Auditory Verbal Strategies To Enhance Listening And Spoken Language Skills
Active listening is the key to successful language learning. It involves maintaining attention, eye contact, and joint attention which are essential parts of pre-requisites of speech and language. Speech listening requires practice and the implementation of effective strategies.
Speech-language pathologists at Alam School use specific strategies to boost the listening and spoken skills of our students with hearing aids or cochlear implants. SADA NGO supports both the SLPs and Special Education Teachers at Alam School to provide their best services that can maximize the communication and academic skills of these children with hearing impairment. Here are some auditory verbal strategies that can help enhance the child’s listening and spoken language skills:
Acoustic Highlighting
An added vocal emphasis on an identified target sound, word, or phrase. You can say the target with more stress/intensity, increase the duration of a target sound or word, and pause slightly before saying the target.
Acoustic Highlighting
Provides numerous opportunities for a child to hear the target phoneme or word.
Auditory First
A set of conditions that enables the child to have better access to speech and language. Conditions include the child wearing hearing technology all waking hours, hearing equipment functioning at the optimum, ear molds fitted properly and free of wax, auditory stimulus being clear enough, removing any visual distractor before presenting auditory stimulus, and preparing the child to listen.
Expansion
Repetition of a child’s spoken message with the addition of some other useful words to expand the utterance and enhance the grammatical syntax.
Model Language
An adult speaks clearly at all times using correct grammar and giving appropriate vocabulary according to the situation.
by Shafaq Waheed
SLP, Alam School for Speech & Learning
