![]() Simon SaysĪ classic game that has been played for generations, and for good reason! This game is fun but also helps kids to hone their listening skills. Here a few games you can play with your children to practice listening. Practice listening to both quiet and normal volume speech and environmental sounds. Provide opportunities for your children to practice listening and tune into different sounds at home. ![]() Allow your child the listening processing time he or she may need. Get your child’s attention, slow your speech down, and pause frequently. Most adults speak much faster than what most children can process. Young children don’t have this filtering ability (their auditory brains haven’t developed that yet). When you are giving them key information like directions for homework, or chores to do – get closer to your child, turn off the Pandora, Netflix or other auditory distrations.Īdults can block out the background noises in their listening environment while someone is speaking to them. Younger children especially need a quieter environment and less distance from you to hear, listen and process what you are saying. Where does Listening happen in your home? Maybe your child’s listening environment needs a change. Second facilitate growing your child’s listening skills to improve communication and learning. Want to do something to improve communicating with your child at home?įirst, rule out hearing loss and have your child’s hearing tested by an audiologist. Listening has to do with the brain’s auditory system development. To summarize ~ Hearing is the way to get the sounds and speech into the brain.Did you know children can’t listen like adults because their auditory (brain) systems aren’t fully developed until they are teenagers? (Yes, I know, teenagers don’t listen either but that is due to other reasons then what this blog is about!).Did you know you hear with your brain? The ears are just a way in!.When your child is watching a cartoon and you ask her to wash her hands and come and eat and your child ignores you, is she really ignoring you? Are you frustrated how communication is happening at your home? Here are some things to consider.
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