Re: Ear Aerobics/auditory training??

[Guest guest]

The program is called Earobics. I got a used copy on eBay, fortunately, it's

pretty

expensive. However, Ben has the same kinds of problems. I used Fast Forward

with him at

2.5, the program helped a lot BUT he STILL cannot do " Dog Deals the Deck " which

requires

phonemic awareness of the first sound in the word, so both auditory

discrimination and

auditory working memory. The dog in the program lays down four cards and says

the

name of the word, and Ben is supposed to say which starts with a different

sound. He

can't do it. His speech articulation is excellent now and he has come a long

way in

expressive speech, but I believe he has both auditory processing difficulties

and also

semantic-pragmatic language disorder (it has taken me about three years to

figure out

that the professional therapist were talking about something different when they

said,

" receptive speech, " " language, " and " auditory processing. " Maxine Young

moderates a

group on the latter. An excellent site regarding language problems can be

found

on www.hyperlexia.org (or .com, I forget) by putting " semantic-pragmatic

disorder " in

Google. Auditory processing is not the realm of speech therapists, it is in the

audiologist's

realm to diagnose and it might not be possible to diagnose central auditory

processing

until the child is at least six years old.

Hope this helps.

Peace,

Kathy E.

>

> Hi,

> Awhile back I remember reading someones post regarding a program to

> enhance auditory processing. I think if was called Ear Aerobics????

> If anyone knows anything please let me know. My child is apraxic with

> language issues as well. He cannot hear rhymes at all. It is so

> bizarre? I was so frustrated yesterday because I signed him up with a

> reading program conducted by a speech path. His scores were all over,

> of course. She couldn't believe that he was having such a problem

> with the segmenting sounds in words and hearing initial, medial, and

> final sounds because he has been in speech for so long. It was really

> upseting to me. We have been so focused on artic/apraxia type of

> therapy that we have neglected the language. However, he didn't speak

> until he was 3 and we are finally at the sentence level.

> Mia

>

[Guest guest]

The program is called Earobics. I got a used copy on eBay, fortunately, it's

pretty

expensive. However, Ben has the same kinds of problems. I used Fast Forward

Basics with

him at 2.5 y, the program helped a lot BUT he STILL cannot do " Dog Deals the

Deck " which

requires phonemic awareness of the first sound in the word, so both auditory

discrimination and auditory working memory.

The dog in the program lays down four cards and says the

name of the word, and Ben is supposed to pick which starts with a different

sound. He

can't do it. His speech articulation is excellent now and he has come a long

way in

expressive speech, but I believe he has both auditory processing difficulties

and also

semantic-pragmatic language disorder (it has taken me about three years to

figure out

that the professional therapists were talking about something different when

they said,

" receptive speech, " " language, " and " auditory processing. " Maxine Young

moderates a

group on the latter. An excellent site regarding language problems can be

found

on www.hyperlexia.org (or .com, I forget) by putting " semantic-pragmatic

disorder " in

Google. Auditory processing is not the realm of speech therapists, it is in the

audiologist's

realm to diagnose and it might not be possible to diagnose central auditory

processing

until the child is at least six years old.

Hope this helps.

Peace,

Kathy E.

>

> Hi,

> Awhile back I remember reading someones post regarding a program to

> enhance auditory processing. I think if was called Ear Aerobics????

> If anyone knows anything please let me know. My child is apraxic with

> language issues as well. He cannot hear rhymes at all. It is so

> bizarre? I was so frustrated yesterday because I signed him up with a

> reading program conducted by a speech path. His scores were all over,

> of course. She couldn't believe that he was having such a problem

> with the segmenting sounds in words and hearing initial, medial, and

> final sounds because he has been in speech for so long. It was really

> upseting to me. We have been so focused on artic/apraxia type of

> therapy that we have neglected the language. However, he didn't speak

> until he was 3 and we are finally at the sentence level.

> Mia

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Mia,

You know what? I Had completely forgotten i had this cd's at hme. A friend

gave this to me like 2 yrs back when my son was 3+, he was not interested so I

thought he was not ready. So when I read here like 2 wks ago, I went digging,

and I found it. My son only started yesterday and he loves it. He woke up this

morning and was on it.

It teaches everything a kid needs to know b4 kidergarten with special needs

kids in mind. Kids have to LISTEN to instruction b4 they click on the mouse.

This is so great for my son because before yesterday, he clicks so fast b4

listening. If you need a copy, my husband can burn one for you. Send me your

addr and I'ld mail it to you. (You can email me privately with this at

benjolarac@...)

I could not believe it!! My son was repeating every word the instructor was

saying.l I'm loving it.

Jola (Mom to Nehemiah 6yrs- severe appraxia, sensory integration, ADHD)

mianavarrosmith <mia@...> wrote:

Hi,

Awhile back I remember reading someones post regarding a program to

enhance auditory processing. I think if was called Ear Aerobics????

If anyone knows anything please let me know. My child is apraxic with

language issues as well. He cannot hear rhymes at all. It is so

bizarre? I was so frustrated yesterday because I signed him up with a

reading program conducted by a speech path. His scores were all over,

of course. She couldn't believe that he was having such a problem

with the segmenting sounds in words and hearing initial, medial, and

final sounds because he has been in speech for so long. It was really

upseting to me. We have been so focused on artic/apraxia type of

therapy that we have neglected the language. However, he didn't speak

until he was 3 and we are finally at the sentence level.

Mia

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