This article can be found at
http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster4/part88.html

Thank you to CC of
http://ifonlyihadsuperpowers.blogspot.com
for pointing this one out. (CC’s original post can be found here http://ifonlyihadsuperpowers.blogspot.com/2009/06/therapy-thursday-listening-activities.html)

Do You Hear What I Hear? – Listening Activities

By Judith Maginnis Kuster

“There is only one rule to become a good talker– learn how to listen,” said an unknown author. Although speech-language pathologists and audiologists may suggest additional “rules,” both professions agree that listening is an important skill. Speech-language and hearing specialists often incorporate listening activities with individuals who have speech sound differences or disorders and those who have hearing impairment, including those with cochlear implants.

Listening activities are also used to help individuals recovering from aphasia to improve auditory memory, teach individuals with autism spectrum disorders, help clients with attention or central processing disorders, and serving many other clients. The following resources offer freely available activities featuring this important component of treatment.

Listening for Environmental Sounds

The FindSounds search engine (www.findsounds.com/types.html) locates online sounds made by birds, animals, natural events, household items, musical instruments, holiday events, people, tools, vehicles, and more.

Bananas in Pyjamas (www.abc.net.au/children/bananas/games/animal_sounds/default.htm) offers a timed animal-sound matching/concentration activity with easy, hard, or very hard examples.

Animal Sounds (www.perunakellari.fi/animalsounds/animal-e.html) invites the user to type the name of the animal heard from a word bank of 21 animals.
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