BUZZ OFF! VOCABULARY BUILDER - 5 GAMES IN

 
 
 

Teletherapy | Distance Learning | At Home 

Buzz Off is five listening and spoken language vocabulary building games in one! They are all large closed-set listening activities that can be played with one child or up to four players. Buzz Off is loved by families at home, perfect for distance learning, teletherapy, and in therapy sessions and classrooms. Buzz Off can be printed or the PDF can be played on an iPad, computer or teletherapy platform. 

Buzz Off involves every player on every move. The bright, honeycombed playing boards are full of playful images that children find engaging. Children listen and find pictures in an attempt to make a continuous path of markers from one side of their game board to the other: Blue to Blue, Yellow to Yellow or Green to Green. One of the fun things about playing Buzz Off is that strategy may change based on listening to the other players’ choices. 

Listening and spoken language games that target:

🐝 Game 1: Auditory Identification

🐝 Game 2: Auditory Memory

🐝 Game 3: Auditory Association

🐝 Game 4: Categories

🐝 Game 5: Critical Thinking

No Print Version

✅ Distance Learning

✅ Teletherapy

✅ Family fun game at home

Print Version

✅ Individual therapy sessions

✅ School-based lessons

✅ Small and mixed groups

✅ Family fun

Watch playing Buzz Off during a teletherapy session. A playing card is marked with a red pen free annotation tool.

BUZZ OFF played in a thetherapy session by sharing the screen and using the pen annotation tool to mark off the game card. No Print - No Prep!

Guess the Secret Object - Listening, Thinking & Reasoning Skills

Guess the Secret Object targets auditory memory, comprehension and processing skills. Kids love to make guesses while building their listening, critical thinking and reasoning skills. For each secret object, the child is categorizing and analyzing information, making inferences, and drawing conclusions. The goal is to make logical guesses and identify all 32 secret objects by listening to the four clues presented one by one through hearing alone. Each of the clues gets increasingly more specific.

Once the secret object is revealed the next activity is for the child to remember and use each of the clues to clearly describe the object in connected speech. Thereby stretching their auditory memory, building vocabulary and descriptive language skills.

 
 

Print and No-Print Versions

 
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See Guess My Secret Object ready to play on an iPad

 

A Versatile resource that checks ✅ all the boxes.

✅ Targets Multiple Listening and Spoken Language Goals

No Print Version

✅ Distance Learning

✅ Teletherapy

✅ Family fun game at home

Print Version

✅ Individual therapy sessions

✅ School-based lessons

✅ Small and mixed groups

✅ Family fun

This extensive 84-page resource includes:

  • No Print: The game can be used on a computer, iPad, or teletherapy platforms using PDF reader apps. A cue to listen slide is included between each Secret Object so the clues can be presented and the game played through hearing alone.

  • Print Version: This resource includes printable game cards. Fold the game cards in half with the Secret Object on one side and the clues on the other 

  • Game Play Listening and Spoken Language Tips

  • A Script with scaffolding strategies to help the child recall details and put them all together for comprehension.

  • Handout with the Clues for the 32 Secret Objects

This is a versatile game to be played with one child, with others taking turns or on teams. It is loved by families at home, perfect for distance learning and in therapy sessions and classrooms.

Telepractice and Listening and Spoken Language - Auditory Verbal Practice

When the COVID-19 Pandemic began, our way of communicating with others shifted dramatically — more on video conferencing, more on phone calls. So many asking about How does telepractice work for LSL intervention?

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Listening and spoken language intervention focuses on guiding and coaching families to be their child’s first and most important teacher. It helps families understand and use LSL strategies and techniques in their regular daily routines. Creating an auditory-focused life will help children who are deaf and hard of hearing learn to listen, use spoken language, learn to read, be successful in school and life.

Auditory verbal professionals can use teletherapy to coach families to understand and include LSL strategies into daily life. Telepractice is a wonderful opportunity to maximize the child’s home environment and grow parents’ confidence and understanding in teaching their child each and every day at home.

Listening and spoken language intervention focuses on guiding and coaching families to be their child’s first and most important teacher. It helps families understand and use LSL strategies and techniques in their regular daily routines. Creating an auditory-focused life will help children who are deaf and hard of hearing learn to listen, use spoken language, learn to read, be successful in school and life.

Auditory verbal professionals can use teletherapy to coach families to understand and include LSL strategies into daily life. Telepractice is a wonderful opportunity to maximize the child’s home environment and grow parents’ confidence and understanding in teaching their child each and every day at home.

HearingFirst.com has comprehensive resources and tools for professionals who are planning to deliver telepractice to children and their families.  Follow Hearing First, then you can read and obtain infomation about teletherapy Register for the Professional Learning community or the Parent to Parents Support Community to colloborate with others on this important topie.

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