LittlEARS Item 5

5. Does your child look for a speaker they cannot see?

While interacting with your child, another person begins talking behind you. Your child may stop talking, turn and look, search for the sound, and/or vocalize.

Example Situation

You are face-to-face with your child and your child turns their attention away from you to look at a new/different sound.

How to address this skill:

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As much as you can, be face-to-face with your child. To teach this skill, help point out and show your child a head turn to find where the sound is coming from. You can turn with your child to look toward the sound. Pay attention to the different speakers and sounds in your environment. This helps your child learn and label different sounds as a start of connecting sound to meaning.

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