Auditory Processing Problems and Beginning Literacy Skills

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Does anyone have any tips for teaching students with auditroy processing disorders how to hear rhymes? I believe it’s important for kids to learn how to manipulate language but these (first graders) students have a really hard time hearing the rhyme? I’ll say tell me a word that rhymes with cat and they say something like “top”. Any suggestions?

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 04/10/2002 - 6:12 AM

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Start with finger plays by saying them slowly and have them watch your mouth as you articulate the words and have them sing along. Also reading childens picture books like Pickle things by Marc Brown, Where the wild things are and others that feature onset and rhyme. Also you have to s…l….o…w your speaking rate down so that they can catch the sounds.

I have been doing this with kids who have auditory processing and articulation issues and it has been working like a charm. Also, while they are coloring the cue cards for the rhymes of the fingerplays I sing the finger plays over and over again so that they can get the rhythm down and they sing along and eventually they get it. It may take a bit longer but you have to get this into their immature auditory memory and many songs with onset and rhyme move to fast for the kids with Auditory processing issues so you have to artificially slow them down so that they can make the connections and then you can speed up the delivery when they start to put it together. This is kind of what Fast For Word does with words but I am using the fingerplays and fun children’s books with onset and rhyme to make it fun and the kids are just loving it.

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 04/17/2002 - 1:42 AM

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I took a workshop a few years ago and have found the rhyme-a-word game to be a usefull tool for rhyme recognition. Make 10 sets of rhyming words (according to class/individual needs). Tell students to say, “salami, pastrami” if they rhyme and “no way” if they don’t rhyme. Always model first.

Another activity is to take a popular/made up rhyme story, read two lines and leave out the rhyming word. Have children guess the missing word and draw it.

I hope this helps!

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