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Auditory Training for Learners with Hearing Impairment

1. Auditory Training Definition, scope and benefits Emie Leigh S. Gocela MASpEd SPED_508 “Teaching the Hearing Impaired

2. Auditory Training: Auditory training refers to a structured and systematic approach to improving an individual's auditory skills and abilities. It involves a series of exercises and activities designed to enhance various aspects of hearing, such as listening comprehension, speech perception, sound discrimination, and auditory memory. Auditory training can be beneficial for individuals with hearing impairments, language disorders, or anyone looking to enhance their auditory processing skills.

3. Meaning and Scope:

4. Scope:

5. Auditory Training programs train the brain in three key areas:

6. Benefits of Auditory Training

7. Auditory Physiology Auditory physiology refers to the study of the biological processes and mechanisms involved in hearing. It encompasses the anatomy of the auditory system, including the ear, and the neural pathways involved in processing auditory information. Key components of auditory physiology include the cochlea, which is responsible for transducing sound vibrations into neural signals, and the auditory cortex in the brain, where sound information is further processed and interpreted.

8. Sound Test

9. Stages of Auditory Training

10. 1. Auditory Detection Objective: This stage focuses on the ability to notice the presence of sounds. Sounds Used: Simple and distinct sounds, such as pure tones or brief, easily distinguishable environmental noises (e.g., a doorbell, a whistle).

11. 2. Auditory Discrimination: Objective: In this stage, individuals learn to differentiate between different sounds. Sounds Used: More complex auditory stimuli, such as distinguishing between similar speech sounds (e.g., /p/ and /b/) or different environmental sounds (e.g., a cat meowing vs. a dog barking).

12. 3. Comprehension of Gross Sounds: Objective: This stage involves understanding the meaning or context of relatively straightforward or gross sounds. Sounds Used: Environmental sounds with clear meanings, like recognizing the sound of a car engine, a door opening, or thunder.

13. 4. Environmental Sound Comprehension Objective: Here, the individual learns to understand more intricate or context-dependent environmental sounds. Sounds Used: Complex environmental sounds, such as distinguishing between various kitchen appliances, identifying specific animal calls, or recognizing different musical instruments.

14. 5. Speech Sound Detection Objective: This stage focuses on detecting and recognizing speech sounds. Sounds Used: Speech sounds, including phonemes, syllables, or simple words. The focus is on building the ability to identify and discriminate these speech components.

15. 6. Speech Sound Discrimination Objective: Building on the previous stage, this step emphasizes discriminating between similar speech sounds, improving phonemic awareness. Sounds Used: Similar speech sounds that may be challenging to distinguish, such as different vowel sounds or consonant blends.

16. 7. Comprehension of Speech Objective: The final stage involves understanding spoken language in a meaningful context, including syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Sounds Used: Conversational speech, sentences, and paragraphs. The goal is to comprehend and respond appropriately to spoken language.

17. Discrimination and Comprehension

18. 1. Segmental Features • Segmental features refer to the individual speech sounds or phonemes that make up spoken language. These features include consonants and vowels. Discrimination and comprehension of segmental features are crucial for understanding and producing speech.

19. 1. Segmental Features • Discrimination of segmental features involves the ability to differentiate between different phonemes, such as distinguishing between the sounds /p/ and /b/ in English. This discrimination is based on acoustic cues like place and manner of articulation, voicing, and duration.

20. 1. Segmental Features • Comprehension of segmental features involves recognizing and processing phonemes in context to understand spoken words and sentences. It requires mapping acoustic cues to linguistic representations.

21. 2. Non-Segmental Features: • Non-segmental features are suprasegmental cues that are not tied to individual phonemes but are used to convey information about prosody, stress, and rhythm. These features include pitch, duration, and intensity.

22. 2. Non-Segmental Features: • Discrimination of non-segmental features involves perceiving variations in pitch (intonation), speech rate (speech tempo), and loudness (stress patterns). For example, different intonation patterns can signal questions, statements, or emotional tones.

23. 2. Non-Segmental Features: • Comprehension of non-segmental features helps listeners extract information about the speaker's attitude, emphasis, and the syntactic structure of spoken language. For instance, rising intonation at the end of a sentence often signals a question.

24. 3. Supra-Segmental Features: • Supra-segmental features encompass aspects of speech that go beyond individual phonemes and include features such as tone, stress, and rhythm. These features are particularly important in tonal languages like Mandarin.

25. 3. Supra-Segmental Features: • Discrimination of supra-segmental features involves distinguishing different tones or stress patterns in words or phrases. For example, Mandarin Chinese has four lexical tones, and discriminating between them is crucial for understanding word meaning.

26. 3. Supra-Segmental Features: • Comprehension of supra-segmental features helps listeners recognize the emphasis and grammatical structure of spoken language. Stress patterns, for instance, can affect the meaning of words and sentences in English.