General Overview
The auditory brain training games provide training in seven categories that are important for successful listening:
- Phoneme discrimination
- Most frequently used words in the language
- Auditory attention
- Auditory working memory
- Bound morpheme discrimination
- Discourse comprehension
- The goal of training phoneme discrimination is to develop your ability to make phonetic distinctions (e.g., the word “mat” from the word “bat”).
- The goal of training the most frequently occurring words in the language is to develop your abilities to recognize words that are likely to occur during everyday conversations (e.g., the words “car” and “chair”).
- The goal of training auditory attention is to develop your ability to extract meaningful speech from a background of noise.
- The goal of training auditory processing speed is to develop your ability to recognize speech quickly. This is important because during everyday conversation, one word follows another quickly.
- The goal of training auditory working memory is to develop your ability to process the meaning of words.
- The goal of bound morpheme training is to develop your ability to distinguish words that vary in word endings (e.g., “can” versus “can’t”).
- The goal of training discourse comprehension is to develop your ability to comprehend sentences that might occur in conversation
- Auditory processing speed
- Phoneme discrimination
- Recognizing frequently used words
- Auditory working memory
- Recognizing frequently used words
- Auditory attention
- Phoneme discrimination
- Recognizing frequently used words
- Listening confidence
- Auditory attention
- Phoneme discrimination
- Recognizing frequently used words
- Auditory processing speed
- Recognizing frequently used words
- Auditory memory
- Recognizing frequently used words
- Discourse comprehension
- Auditory memory
- Bound morpheme identification
- Phrase comprehension
EARplane
An auditory processing game in which you choose which aircraft to fly and then capture clouds by choosing the right word.
Auditory Skills Trained:
pokEAR
An auditory working memory game in which you play five-card draw poker with an in-house 'dealer' and try to have the winning hand. The more chips you play with, the more clEAR coins you earn.
Auditory Skills Trained:
TreasEAR Island
An auditory attention game in which you will bet your clEAR coins on a casino slot machine.
Auditory Skills Trained:
FarmEAR in the Dell
An auditory attention game in which you will create cash crops of vegetables.
Auditory Skills Trained:
MountainEAR
An auditory processing speed game in which you will climb the great mountains of the world, including Mount Everest and Mount Hood.
Auditory Skills Trained:
EARonaut
An auditory memory game in which you will have the opportunity to travel the solar system by remembering pictures and words.
Auditory Skills Trained:
ShakespEARe
An auditory memory game in which you will practice your discourse comprehension skills by competing in a quiz show that is a lot like a popular gameshow currently on television.
Auditory Skills Trained:
pEARl Crunch
A word-endings game (also called “bound morphemes”) in which you will build pearl necklaces by plucking pearls from oyster shells.