On last speech and audio discussion, Dr. Basya and Pn. Izzati suggested i view and print this printable module from Cochlear website. It has week by week activities to be carried out with your hearing impaired child. It's like a guide for doing your own speech therapy session at home.
i, of course did not know this exist and never thought of going to Cochlear website because Afif is not a CI boy. But Dr. Basya said it's okay because it's the speech lesson that matters, regardless of the baby using hearingaids or CI.
There's so many steps to get to this page so i'll just give you the link:
http://hope.cochlearamericas.com/listening-tools
Depending on your baby's hearing age, you can choose the module for babies or for toddler. Though Afif is a toddler, his hearing age is 8 months so i chose to work with Sound Foundation for Babies module.
There are week by week module. As Afif has been wearing HA for more than 8 months, i did not start on module 1 for him. Choosing which week to start on was a bit tricky for me as week 36 module looks too advanced for him. In the end, i went through almost all of the module and decided to print week 15 onwards. Even with that, there's a few things in those module that Afif has not mastered and a few other things that he has mastered. So evaluate your child's speech and hearing and start the module according to that.
i wish i knew about this modules when he started wearing the HA. It'd be way easier for us. Anyhow, what's done is done. We'll have to work hard.
Sound Foundation for Babies: for the first 12 months of aided hearing
Sound Foundation for Toddlers: for the first second year of aided hearing
Afif's printed module.
i put it in clear pocket by week.
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