The document provides strategies for developing listening skills in children. It recommends using a natural voice rather than singsong when children develop basic listening. It also suggests giving children time to process instructions rather than immediately repeating, and establishing the expectation that directions will be provided only once to encourage comprehension. Clarifying questions like "what did you hear?" can determine if the child understood and help identify difficulties with language or concepts.

1. Strategies for developing
listening skills
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•Use natural voice
•Give child time to process
•Give a direction once through listening
•Use clarifying

3. Use a natural voice
• In the early stages of learning to listen,
use a singsong voice and acoustic
highlighting with your baby.
• As your child's listening skills develop, use
a more natural voice with less acoustic
highlighting.

4. • Your child needs to hear a natural tone,
with appropriate stress, intonation, rate
and rhythm if she is to develop natural
sounding speech.

5. Give your child time to process
If your child does not follow a direction or
respond verbally immediately, it is better to
wait rather than jump in to rephrase or
repeat the information.

6. Often your child will have heard the
message but needs time to process it.
Repeat the information if there is no
response after a short delay.

7. Give a direction once through
listening
• As your child develops more listening
skills, establish the expectation that the
message will be said once only.
• Your child will learn that it is her
responsibility to listen and comprehend the
first time something is said.
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8. • Use the waiting strategy and give your
child time to process the information. If
your child does not respond after the
message is said once, she needs to ask
for the information to be repeated
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9. Use clarifying
When your child is older, one of the best
ways to find out if she has understood the
message is to ask What did you hear?
This puts the responsibility on her to listen
and comprehend the information.

10. • If she does not understand or if she has
not heard the message, she should be
taught the correct language to ask for
clarification, for example, I didn't hear that;
Pardon?; Say it again please; What did
you say? Would you repeat that please?

11. • This strategy can highlight whether your
child is having difficulty with the language
or the concept

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