Phoneme discrimination:
Learn to make phonetic distinctions in a meaningful word context. For example, distinguish the word “Mat” from the word “Bat.”
Recognizing frequently used words:
Recognize words that are most likely to occur during everyday conversations. Example words are “boy” and “chair.”
Auditory attention:
Learn to extract meaningful speech from a background of speech babble, as you would in a noisy restaurant or at a family dinner table.
Auditory processing speed:
Learn to recognize speech quickly. Recognizing speech items quickly allows for less effort when listening to words in rapid succession, like during everyday conversation.
Bound morpheme identification:
Learn to distinguish words that vary in bound morphemes, such as “boy” versus “boys” and “can” versus “can’t.” The presence or absence of a bound morpheme can greatly affect the meaning of a sentence.
Discourse comprehension:
Practice understanding connected speech. We often hear connected speech during everyday conversation.
Auditory memory:
Practice retaining speech information that you hear so you can recall it and apply it later. This is an important skill for maintaining conversation.
The auditory brain training games provide training in seven categories that are important for successful listening:
- Auditory attention
- Phoneme discrimination
- Recognizing frequently used words
- Auditory attention
- Auditory memory
- Phoneme discrimination
- Recognizing frequently used words
- Auditory processing speed
- Recognizing frequently used words
- Auditory memory
- Recognizing frequently used words
- Discourse comprehension
- Auditory memory
- Auditory processing speed
- Bound morpheme identification