Listening Skills

Question 1

What is awareness

Answer 1

Noting the presence of a particular sound or sound.

Question 2

Awareness subskills:

Answer 2

● Listening attention
● Responding to environmental sounds (noise makers, recorded sound)
● Responding to speech sounds (live sound)
● Alerting to continuous sound and noting when it stops
● Localization
● Conditioned response

Question 3

Indicators for awareness

Answer 3

Widening eyes
Head turning
Glancing eyes
Pointing to ear

Question 4

Making judgements as to the similarity or between sounds

Answer 4

Discrimination

Question 5

Discrimination indicators:

Answer 5

Changes in facial expressions, action or demeanor to indicate that something different was heard

Question 6

Discrimination Subskills:

Answer 6

● Responding differentiality to:
○ Music vs speech
○ Toys vs speech
● Responding differentiality to:
○ Female and male voice
○ Angry, sad, or happy voice
● remediation/clarification tasks
○ Re: 2 phonemes
○ Re: 2 words/utterance

Question 7

What is patterning?

Answer 7

Recognizing the features of rate, duration, intensity, and pitch that create rhythms in speech sounds and speech.

Question 8

Indicators of patterning

Answer 8

● Changes in facial expression, action or demeanor when a specific change in duration, intensity or pitch of a sound occurs
● Vocalizing with beats that match an envi sound or other vocalization. (a child first identifies the syllables, ginagawa ang pattern pero hindi pa ginagawa ang words.)
● A physical action to the suprasegmentals of a sound

Question 9

Sub-skills of patterning:

Answer 9

● Marking syllable number in word imitations
● Noting differences b/w short and long vocalizations utterances
● Noting differences between fast and slow speech
● Noting changes in pitch

Question 10

What is identification

Answer 10

Can identify a word, an element

Question 11

Indicators for identification

Answer 11

● Label a sound, word or other input through a motor or speech response
● Repeating, imitating
● Pointing
● Writing

Question 12

Subskills of identification

Answer 12

● Imitating speech sounds
● Identifying: ELTLS
● Identifying words varying by syllable number
● Identifying words
● Identifying a phrase based on inclusion of ELTLS
● Identifying simple sentences containing key words with varying vowel content and syllable number
● Recognizing and responding to stereotypical phrases

Question 13

What is comprehension

Answer 13

Creating novel response? Demonstrating understanding of particular input

Question 14

Indicators of comprehension

Answer 14

Generation of new ideas
○ One that is qualitatively different than the stimuli presented
● Answering a question
● Continuing a thought

Question 15

Subskills of comprehension

Answer 15

● Developing memory and concept for a single word
● Showing understanding of ELTLS
● Responding appropriately to common expressions
● Following simple directions
● Answering common questions