10 Self-Advocacy tips for Kids with Hearing Loss - Free Download

Download the free self-advocacy tips I use with school-age kids! I created these tips to foster communication success in children that are deaf and hard of hearing who use listening and spoken language. They are the basis for the popular self-advocacy games and activities that you can check out in my Listen With Lynn TpT store.

You'll love all these resources! Check them out now!
SELF-ADVOCACY Tips For Communication Success (Free)
SELF-ADVOCACY The 5 L's For Listening (Free)
SELF-ADVOCACY BLUFFING Never Have I Ever Activity
SELF-ADVOCACY THIS OR THAT Activity
SELF-ADVOCACY Role Play Real-Life Connections
SELF-ADVOCACY Scenarios At Group Gatherings & Celebrations
SELF-ADVOCACY Sinister The Bad Listener
SELF-ADVOCACY Scenarios - Turning Lemons Into Lemonade
SELF-ADVOCACY Perk Up Your Ears (Ear-related sayings and idioms)
SELF-ADVOCACY Listen & Draw Directions

Stay Warm While Playing in the Snow in AVT

Brrrrr—it's a blustery day with about 10 inches of snow here in Chicagoland. Our dog Jade loves the snow as much as our grandsons. When I head out to face the winter weather I wear gloves. I wish I could say the same for these boys.

If they can’t stay out and play we play, listen and learn in the snow while staying warm. The boys believe I have the most magical winter mini-toys. The children receiving auditory verbal therapy couldn’t agree more. Please don’t tell my grandsons but this is an activity I’ve included in therapy way before they were born.

We fill a bin with packing styrofoam peanuts and two little shovels from the summer sandbox. Then, I hide the toys one by one under the “snow”. The child listens to a description through hearing alone.
They think and make a guess. If correct they use the snow shovel to uncover the winter-themed toys buried in the snow. The vocabulary grows and well as the exciting back and forth conversations.

Reading aloud P. D. Eastman and Roy McKie’s Snow book shares the kind of fun only a wintry-white day can bring from snowball fights and skiing to fort building and snowman-making. The youngest listeners listen and learn from my favorite author Anne Rockwell and the story, The First Snowfall .