Environmental Sounds Home Listening Activity for Hearing Loss DHH

by Stacy Crouse

Price: 500 points or $5 USD

Subjects: speech,hearingAndAudiology,listeningSkills,earlyIntervention,expressiveLanguage

Grades: 14,13,1

Description: Provide tons of language and listening opportunities for children with hearing loss using this Boom Card activity! Interactive elements such as REAL sounds within a home & movable pieces keep students engaged while you can target language and auditory skills. Bright, colorful pictures and built-in audio help TEACH students the sounds of items in 8 different rooms within a house (bathroom, kitchen, etc.). Then, students PRACTICE discriminating the sounds using picture scenes with movable household items. Use this deck in so many ways across your typically hearing or deaf and hard of hearing caseload: ✅ Practice auditory skills including DETECTION and DISCRIMINATION of REAL environmental sounds in speech therapy or auditory verbal therapy. ✅ Model and elicit imitation of EARLY LANGUAGE using Learning to Listen sounds/exclamatory words. ✅ EXPAND LANGUAGE and VOCABULARY related to the rooms, items, and sounds within a house. With 8 sets of sounds/picture scenes included, you'll be able to use this one resource across multiple sessions. Assign the deck to parents to use at home with their child, too! The activity can easily be adapted by having the teacher, therapist, or parent make the sound on each card, if needed or preferred. You'll love having this language and auditory-rich deck in your library of materials for years to come. The no-prep, digital activity gives you complete flexibility to use it however suits your students in speech therapy, AVT, and the classroom!