Children spend enormous amounts of time listening in school. They don't lack opportunities to practice listening. They do, however, need sequenced, organised instruction that will help them learn how to listen better in the very place they need to do it best: the classroom.

It's Time to Listen uses a metacognitive approach directed toward teaching a child how to listen in a conscious way. This approach increases learning in all children, but particularly those with weak auditory or attending skills.

This programme is perfect for use with individuals with Central Auditory Processing Disorders, Attention Deficit Disorder, Asperger's Syndrome, or high-functioning autism. The interest level is approximately Years 3 to 7, but can easily be adapted for older or younger students.

Includes reproducible items           

€79.30

Use this complete guide to take the guesswork out of treating central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) in school-age children to adolescents.

Gain a clearer understanding of the behavioural effects of CAPD on language and language-development performance. You'll find reproducible materials providing questions and answers for parents, and suggestions for teachers and students. Follow through the processes of intervention, remediation, transition and carryover.

Focus clients on auditory figure-ground activities, and use the spelling list (segmented by grade level) to improve processing. Differentiate CAPD from Attention Deficit Disorder, learning disabilities, dyslexia and hearing impairments. Copy and distribute worksheets for three areas.

• Auditory memory, following directions and auditory figure ground
• Auditory discrimination
• Auditory cohesion.

Includes reproducible items 

€77.00

Sequential order can be determined by attentive listening to the clues in these short stories and simple directions.  There are 60 photocopiable worksheets which are great for work with individuals or groups.  Age 6 – 9. (WP)

€31.95

Children with auditory processing problems are able to remember general information better than they can remember specific information and details.  This programme provides 29 two-part lessons with both an activity page and instructor’s page for every lesson.  By sending both pates home after the work is completed parents are able to understand your purpose and their child’s progress.  Ages 3- 6. (WP)

€31.95

Helps to develop attentive listening skills, good comprehension of directions and auditory memory skills for remembering directions while visually scanning a worksheet.  An instructor’s worksheet is provided for every student worksheet.  The instructor’s worksheet lists materials needed, instructions for use and then provides directions for students to follow on two levels of difficulty.  All directions are to be read aloud as the purpose of this unit is to strengthen the ability to listen and process auditory directions. (WP)

€31.95

This book combines 83 photocopiable pictorial scenes with activities to increase a child’s auditory memory, motor, receptive listening and language expansion skills.  The scenes and activities may be used in any order and can be adapted to suit the individual child.  It can also be used as homework sheets to encourage parent-child participation in the reinforcement of these skills.  The scenes and activities are interesting, fun, easy to understand and follow. (WP)

€30.95

The main purpose of this book is to stimulate attentive listening and accurate auditory processing.  The directions cover a wide variety of basic concepts in language and specific vocabulary words that are frequently unknown to students who have difficult processing auditory information.  Directions are provided for each activity, making the book easy for parents to use for home practice.  The book is illustrated with attractive cartoons designed to appeal to children and help stimulate completion of the task.  Ages 4 – 8. (WP)

€31.95

An activity manual for professionals working with pre-school children who have underdeveloped listening skills, this book contains numerous activities designed to stimulate and develop auditory attention and auditory perceptual skills at both basic and advanced levels.  It includes comprehensive lists of words, phrases, sounds and soundmakers.  The contents include: Discovering sound; Exploring soundmakers; Sound or silence? simple discrimination; Sound recognition; Finding sound; Fine discrimination; Rhythm and sequencing; Auditory memory; Listening to speech; Listening skills in the school curriculum; Holiday projects; Listening resources. (WP)

€58.95

Delightful activities enhance alert listening and accurate processing when subjects change quickly.  As pictures are presented, a statement is read aloud, followed by a direction that has little to do with the first statement.  The statements and the directions are both clear and simple but on two different subjects.  The listener must learn to “go on” in listening, i.e. remain an alert listener when subjects and directions quickly change. (WP)

€35.95

“Put a green line under all the foods that grow on trees” “Put a purple circle around everything that can melt”.  This 75-page workbook offers a different approach to improving auditory attention and processing.  It is designed to provide practice in coordinating auditory information by organising it into categories, actions, uses and features.  It provides sets of questions and directions on two different levels of difficulty, plus a photocopiable student working page.  Age 4 – 9. (WP)

€31.95

A collection of photocopiable exercises that offer practice in following simple auditory directions, using multiple vocabulary words such as point to, draw, put, circle, colour, count, touch, clap and the conditional word if.  Each worksheet has cartoon- style illustrations and an accompanying instructor’s worksheet giving directions.  Ages 3 – 6. (WP)

€31.95

This comprehensive set of materials for teachers and clinicians presents a multitude of photocopiable activities organised into 6 sections: auditory discrimination; auditory memory; auditory perception; auditory association; auditory syntheses and auditory comprehension.  Within each section, the activities are arranged from least to most difficult and incorporate a wide variety of language skills, among which are absurdities, answering questions, antonyms, synonyms, categorisation, drawing conclusions, following verbal directions, inferences, problem solving, rhyming skills, sentence completion and sequencing.  Also included are more than 70 worksheets which can be used individually or in groups.  Language ages 6 – 11.

€44.95