Auditory Comprehension Spring Matrix Games

Spring MATRIX GAMES are grab-and-go resources for building listening and language. They are auditory comprehension tools for children with hearing loss or auditory processing difficulties.

SIX THEMED MATRIX GAMES:

1. Where am I? (Outdoor locations)

2. Spring animal babies

3. On the farm

4. Outdoor play

5. Insects

6. Colored egg hunt

YOU CAN TARGET:

Auditory attention

Auditory memory

Vocabulary

Critical elements

Descriptive language

Multi-step directions

Length of utterances (MLU)

A variety of grammatical structures

Concepts of color, size, quantity, location, time/sequence

Matrices are flexible games that can be leveled up or down to meet a child’s auditory memory, comprehension, and language goals. As a child’s skill level develops add more elaborate syntactic structures, use the keywords in sentences or within simple stories.

Here is an example how Matrix One can be played.

You’ll ❤ the matrices and all the other Spring Listening and Language games and activities!

Favorite Stories And Genres To Read With Your Child For World Book Day

🌎 April 23rd is WORLD BOOK DAY! 🌎  Explore stories from a variety of genres with your child to expand vocabulary and their depth of LSL learning. Try some of my favorite stories below.

📘 PREDICTABLE books with repetitive phrases and strong patterns like Going On A Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen are key for children learning to read.

📙 PARTICIPATION books like Clap Your Hands by Lorinda Bryan Caulery foster listening and following directions.

 📕 RHYMING books such as Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deborah Guarino target listening to sounds in words.

 📗 PICTURE books illustrations often provide information, not in the text. Encourage your child to comment and talk about illustrations in books such as Quick as a Cricket by Don and Audrey Wood.

📘 INFORMATIONAL books are non-fiction and introduce new topics. Dinosaur Bones by Bob Barner is filled with facts, rhyming text, and cool illustrations.

Tips for Building Listening and Language with Floor Puzzles

Do you use floor puzzles 🧩 in your auditory verbal sessions or lessons for children that are deaf and hard of hearing?

Well-chosen puzzles are fun, challenging, and provide a catalyst for listening and language. Choose a puzzle that offers a rich vocabulary and corresponds to a theme Work together and narrate what you are thinking.

Talk about:

🧩 the similarities between the pieces. Kids learn how things can fit into categories.

🧩 the differences while noting details in a complex picture.

🧩 Memory. I wonder where the train puzzle piece is that completes the scene? Do you remember....?

🧩 Puzzle-solving strategies that build confidence. Kids love the sense of accomplishment.

Humpty Dumpty and Leftover Easter Eggs

Do you have leftover hard-boiled eggs from Easter?

Then, try this rich Listening and Language Activity!

First, make Humpty Dumpty From an Easter egg. There is a whole listening and spoken language lesson in just making Humpty Dumpty from an egg. Be creative!

Then, act out Humpty Dumpty with the hard-boiled egg, toy horses, and a wall made from a block or box.

A few spokenlanguage targets:

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

For PRESCHOOLERS, while re-enacting Humpty Dumpty target fine auditory discrimination involving syntax such as sat/sit, fall/fell, horse/horses/ man/men.

Talk about POSITIONAL WORDS - on, off, top, bottom, under, over above, below, before, after, before, over, under, on, off.

Expand your child's vocabulary with SYNONYMS for broken - break, separate, split up, fall apart, and come apart.

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

CRITICAL THINKING and conversations can emerge while discussing how to repair HUMPTY DUMPTY.

Have fun listening and talking. We sure did!