LittlEARS 

This auditory questionnaire is designed to assess auditory development in children with typical hearing and in children with hearing loss who use hearing technology. It covers auditory development in the first 2 years after hearing technology fitting (up to 2 years of hearing age) or in hearing children up to 2 years of age. The questionnaire includes age-dependent questions with increasing complexity of the auditory responses. 

The SOAR: Auditory Pop-Up is designed to match resources and intervention techniques to the LittlEARS auditory questionnaire.

Supporting Outcomes through Access to Resources

Find resources and information below for each item on the LittlEARS assessment.

2. Does your child listen to somebody speaking?

3. When somebody is speaking, does your child turn his/her head towards the speaker?

4. Is your child interested in toys producing sounds or music?

5. Does your child look for a speaker he/she cannot see?

6. Does your child listen when the radio is turned on?

7. Does your child respond to distant sounds?

8. Does your child stop crying when you speak to him/her without them seeing you?

9. Does your child respond with alarm when hearing an angry voice?

10. Does your child "recognize" acoustic rituals?

11. Does your child look for sound sources located at the left, right, or back

12. Does your child react to his/her name?

13. Does your child look for sound sources located above or below?

14. When your child is sad or moody, can he/she be calmed down or influenced by music?

15. Does your child listen on the telephone and does he/she seem to recognize that somebody is talking?

16. Does your child respond to music with rhythmical movements?

17. Does your child know that a certain sound is related to a certain object or event?

18. Does your child appropriately respond to short and simple remarks?

19. Does your child respond to "no" by typically interrupting his/her current activity?

20. Does your child know family members' names?

21. Does your child imitate sounds when asked?

22. Does your child follow simple commands?

23. Does your child understand simple questions?

24. Does your child bring items when asked?

25. Does your child imitate sounds or words you say?

26. Does your child produce the right sound to a toy?

27. Does your child know that certain sounds go with certain animals?

28. Does your child imitate environmental sounds?

29. Does your child correctly repeat a sequence of short and long syllables you have said?

30. Does your child select the right object from a number of objects when asked?

31. Does your child try to sing along when hearing a song?

32. Does your child repeat certain words when asked?

33. Does your child like being read to?

34. Does your child follow complex commands?

35. Does your child try to sing along with familiar songs?