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Listening Skills

• Beginning with Babies An article on the Learning to Listen Foundation giving practical ideas about encouraging babies to listen
• Learning to Listen Sounds from the Learning to Listen Foundation website.  Gives practical ideas for exposing young children to key speech sounds
• The Listen Up website outlines speech sounds to use with young deaf children.  Includes guidance on how to introduce them and pictures to use with older children.
• The LING Six/Seven Sounds Test is a well-established way of checking a child's ability to detect or identify speech sounds.  These three links explain what to do
  • The LING Six Sound Check from Advanced Bionics which includes pictures for 6 sounds
  • The 6 LING sounds: Information on how to use the LING sounds produced by Ohio and a LING sound song
  • Article 'Using the Ling 6-Sound Test Everyday'

Assessing Listening Skills in Young Deaf Children

• IT-MAIS has 10 probe questions that are used to within a discussion with parents to find out about their child's developing listening skills. The article includes ideas to develop skills too.

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