Auditory Egg Hunt With Localization Goals For Children That Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

 
 

Auditory Egg Hunt with eggs that talk and call out* to give hints of their hiding spots.

Here's how to play:
➼ Hide the noise-making toy eggs.
➼ Ask, WHAT do you hear?
➼ Then, WHERE is the sound is coming from?

✧ Keep the choices simple. "Do you hear the sound near the windows or closer to the fireplace?"
✧ It is so much easier to "look and find" so this Little Listener chose to wear the no-peeking mask. He found all the eggs by localizing and through hearing alone. ❤ This took practice and is a challenging task for many.

Sound Localization
The ability to localize sounds develops over time. The earlier your child has received their bilateral cochlear implants/hearing aids, the sooner they will start picking up sound cues and gains valuable experiences localizing sounds.

Tips For Children Learning To Locate Sound Sources

- Using two different musical toys, hidden from the child’s view, locating one to the left of the child and one to the right side of the child. Then, make a sound with each instrument in varied sequence, ask your child to identify which instrument is on which side. You can do this with Mom's vs. Dad's voice as well.

- At the dinner table or while playing games help your child locate who is speaking. Your entire family can help the child learn to locate and follow the natural flow of conversation.

- Playing hide-and-seek indoors (e.g. room or house), hiding yourself, and calling out to your child to find you. This task may be varied by taking turns between hiding and searching

- Games in a group, such as “Blindman’s Buff ” or “I Spy” (with sounds), and hand-clapping games are ideal for practicing sound localization in a playful way.

Safety and Sound Localization

Teach your child that is deaf or hard of hearing to be extra alert visually in crowds, walking near cars, crossing streets, riding bicycles, and in group games. Remind your child to look for traffic and not to depend on hearing oncoming vehicles. If your child rides a bicycle, consider rear-view mirrors to help him see traffic he might not hear.

Localization GOAL with Benchmarks
GOAL: Child will auditory locate with bilateral cochlear implants or hearing aids:
- a sound presented at ear level within a 3-foot radius in front or on either side
- a sound presented at ear level within a 6-foot radius from behind
- understand and verify gross, environmental, music, or speech sounds within 9 feet, then 12 feet, and finally, within the same room in all directions.
- Understand sounds with a specific location or direction outside.

* JoJo & Friends Electronic Easter Egg Hunt by Ouaps Company

April Fool’s Pranks Create A Reason For Kids To Think, Listen and Talk For Kids With Hearing Loss

 
 

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Show the world your true covers! The color of your processors changes with your moods.
This April Fools joke never gets old.

Today is one of my favorite therapy days for listeners of all ages. April Fool’s Day creates a reason for your child to think, listen and talk.
Put your toddler in a bathtub with no water or give them a juice box without a straw.
Read a book upside down to your preschooler or serve ice cream sundaes for dinner. April Fools!
Silly faces, peekaboo, and unexpected tickles connect toddlers and parents. Funny business, like silly words to a song or wearing underwear as a hat tickles a child’s sense of humor.

Kid’s get a kick out of talking about silly situations. Slapstick humor leads to understanding riddles, knock-knock jokes, puns, and even sarcasm for older kids. Humor is evidence of brain development and growing listening, spoken language, and social skills.

Snag these FREE riddles and jokes for all 12 months of the year!

 
 

Listening Directions The Auditory Verbal Way for Kids that Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

 
 

If you know me it's safe to say I am not a fan of worksheets of contrived directions that ask the listener to draw a green circle around the blue box. UGH!

This is how we do it in my LSL auditory verbal sessions!

Real-life fun directions that to level up and down while playing together, learning spring vocabulary, listening to natural connected speech, and take turns giving the directions to create an Easter scene.

Funny Bunny and Spring Games For Kids With Hearing Loss

 
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Do you have a favorite spring game? Who doesn’t love playing FUNNY BUNNY by Ravensburger? Bunnies race to the juicy carrot at the top of the hill. Watch out! The rabbits unexpectantly fall down their burrow and disappear. Great motivating game for reinforcement.

➼ ➼ I asked for followers to share their favorite spring game in the comments. Here’s what you replied on the GRAM.

 
 
 
 

Putting Humpty Dumpty Together Again With Kids That Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

 
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Many traditional rhymes, like Humpty Dumpty and Jack and Jill, contain repetition which makes it easy for children with hearing loss to remember words and how they go together. Learning rhymes, fingerplays, poems, and songs are important for developing listening and language skills but also thinking skills, and early literacy skills.
Each spring near Easter, I target listening and spoken language goals using Humpty Dumpty. Together with the parents, the child learns to act out the nursery rhyme with fun toys, books, crafts, and props.

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Listening and Spoken Language Targets:

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

For preschoolers we often
- Focus on concepts that require fine auditory discrimination involving syntax such as sat/sit, fall/fell, horse/horses/ man/men.
- Talk about positional words (e.g. on, off, above, below, after, before, over, under,).
- Expand vocabulary with synonyms for broken such as break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart.
- Have conversations and build critical thinking skills while discussing how to fix poor HUMPTY DUMPTY and sometimes try tape and bandaids.
- Talk about HUMPTY DUMPTY'S changing emotions throughout the rhyme - happy, frightened, sad, hurt, disappointed.

A Classic - Hard-Boiled Humpty Dumpty

 
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Kids love acting out HUMPTY DUMPTY by first decorating a hard-boiled egg. We sing and talk about the nursery rhyme with a shoebox wall, toy horses, and a few king's men. This is a Listen With Lynn™ auditory verbal classic activity that grown kids remember and talk about for years to come.

Humpty Dumpty Favorite Activities To Try

There are countless games and activities to include when targeting nursery rhymes. Each spring near Easter we have fun listening and talking with Humpty Dumpty. The only downfall is that families report that many of the dyed Easter eggs become Humpty Dumpty then fall, break, and cannot be repaired.

Here are links to some of my favorite activities:
HERE is a printable HUMPTY DUMPTY with story props, a mini-book, and rhyming words.

 
 

Above is a FREE App: Rhymes for Tots by Emantras that includes putting broken toys together again!
Try a simple listening and language craft and make HUMPTY DUMPTY out of a yogurt container.
My friend and colleague Dave Sindrey M.Cl.Sc., LSLS Cert. AVT has a printable Humpty Dumpty Game that kids love. Grab it HERE or at TheListeningRoom.com hosted by Advanced Bionics and Phonak.