AgBell Conference 2012 - Auditory Skill Development: Basics and Beyond

Auditory Skill Development
Betsy Moog Brooks, M.S., CED, LSLS Cert AVEd, Amy Birath, Au.D., CCC-SPL, FAAA, LSLS Cert. AVEd, The Moog Center for Deaf Education, St. Louis , MO

Increased performance expectation because of early hearing aid fitting (They are getting calls from the hospital)

Speech perception test
- early speech perception test
- 18 months should have 25 words, 1 year post implant should have 100, age 3 - using utterances of 3 and 4 words

*****Auditory memory - ability to repeat back items after presentation - attending, listening, processing, storing and recalling.  May produce benefits for kids with Cis

*****Auditory skill development - clef and wisc tests

Activities - 
- digit span - make one presentation, recall numbers in a row
- word span for unrelated items
- words with different number of syllables

Listening in  Noise - value in practicing.  Auditory training in noise improved performance with CIs.   (Og 2011)
- first in quiet
- multi talker babble
     Auditec.com
      Babel babble (app)
- introduce noise at +10 SNR 
- noise should come from behind the child
- studio 6 audio tool - sound level meters 

Activities
- imitating sentences with a picture context
- following directions imbedded in a sentence 1-4 critical elements
- sentences without context 6-8 word sentence in noise
- riddles in sentences in 3-5 words and each riddle has 3-5 sentences 

I have wings
I cannot fly
I can swim

I am at school
I open and close
People read me

Riddles with 6 or more words

I am made of wood but I might be different colors
I have four legs and sometimes I have two arms
People like to sit on me

Stories with illustrations

Comments

[Nathan Gluck Hearing Care]

Just as seeing is meaningless until the brain interprets the images and decides what actions to take, so hearing is useless without auditory processing. Auditory processing is what happens to sounds after they've been received by the ear and sent on to the brain for interpretation. Auditory processing is actually a collection of skills, including auditory memory, discrimination, sequencing and blending. The term also includes phonological awareness and related skills. Auditory processing skills impact a student's ability to learn to read, to follow oral direction and to benefit from oral presentation of information.