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Evidence-Based Listening, Language, and Literacy Skills Programs Ages 3+

Evidence-Based Listening, Language, and Literacy Skills Programs Ages 3+

Build listening, language and literacy skills for early childhood and early elementary kids with foundational skills for academic and social success! SOUNDS FUN! impacts development and growth of language, reading, spelling and comprehension. The ListenLoveLearn®, SOUNDS FUN! theories and Integrated Lessons easily fit into early childhood and early elementary 30 – minute sessions or periods. Speech-Language Pathologists can utilize the lessons in individual or group sessions and parents can use the lessons for learning at home with their children.

Sounds Fun for the Preschool Teachers
  • Provides specific goals for enhancing listening, language and literacy
  • Satisfies requirements for RTI (Response to Intervention) Tier 1 and 2
  • Researched, Evidence-based and tested
  • Developed by an internationally renowned Speech-Language Pathologist and Educator
  • Auditory-language skills taught in the evidenced–based approach of bottom-up and top-down learning
  • Offsets negative trend of diminishing auditory skills due to increasing use of technology such as iPads, computers and smartphones
  • Satisfies requirements for RTI (Response to Intervention) Tier 1 and 2
  • Plus 4-hour hands-on training module each day
  • It's Fun, Fun, Fun for student, teacher, and parent

Description

Sounds Fun! Level 1 and 2 supply the educator, therapist or parent with engaging, colorful, and evidenced-based ways to teach and increase listening, language and phonemic awareness in early childhood.

Both levels include lesson plans and activity materials based on children’s literature to activate and maintain the child’s ability to attend, listen,  store and retrieve language information.

These programs prepare children for Pre-K, Kindergarten and Elementary School AND it’s so much FUN learning this way.

Taught by Lois K. Heymann

Level 1

Introduces the auditory-language (bottom up and top down) strategies for combining auditory and language goals into every session. Includes a full color manual with Integrated Lesson plans for Early Childhood (developmental ages 3-5).

  • What is auditory learning and why all students need these skills.
  • What is auditory learning and why all students need these skills.
  • What is auditory learning and why all students need these skills.
  • Lesson Planning and Lesson Demonstrations

Level 2

Expands on auditory-language theories and strategies with focus on the Early Elementary (developmental ages 5-8).

  • What is auditory learning and why early elementary students need these skills.
  • Combining Listening, Language and Phonological skills (The Integrated Lesson Plan)
  • Lesson Planning and Lesson Demonstrations
  • Lesson demonstrations adding Verbal Tonal Movements (Moving Sounds)