Auditory discrimination is the ability to see, compare and distinguish between different and different sounds. For example, forty-four words sound the same.
In particular, the stigma attached to it allows people to distinguish between phonemes by words. The words are the smallest unit of sound in any language. Auditory discrimination allows a person to distinguish between words and sounds like words, and different sounds.
Therefore, a child with Auditory problems may have difficulty distinguishing between words such as “sister” and “sitter” or “cat” and “bed.” In general, children are unable to distinguish between small differences in phonetic sounds.
Auditory Discrimination plays an important role in the development of language and learning skills. In order to acquire literacy, children need to have sound awareness, so the problem of ear discrimination can create challenges for new learners.
Some children may have difficulties with auditory discrimination. If so, it is important to have the child evaluated.
How to Improve Auditory Discrimination
It is very important to improve auditory discrimination and we need to work on the activities to develop discrimination skills.
We will discuss in details as under:-
- Listening – listen to the sound on cd, and then ask the students to point to a picture of the object making the sound.
- Listen to the music with closed eyes and guess the name of the music
- Play sound bingo – listening to the sound on tape and covering the correct picture
- Sound walk – students drawing pictures or noting the names of the sound they are hearing while walking
- Grouping sounds – animals, musical instruments, motors etc
- Odd one out – ask the students to identify the sound that is not part of a group of sounds, eg. dogs barking, pig grunting, cow mooing, musical instrument playing.
- Musical discrimination – discriminating between loud / quiet, high / low, fast / slow music notes.
- Clapping or tapping sounds – this activity can be linked with picture-noun recognition. Students can work in pairs, using picture-noun cards and take turns to clap syllable beats and choose the picture-noun card to match the number of beats
- Rhyme time – ask the students to listen to a word. If it rhymes with the word that they have in their hand then they can keep it and win points
- Sound bingo – discriminating between initial sounds
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