Why do stories matter? We communicate through stories. We go home at the end of the workday & share our story. At family-friend gatherings, we tell stories. Gifted storytellers capture our attention, touch hearts, trigger questions, & evoke powerful feelings. Children with hearing loss require intentional auditory experiences to become competent conversationalists & storytellers. Clinicians & families can create rich, intentional auditory experiences leading to storytelling. Using language experience books (LEB) we facilitate auditory memory, narrative development, vocabulary, concepts, feelings & learning that written words represent them (Robertson & Wray 2020). The workshop focus includes LEB benefits, how to construct an assortment of language experience creations, LSL strategies, & collaborating with families in using LEB.
Learning Objectives:
Construct a listening and spoken language intervention activity using an experience book OR creation specific to a child's goal/s.
Discuss why it is important to use experience books and other creations in listening and spoken language intervention for children with hearing loss.
Create with family who has a child/children with hearing loss or deafness an experience book or other medium that relates to a daily routine or family activity for listening and spoken language outcomes.