According to Lisa Luna DeCurtis, children need to build auditory skills, their listening skills, before they can begin to build their speaking skills. With all the wonderful sounds the games available on the iPad make, using these apps help stimulate a child's auditory skills!
When using iPad apps to help build a child's auditory skills, Lisa says that she begins by showing the children the pictures so that they can begin to associate the pictures with the sounds they make. After some practice with that, Lisa has the child play a guessing game. During the guessing game the child is asked to listen to the sound and guess what is making the sound. Playing these types of guessing games with a child helps you tune into how the child is hearing and how they are interpreting sounds.
The different apps that the iPad makes to help build auditory skills includes; instruments, animal and environmental sounds!
Student's Perspective:
Since auditory skills need to come before communication skills, I think any student would agree that they would benefit from using apps on the iPad that would help build their auditory skills. Since I believe that many students with Autism and students who are nonverbal understand a lot more than they are letting us know, which is an auditory skill, I think it would be more than beneficial to help these students strengthen the auditory skills that they already have and work towards them being able to communicate!
Parent's Perspective:
Every parent wants to be able to communicate with their child. Aside from that, every parent wants their child to be safe! That being said, the auditory skill building apps that uses environmental sounds would be the most important for a parent to want their child to learn. One of the sounds the environmental sound app helps children become familiar with is the noise a car makes when it is backing up. This sound is vital for a child to know for his or her safety and any parent would agree. Being familiar with environmental sounds, like car noises, is extremely important and parents would want their children to build these auditory skills to keep themselves safe.
Teacher's Perspective:
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| A teacher clapping to get his students attention. |
Auditory skills are very important for a child to have in the classroom as well as outside. Teacher's use auditory signals all the time in the classroom to get their student's attention. For example, the teacher may ring a bell or do a clapping pattern to help quiet the student's down. Since these auditory signals are very important when it comes to classroom management, it would be important to teachers that the students in their classroom are able to hear these signals and know that the signals mean that they need to be quiet and look at the teacher. That being said, teachers would be thrilled that there is an app to help their students build their auditory skills!
At this point, I have watched numerous videos on the iPad and all the numerous ways the iPad benefits those children in our lives who are unable to communicate with us. It was a surprising concept to now learn that children need to build their auditory skills before they can begin to communicate. It is very interesting to me to think that many of these children who aren't communicating aren't doing so because they do not have the proper auditory skills to do so. I think it is so important to work with children on building their auditory skills because they are going to need to use them to identify what's making sounds and why the sound is being made! This video relates to the classroom, because some students in a class may be lacking auditory skills. If appropriate, a teacher could use the iPad to help the student build their auditory skills and once their auditory skills are perfected, they may be able to communicate as well :) !
To learn more about how you can use the iPad to help build a child's auditory skills, watch the video below!!!
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