Tots are Talking19 TO 36 MONTHS

THE LISTENING AND LANGUAGE JOURNEY CONTINUES

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Parameters of Listening

Auditory Function/Learning

• AWARENESS

• PATTERNING

• IDENTIFYING

• COMPREHENSION

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Tots are Talking

Modify the Activity – Scaffolding

• Make it easier

• Make it more difficult

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Increasing the Difficulty of Closed Set Tasks

• familiar vocabulary……..less familiar• quiet environment………noisier environment• small # of items in set…...increase number• prompts………………….fewer prompts• acoustic highlighting…….typical patterns• one item memory………..increased # of items• simple structures………..complex structures• live voice……………..….taped voice

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More Audible Less Audible

No background noise Increased noise

6” from devise Increased distance

Slightly slower rate Normal rate

Increased pitch/rhythm Normal rhythm

Clear speech Less clear/unfamiliar

Increased repetition No repetition

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More Audible Less Audible

Varied Acoustic Contrast Less Varied

Short Phrases Complex Sentences

Emphasis on Key Words No Emphasis

Word Position in Sentence End, middle, Beginning

Closed Set Bridge Set Open Set

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Parameters of Listening

• CLOSED SET TASKS – giving them all the choices visually

• BRIDGE SET TASKS – all choices may not be visible

• OPEN SET TASKS – endless stimuli

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Parameters of Listening

Input

• SOUNDS/PHONEME LEVEL• WORD LEVEL

• PHRASES• SENTENCES

• CONVERSATION/DISCOURSE LEVEL

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Parameters of Listening

Context – How and Where

STRUCTURED

ROUTINE

REAL WORLD – NATURALISTIC

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Parameters of Listening

ROUTINE ACTIVITES

Activities associated with predictable language

• Getting Dressed

• Changing diapers

• Meal Time

• Going outside

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Parameters of Listening

NATURALISTIC INTERACTIONS

THIS IS OUR ULTIMATE GOAL -

ABILITY TO USE THEIR AUDITORY SKILLS IN THEIR EVERYDAY

INTERACTIONS

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Parameters of Listening

AUDITORY LEARNING DEVELOPS

IN NATURALISTIC SETTINGS with

HELP FROM SOME STURCTURE LEARNING SETTINGS

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Tots are Talking

• Opposites• Function• Prepositions• Action Words• Pronouns• Negatives• Description

• /wh/ question forms• Sequencing• Categorization• Cause/ effect• Simple riddles• Conversation

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Where’s Spot ?www.interlinkbooks.com

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Tots are Talking

What goes in the:• sky

• water • tree• park

• desert

• Dirty baby• Play doctor• Trace their body• Charades• Dress ups• What’s missing• Tea party

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Tots are Talking

• Book Sharing

• Stories with Props

• Fairly Tales & Nursery Rhymes

• Are you My Mother?

• Teddy Bear Teddy Bear Turn Around

• Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?

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Auditory Memory

The ability to process spoken conversation and partake on the

discourse level is highly dependent on auditory memory.

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Auditory Memory

• Auditory memory of two items

• Follows a two-step direction

• Conjunction /and/ with hand cue

• Following direction games

• /not/ with a head shake

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Auditory Memory

NOUN PLUS NOUN• Can you get the car and the bus

ADJECTIVE PLUS NOUN• I want the big spoon

• NOUN AND PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE• Put the baby in the bed

• NOUN AND VERB• Tell Mommy to sit down

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Conversation

• Maintains appropriate eye contact

• Uses natural gestures and facial expression to enhance message

• Takes conversational turn as speaker

and listener

• Starts speaking with appropriate timing

• Increases the number of exchanges

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CONVERSATIONAL FRAMEWORK

Let’s play with the…vs. Oh no my baby is so cold let’s get her dressed

• MIXED UP TOYS

• CLOTHING

• NEW TOY

• I LOVE THIS GAME…..

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Conversation

Suggestions to get started:

• Put a band aid on you and talk about your boo boo

• Wear a fun accessory

• Share family photos

• Experience Book

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Conversation

EXPERIENCE BOOKS

• Use a sentence to describe event

• May share very simple events

• Will evolve as child’s language becomes more complex

• Use to reinforce key vocabulary words and language structures

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BACKGROUND NOISE

Recognizes stimuli with increasing distances in all directions with added

background noise

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LING 6 SOUND TEST

• Prepares Child for Audiological Testing and CI Programming

• A quick way to verify that a child detects the vowel and consonant sounds of spoken language LING, 2002

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LING 6 SOUND TEST

SOUND CONDITIONING

• Dropping an object into the container

• Identifying the sounds

• Introduce distance

• Carry over into the booth

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LING 6 SOUND TEST

Allows professionals and parents to know the distance hearing or earshot of the

child.

All vowels and consonants should be detected out to 25 feet and beyond with

cochlear implants.Flexer, 2008

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CONDITIONED RESPONSEQuick and Easy

Teach the Task

• Model with the parent

• Begin visually with a clicker

• Move to auditory response

• Introduce Ling’s 6 sounds

• Have child identify the 6 sounds

• Increase Distance

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