Auditory Perfection Activities

The ability to listen involves a complex process known as “auditory perception,” and includes 1) discrimination, 2) reception, 3) memory, 4) comprehensions and 5) closure. If a child’s listening skills need improvement in any of these areas, his or her overall capabilities may be affected. The following suggestions provide a sequence of skills from easy to complex) in each area of auditory perception. Working your way through these sequences will help you to spot areas that may benefit from special attention.

DISCRIMINATION

· Localizes direction of sound

· Identifies familiar voices

· Discriminates environmental sounds

· Discriminates between animal sounds

· Attends to a specific sound in a noisy environment

· Identifies familiar voices other than family members

· Identifies pair of sounds as the same or different

· Distinguishes between rhyming words

· Discriminates the position of sound in words