Not hearing correct sounds

[kimocha]

My daughter has CAPD. She can not tell the diffrent a between some sounds. For example the a and e sounds. She thinks the word bed and bad are the same. I have tried to show her how the mouth shape is diffrent but that does not seam to help. she has used earrobics but cries and has total melt downs when asked to use the program. She states that it's just to hard. And this is a child who generally is very compliant.

 

Is there anything elts I should try? Someone had Mentioned a device that is kind of like a hearing aid that the audiologist could help us to get. But that sounds expensive and money is tight right now. Would there be any other alternative? Maybe speech therapy?

 

Thanks for your help ladies.

[imagine.more]

Speech or hearing therapy could help for sure. Also Lindamood Bell LiPS would be good. I'm DIYing LiPS for a friend's daughter and it's very interesting!

[Crimson Wife]

Definitely try LiPS and check out the activities here: https://thelisteningroom.com/

[merry gardens]

We used several things. We started with LiPS (after he failed the Barton screen.) I got the LiPS vowel training video too for my own training purposes to help me understand that portion of the program most thoroughly. Once through a portion of LiPS, we used Barton. Barton is a reading program for dyslexia, and it introduces vowel sounds very slowly with key words to help differentiate between the vowels. Also, listen closely to your own accent. I came to realize that my accent likely contributed to some of my son's vowel confusion.

 

(edit to add: the year before doing LiPS we tried something called "The Listening Program" at the suggestion of a speech therapist. He still failed the Barton screen the next year.)

Edited November 26, 2015 by merry gardens