Music Discrimination Auditory Songs Activity with Audio

by Stacy Crouse

Price: 700 points or $7 USD

Subjects: speech,hearingAndAudiology,listeningSkills,expressiveLanguage,earlyIntervention

Grades: 14,13,1

Description: This BOOM CARD deck targets BOMBARDMENT and AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION of music for children with cochlear implants and/or hearing aids. For young children with hearing loss, listening to songs is a natural and age-appropriate way to demonstrate variations in SUPRASEGMENTAL aspects of sounds including pitch, intonation, and duration. Children with hearing loss benefit from music because it... ✅ Increases their awareness of DIFFERENCES in sounds and melodies ✅ Develops a sense of music APPRECIATION ✅ Provides many opportunities to hear language REPEATED in a song ✅ Encourages PRACTICE with using varied suprasegmentals in their own speech and singing Work with each child at their CURRENT LEVEL! The deck includes 91 cards that are divided into sections so you can adapt the resource to multiple ages and abilities. ✅ SONG PLAY includes a separate card for each of the 10 common children's songs so children can become familiar with each song, if needed. Lyrics and a scene representation of the song (with movable pieces for the parent/therapist/child to use in play) are included. ✅ The other 4 sections include AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION tasks at various levels of difficulty (2, 4, 6, and 8 choices). Each level has 20 cards and includes... - PICTURE VISUALS for the songs/answer choices - The ability to play a VOCAL RECORDING of the song or a VOCAL + ACOUSTIC GUITAR recording - An OPTIONAL COVER that can be removed for a parent or therapist to see the song title and sing it themselves.