Auditory Skills Development

Question 1

What is the “Bottom Up Approach”?

Answer 1

moves from easiest to most difficult

Question 2

what is meant by Detection Level?

Answer 2

Babies ability to detect the presence of sound or absence of ( ex. especially difficult for hearing loss)

Question 3

Discrimination Level?

Answer 3

1. Master discrimination of SUPRASEGMENTAL aspect of language

Question 4

What is meant by SEGMENTAL LEVEL?

Answer 4

Phonemes, syllables, morphemes

Question 5

What is meant by identification level?

Answer 5

child can label or name an item (ex. person says ball and child points to the ball)

Question 6

What are the 3 things necessary for a child to accurately function at the identification level?

Answer 6

1. Auditory Memory 2. Attention 3. Auditory Closure

Question 7

what is auditory memory?

Answer 7

able to recall speech

Question 8

What is meant by Attention?

Answer 8

focus on person speaking so as to understand what was said

Question 9

What is Auditory Closure?

Answer 9

Able to fill in a missing or misspoken part of a word or message ( if child has an hearing impairment, noisey classroom is challenging)

Question 10

What is the COMPREHENSION LEVEL?

Answer 10

comprehension of sound and it’s meaning= must be able to analyze, and process sound