Listening training games

The children try to guess what it is. Odd One Out This game is not as easy as it looks. There are also quite a few different ways to play it.

You could also have some objects to really bring it to life. Rabbit Game This is a highly addictive game that many children will love. There are a few ways you can expand the game. These include: Adding more instruments and animals. Into the hammock — Lie down Lift the cannonballs — Lift them up one by one and put them in the cannon Just mix up the commands and let them go for it.

Have a circle of socially-distanced children. Get them all to close their eyes. Then move to another point in the circle, and repeat. You can make this game much harder in a few different ways. Some of these include: Play the instrument really quietly Have two adults with instruments at different parts of the circle. Then the children have to point with two hands Play two instruments both really quietly Play two instruments that are the same e.

This makes it quite a bit trickier Use three instruments! Children point with two hands and maybe one foot Guess what the instruments are also 8. Noisy Box! This is a really fun one for young children in particular. Some great objects to use might be: Toy animals — this is probably the easiest way to do it and a good way to start Things that make electric sounds like a phone, or alarm clock DIY tools, like a hammer or drill Noisy objects, like a plastic bag, or tin foil. This is a much harder version of the game 9.

Red Light Green Light The basic idea is that one child is the traffic light. The winner is the person that tags the traffic light.

Mother May I? Musical Statues This is one is a classic party game that is also brilliant for sharpening listening skills. Put some music on! Children are going to be moving and dancing to the music When the music stops — they freeze! If you see them move then they have to sit down.

Musical Bumps This is a similar idea to Musical Statues. Traffic Lights This is a great listening game that involves all sorts of gross motor skills. The children are the cars in this game. The adult is going to be the traffic light. The instructions the traffic light will give, and the actions the children do, are the following: Green — Go! This encourages the children to always be alert and on the lookout for the next signal.

You can extend this game with the following ideas: Car-park — They lie down Motorway or freeway — Run really fast Honk the horn — Beep!

Roundabout — Go round in a circle Bean Game This is another quite well-known listening game. The instructions the adult will give in this game, and the corresponding actions are these: Runner bean — the children run around Sprouting bean — walk on tip-toes, with arms high in the air Jelly bean — wobble like jelly Baked bean — sit down Beans on toast — lie down Chilli bean — shiver!

You can extend the game by getting a child to become the person giving instructions. Simon Says Another old chestnut from the repertoire here — Simon Says. Mr Men Or Little Miss Game This is a very simple concept, and one that is open to lots of creativity and suggestions from children. Some good suggestions might be: Mr Grumpy — Stamp round with angry faces Mr Tall — Walk as high as possible with arms up Mr Topsy-Turvy — Walk, jump or crawl backwards Little Miss Tiny — Move round in a curled-up ball Little Miss Sunshine — Skip joyfully around If children can suggest their own characters and movements then that is great.

The idea is that a pair of children sit facing each other. Swop Places This an outdoor game that requires some chalk marking on the floor that look like this: some square boxes drawn all over the place in a random assortment.

A nice easy game to kick us off. You can make this one trickier in a few ways which include: Create a combination of two or more features. The children take turns to create their own criteria for swopping Shark Attack Markings Required — Same as the last game. The adult holds some kind of instrument for this one. Something like a drum would be perfect. At any given moment you are going to hit the instrument. Advance to new levels by collecting stars and win coins with each word you find.

This game features three levels of difficulty and works with Bluetooth enabled hearing devices. Games 4 Hearoes iPad. This interactive auditory training platform is designed to help new cochlear implant and hearing aid users familiarize themselves with common environmental sounds and vocabulary.

Developed in conjunction with audiologists and speech pathologists, the 30 fun activities focus on five key areas of hearing to help new users build familiarity and confidence. AudioCardio iOS. The premise of this app is that it helps you train your brain's ability to detect noise by playing sounds that are just under detectable levels for you.

You then create a personalized "sound therapy" that you can listen to while doing other things. The app creators state that this will result in improved gains in your hearing. The downside? While online brain games are fun, you can also do some daily hearing exercises at home.

The following activities are best when practiced with a partner. We've rounded up apps in several hearing categories to help you make the most of your smartphone or tablet. Debbie Clason holds a master's degree from Indiana University. Her impressive client list includes financial institutions, real estate developers, physicians, pharmacists and nonprofit organizations.

Read more about Debbie. Side Menu. Find hearing clinics in my country:. Assistive listening devices Amplified phones Captioned phones Hearing aid compatible phones TV hearing aid and listening devices FM systems Alerting devices. Recent articles In kids, hearing loss can mimic learning disorders, leading to misdiagnosis Kids with hearing loss are just as capable as their peers.

Birdwatching with hearing loss: How hearing aids help Age-related hearing loss can make it much harder to hear birdsong, which is a beloved sound for many people, especially birders. This exercise helps delegates to understand the importance of acknowledging the view of a person they are having a conversation with irrespective of whether they agree with it or not. The exercise helps to create a vivid example which can then be discussed and explored further.

Being able to have an opinion about important subjects and defend that position is an incredibly important skill in life. Often, we come across such potentially heated debates during the course of a day, but the subjects are mainly to do with practical daily tasks rather than deeper philosophical issues.

The solutions to such issues are usually non-obvious where many thinkers have been putting efforts in exploring them and providing insights. This structured exercise provides an opportunity to practice debating on such topics in a controlled environment where the main focus is on the following:.

Use this exercise to motivate people and help them to view an experience differently. This exercise is fairly simple to execute and yet quite effective. The essence of the exercise is to show that even the most negative experiences can be quite educational and useful in the long run and that if one does not see the benefits, others might be able to see it and bring it to their attention. This exercise is also useful to practice improving emotional intelligence and empathising with others.

Most people are not good listeners. This is even more pronounced when people get excited about sharing their own views or thoughts and like to express them and share them with others quickly.

The problem is that in their excitement they miss what has just been said. Over time this can develop into a bad habit leading to miscommunication and misunderstanding. This exercise is designed to help delegates practice listening to others and avoid jumping in before they have shown that they have understood what is shared. Active listening is a critical communication skill and it is important to know how to do it.

This exercise has been designed in such a way that encourages delegates to pay their utmost attention while engaged in a conversation. The exercise forces delegates to stay focused throughout the activity and be ready to contribute when necessary. While communicating with others, it is important to use active listening skills. Listening attentively can significantly improve relationships and minimise misunderstandings.

The best way to learn active listening is by practicing it while communicating with others in a realistic setting. This exercise helps delegates practice active listening in various contexts depending on your choice and training needs. Positive feedback can have a dramatic effect. During or after the discussion, show the bullet points on the list shown on the Active Listening PPT PowerPoint slide below, to compare them with the answers that participants gave and to comment.

There are many distractions that can stop us from listening , including checking our phones while we talk with someone or internal distractions such as being hungry, tired or worried about something. Sometimes we think we know what somebody will say even before they have said it, so we do not listen properly because we think we know what they are going to say.

This can lead to making wrong assumptions and to us not listening to anything that does NOT fit with those assumptions. If we are in a hurry, we cannot focus on what is being said. So, it is better to set time aside if we need to speak to somebody about something important. Sometimes, our main priority is to prove we are right. We can switch between tasks fairly quickly, but this reduces the efficiency with which we are able to focus.