowels and four diphthongs
3. Actions and Adjectives  Forty-five early actions and ten adjectives

I hope my Listen With Lynn resources are making your therapy sessions or school lessons effective and easier so you can work smarter not harder!  Thank you for following my growing suite of Listening and Spoken Language resources, tools, and activities.

Sing With Me Thanksgiving Listen | Sing | Play

Sing With Me - Thanksgiving includes 10 language-rich songs for children with and without hearing loss. Music and singing are fabulous tools for coaching parents and caregivers while helping lay the foundation for listening and spoken language.

Music and singing is a fabulous tool for coaching parents and caregivers while helping lay the foundation for listening and spoken language. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to sing, sing and sing some more even if they can't carry a tune. For some, this comes naturally. For others, including music and singing in daily routines and activities is challenging.

Make music part of each day. Children love hearing the sound of their loved ones voices and the time spent together. Be playful, silly, and have fun together! Sing traditional songs, nursery and action rhymes like “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”, “Itsy Bitsy Spider” and “The Wheels on the Bus”. Make up songs like "Good Morning To You" to a familiar tune like the (Happy Birthday). Sing popular songs, seasonal songs, Sunday school songs and songs from the family's heart language.

These Thanksgiving songs expose children to new words and concepts that build language and the foundation for learning to read. Songs and music provide opportunities for children to improve auditory skills, memory for words and builds vocabulary. Music helps children perceive speech sounds accurately and develop clear speech with natural melody and inflection.

What's Included?

10 Thanksgiving Songs For Children

• 8.5 x 5.5-inch songs sheets for printing

• Full-size versions of the song sheets for use in teletherapy or in-person sharing.

• Printable finger puppets and props

• Listening and Spoken Language (LSL) tips to encourage auditory learning.