If you looking for TWO listening and language games to play all year long you’ve come to the right place! These fun dog-loving games are an easy, stress-free way to practice listening skills, and buil ... s, and build spoken language, descriptive vocabulary, questioning skills, and auditory processing skills.YOU CAN TARGET: These games target and can build auditory memory, comprehension, processing, descriptive vocabulary, grammar, using clear speech, and social skills.TWO GAMES IN ONE RESOURCE:     Game 1: TOP DOG* is a two-player game where players use differential yes or no questions to listen and isolate a specific dog based on critical elements.     Game 2: GO FETCH* is a two or more-player game where players ask questions and listen to match pairs of dogs and their belongings cards. Kids love these cute and cuddly dogs and ask to play time and time again. I have used versions of both of these games SUCCESSFULLY for years while working with children who are deaf and hard of hearing, those with auditory processing needs, and students who need to develop listening skills.* These games are versions of the traditional Go Fish and Guess Who games that are played with rules to target listening and spoken language skills. Both games can easily be adapted to meet a child’s ability level. The cards can be sorted into sets of fewer cards which would be an easier listening set. Use all 36 different card designs for a more complex game.INCLUDES:✧ A complete guide with detailed instructions ✧ 36 enticing colorful game cards used for both TOP DOG and GO FETCH!✧ A digital gameboard for Top Dog✧ Listening and Spoken Language TipsFACE TO FACE - TELETHERAPY - HOME✢ PRINT - One-time easy prep. ✢ DIGITAL - The Top Dog digital gameboard can be opened and played with your favorite PDF reader app on a tablet or iPad. Tokens can be placed directly on the screen.on a computer.  Open the PDF game board with the 36 spring egg images and use a PDF reader such as Adobe Acrobat Reader DC which is free. The listener used the annotation tools to mark the cards like Lotto.YOU ASKED. I LISTENED. I created a second dog-themed resource based on many of your requests and the rave reviews that kids are so motivated by my LOST DOG and MY PET CAT animal activities. You will want all three resources in your Listening and Language Toolbox.PLEASE NOTE: This activity and the LOST DOG resource contain many of the same images that are bright, enticing, and vocabulary rich. However, these two resources target completely different auditory and language-based goals.◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ CUSTOMER TIPS:➼ Questions? Email me before purchasing this resource or anytime later.➼ Sign-up HERE for the Listen With Lynn Emails♥ Let’s Connect:InstagramFacebookKeep up your good work. I am blessed to help along the way.Thanks so much!Lynn Wood

Kids love playing “WHAT’S MISSING?” games as they learn to think critically, develop listening, and memory skills while building receptive and expressive language.The Stand-Up Snowpal resource include ... urce includes SEVEN interactive activities for preschoolers through elementary children. Stress-free ways for practicing and building communication skills with the kids you see at school or for therapy. FUN for the kids and SIMPLE for you! Quick and easy one-time print and cut the Snowpals.Use all winter and year after year.TARGETS:Kids use their existing knowledge, experiences, and problem-solving skills for✤ Critical thinking✤ Communication✤ Auditory and visual memory✤ Compare and contrast✤ Part to whole relationships✤ Cause and effect✤ ObservationsINCLUDES:Seven activities or ways to playDeck of sixteen Snowpal cardsEight colorful stand-up SnowpalsInstruction guideListening and Spoken Language TipsYou’ll need 8 papers cups◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ CUSTOMER TIPS:➼ Questions? Email me before purchasing this resource or anytime later.➼ Follow me to be updated with newbies and freebies!♥ Sign-up HERE for the Listen With Lynn Newsletter♥ Let’s Connect:InstagramFacebookKeep up your good work. I am blessed to help along the way. Thanks so much!Lynn

This checklist is designed to be part of biannual discussions and monitoring between early intervention professionals and family members of infants and toddlers with hearing loss. Family members are a ... sked to consider the different areas that can affect the rate that communication skills develop and how often their child receives attention to each of these considerations. Areas covered are: Auditory Communication, Visual Communication, and Effective Communication Strategies.

If you have kids that need help with auditory working memory, executive functioning, and following directions, the winter Holiday Listening Finger Walks are a must-have! These THREE Listening Walks ar ... are FUN for the kids and SIMPLE for you!➼ Listening Walks can help build listening skills and working memory by allowing kids to work with auditory information without losing track of what they're doing.➼ The games target vocabulary, descriptive skills, spoken language, and communication skills.➼ Each of the games has three rounds that increase in auditory complexity.Includes:✧ Three fun themes for therapy sessions or school lessons to use throughout the holiday✧ Three Listening Finger Walk Gameboards1. Holiday Pictures2. Holiday Stockings3. Holiday on the Farm✧ Listening and Spoken Language Tips✧ Print Version: Easy one-time prep✧ No Prep - Digital Version◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ CUSTOMER TIPS:➼ Questions? EMAIL ME before purchasing this resource or anytime later.♥ Sign-up HERE for the Listen With Lynn Emails♥ Let’s Connect:InstagramFacebookKeep up your good work. I am blessed to help along the way.Thanks so much!Lynn Wood

Overview of Theory of Mind, especially as it is impacted when a child is deaf or hard of hearing.

Are you looking for a fun, humorous figurative language activity for Halloween?Give Me a Break is a game featuring 40 body-part idioms and skeletons. The idioms cards are shaped like bones and can be ... hung on a toy skeleton or placed onto a skeleton mat. The idiom game cards correspond to body parts. Example:Cold feet - tape the card to a foot of the skeleton.Spine-tingling card attaches to the skeleton's back.Give someone a hand attaches to a bony hand.This resource will easily stretch across many sessions leading up to Halloween and is sure to be a valuable figurative language tool for years to come!Targets:  Vocabulary, idioms, understanding figurative language, auditory comprehension, executive functioning, higher-level critical thinking, and communication skills.What's Included:A huge PDF resource of: ✧ 40 idiom bone game cards, Print and Digital versions ✧ 6 skeleton game mats ✧ Progress monitoring or data collection sheets✧ Definitions or answer key✧ Listening and Spoken Language Tips✧ A guide with instructions➼ OPTIONAL but not included: Use a toy skeleton available online and at a Halloween or dollar storeIDEAL FOR: Listening & Spoken Language, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Auditory Processing Disorder, Speech and Language Therapy, School Lessons, Auditory Verbal Sessions, Special Education, English Lessons, Homeschoolers...FACE TO FACE - TELETHERAPY - HOME✢ PRINT - One-time easy prep. Print and cut out the 40 bones cards.Print the skeleton mats OR use a toy skeleton.✢ DIGITAL - The body part idiom bone cards can be screen shared with your favorite PDF reader such as the free Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈CUSTOMER TIPS:➯ Questions? Feel free to email me before purchasing this resource or anytime later. ➯ Sign-up HERE for the Listen With Lynn emailsLet’s Connect:InstagramFacebookHearSayLW.com❤  Keep up your good work. I am blessed to help along the way. Thanks so much! Lynn

The DECEMBER Listening and Language By The Month resource includes seven activities that can be used ALL MONTH for auditory memory and comprehension, seasonal vocabulary, developing grammar, and build ...

WINTER Found It is a fun LISTENING & LANGUAGE AUDITORY SKILL BUILDER. Mix and Match the 5 auditory skill builder games with any of the 5 winter-themed game card sets. Players listen, auditory process ... ss information then find engaging seasonal images. This resource is a stress-free way for practicing listening skills, building spoken language, and communication skills with the kids you see at school or for therapy.Found It can be played cooperatively, for a predetermined period of time, or by filling the cards like Lotto. The games and rules are flexible and open-ended.  IDEAL FOR: Listening & Spoken Language, Deaf & Hard of Hearing,Auditory Processing, Speech, Auditory Verbal Therapy, ELA, Teletherapy, Home...✧ Easy to level up or down based on the child✧ Flexible! Use auditory targets you write with the game card sets✧ I’ve done the planning for you in the guide! ❤FIVE GAMESAuditory Identification (Listening Lotto)Auditory Memory (Listen and Remember)Auditory Association (What goes together? What doesn’t belong?)Descriptions - Critical Elements (Listen and Describe)Categories - Critical Thinking (Can you find it?)FIVE DIFFERENT GAME CARDSWinter ObjectsSnowmenHot CocoaWinter Action VerbsMittens✧ Mix and match the 5 Auditory Skill Builder Games with any of the 5 winter-themed game card sets.✧ Each game card has 16 seasonal pictures.✧The cards can also be used to teach other fall vocabulary lessons and can be played as LOTTO games.GAME ONE: Auditory Identification (Listening Lotto)Auditory identification is the ability to use the auditory channel to understand the meaning of spoken language. The Object: is for the child to listen, select and mark the correct picture named from on the board. ★ Example prompts for Game One: Auditory IdentificationThe complexity varies according to the game board and the auditory skills.- Winter Objects - “Find the ice skates.”- Hot Cocoa - “Find the hot cocoa in the yellow and orange mug with marshmallows.”- Mittens - “Find the green mitten with a penguin wearing a red stocking cap.”- Snowmen - “Find the snowman wearing earmuffs and mismatched mittens.”- Winter Action Verbs and Activities - “Find the boy who is snowboarding.”GAME TWO: Auditory Memory (Listen and Remember)Auditory memory is the ability to recall auditory information both immediately and after a delay which is an extremely important aspect of spoken language development. Auditory memory growth enables children to speak in longer and more complex grammatical sentences. The Object: is for the child to listen and recall two, three, and four-word sets.Game Three:  Auditory Association  (What goes together? What doesn’t belong?)Auditory Association is the process of attaching meaning to something heard by relating it to previously learned information.The Object: What Goes Together?Have the child listen, repeat the words and explain how they go together or are associated. Next, find and mark the correct pictures on the board.The Object: What Doesn’t Belong?Have the child listen, repeat the words using their auditory memory then tell what doesn’t belong and why. Next, find and mark the correct pictures on the board.Game Four:  Descriptions - Critical Elements  (Listen and Describe)Descriptive language adds information that makes the language more colorful and appealing.The Object: is for the child to listen and identify a picture based on descriptions and critical elements.This activity builds vocabulary and descriptive language skills.Game Five:  Categories - Critical Thinking  (Can you find it?)Categories are a group or class of items with shared characteristics. The ability to use categories builds vocabulary and logical thinking skills. It includes auditory reception, memory, and comprehension.The Object: is for the child to listen to the category then identify the picture(s).Easy Game Prep Print Version: Print the game cards and laminate them. Gather game         markers like winter-themed winter erasers or Bingo Chips.Digital Version: Play on a computer with your favorite PDF reader app or on a tablet. When playing on a computer, open and use a PDF reader such as the free Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. Use the annotation tools to mark the game cards.Resource Includes:- Listening & language guide- Target or goal suggestions- Directions to level up or level down- Individual directions for each of the 5 games- 6 game cards with 4 variations of each (24 cards in total)- Listening and Spoken Language Tips- Print and digital options◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈CUSTOMER TIPS:➯ Questions? Feel free to email me before purchasing this resource or anytime later.➯  Sign-up HERE for the Listen With Lynn NewsletterLet’s Connect:InstagramFacebookPinterestHearSayLW.comHearSayLW BlogTwitterKeep up your good work. I am blessed to help along the way. Thanks so much!Lynn

The article describes the development of theory of mind skills in the first 5 years of life as well as factors that influence of development.

You'll love the FOOD version of Light It Up Language! Kids listen to clues to identify 16 hidden FOOD vocabulary pictures. Each of the pictures has four clues that are increasingly more specific.The m ...  magic happens by lighting up the “What Do You Hear?” cards. Hidden pictures are held up to a flashlight and the FOOD images amazingly appear. How fun! Once the hidden picture is revealed the child recalls and uses the clues to describe the FOOD. Thereby stretching their auditory memory, descriptive language, and expressive language skills.TARGETS: RECEPTIVE: This game builds critical thinking and reasoning skills by categorizing, making inferences, and drawing conclusions. EXPRESSIVE: The child recalls and uses clues to describe the hidden object. INCLUDES:✧ Listening & language guide with instructions✧ Target or goal suggestions✧ 8 What Do You Hear? cards (printed twice)✧ 16 Hidden FOOD Picture Vocabulary Cards✧ 64 Prompt Clues - 16 objects with four details each that get increasingly more specific✧ A Script with scaffolding strategies✧ Listening and Spoken Language Tips ➼ EASY one-time quick game prep and you're all set to use year after year. ➼ You’ll need a FLASHLIGHT, a lamp, or a sunny window.◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ ◈ CUSTOMER TIPS:➼ Questions? Please email me before purchasing this resource or anytime later.♥ Sign-up HERE for the Listen With Lynn emails♥ For more ideas visit my blog: HearSayLW.comSTAY CONNECTED:✧ Sign-up here for the Listen With Lynn emails✧ Follow on Facebook - Lynn A. Wood - LSL Auditory Verbal Therapist and Rehab Audiologist✧ Follow on Instagram @auditoryverbal_listenwithlynn❤ Keep up your excellent work. I am blessed to help along the way. Thanks so much!Lynn Wood