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Neurodevelopment Teaching Tip of the Month Did You Hear That? November 1, 2009 |
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Auditory Processing – Part Two By Jan Bedell, M.Ed., M.ND (Certified Neurodevelopmentalist) www.LittleGiantSteps.com Why are so many children struggling with low auditory processing? Many years ago, when our educational system was developed, we were primarily an auditory society. We ate together as families two to three times a day and TALKED. We read as a family in the evenings or LISTENED to radio broadcasts for hours. We developed our auditory processing abilities by practicing. Today, our society is primarily VISUAL, with TV, computers, movies, and electronic games. These all-consuming visual activities permeate our lives and leave little time for the truly important practice of listening and developing our auditory processing abilities. Even though our society is primarily visual, we are still using the educational delivery system that was developed for a primarily auditory society.
What can be done? Since the brain is dynamic and ever-changing, much can be done to remediate the processing ability of any person, at any age. By providing specific stimulation to the brain to increase ones auditory processing ability. Digit span exercises can be done with a four minute time investment, which will result in global benefits for the child. Instructions for these exercises are included in a free auditory test kit. This kit will allow you to test any individual, ages four to adult. This information will give you a baseline to work from and a better understanding of your child's struggles or inefficiencies. If you would like to receive a Free Auditory Test Kit, please click here to send an email to the Order Department at LittleGiantSteps.com (orderdept@littlegiantsteps.com). In addition to digit spans daily, I encourage you to read to your children at least one hour a day as an additional way of developing processing skills. When they are not listening to you read, they could be listening to books or stories on tape/CD (without the book). This is a great way to add value to the time spent playing with Legos, coloring, or other fine motor activities. Listening to audio stories and books (not music) increases vocabulary, helps reinforce sentence structure, provides opportunity for narration, and models good writing structure, in addition to developing auditory sequential processing. Audio stories are also a wonderful way to productively occupy preschool children while you are schooling older siblings. 510 Words |
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