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The picture is from their catalog. This is a terrific program for teaching the "Who, What, When, and Where" questions. For 2 years (off and on), I worked with my son on these concepts. He would seem to understand one or two of the W questions for a week or so and then get confused again. I happened to see this program during my catalog surfing. Since I had run out of ideas, I decided to give it a try. Because it puts the meanings of these questions in such a highly visual format, my son picked it up in a snap. In one weeks time he had a firm grasp on all 4 of these questions. If I had to pick out my one favorite program from the many I have purchased, this would be the one. You start out like this (for the picture above), "You can't see who is driving. You want to know who is driving. What do you ask?", helping the child if he needs it. After a few of these cards he'll catch on. There are a couple of minor problems with the cards, but they're easy to correct. If you're woking with more than 1 child, the cards are too small. Before you take the cards apart, take them to a copy center and have them enlarged onto heavy card stock (like what they're printed on) and have them enlarged so there are 4 on a page, or even 1 to a page. Make sure to have the white cards copied onto white card stock and the yellow cards copied onto yellow card stock. Then go over the lines on the white cards that should be red with a marker. You can purchase this card stock at your local office supply store (sometimes it's called cover stock or vellum bristol). If you go someplace to have the copies made like Kinkos, they have the card stock there and you won't have to purchase a whole ream of it (then again, I've found that I use this paper all the time and I can never have too much of it on hand). I discovered that my son could read the number code at the bottom of the card and was able to tell what the question should be (he sees "wo3" and knows it's a who question). To get around this, be sure to hold each card so that your finger covers this, or if you have the cards copied, put some white out over this. You can then write the card number code lightly on the back of each card with a pencil. Then again, who knows? Maybe in the beginning it actually helped reinforce the meaning for him.
I have made an effort to learn as much about Aural Habilitation as possible. I found that this book took all the pieces of information I had learned and put them together for me. I only wish that this book had been available to me when my son and I first started on this journey. I highly recommend it to anyone working with an aural child (parents included). My son received one of these as a Christmas present. I'm sure you've seen them before. It looks like it has lightning inside and when you touch the globe, the bluish-pink strings of light are attracted to your hand. When we discovered this has a switch to make it activate in the presence of sound, I thought this would be a great therapy tool for those children that are reluctant to use their voice. We set it up in my son's room and set it to activate to sound. That night I realized it had another benefit. My son sleeps without his hearing aids and when he takes them off, he feels cut off. He worries a lot because there are no visual clues or auditory clues to what is happening in the house. I noticed that whenever something made noise in the house, this lamp flickered on. He can now tell when the phone rings and stuff like that (even though he's supposed to be going to sleep). His confidence at night has now increased. I like it because it's a very gentle light, not enough to wake him on the rare occasions he is actually asleep. |
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These things were worth every cent I paid for them! How often can you say that
about something? 
"See What You're
Asking?" 
