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Games to Enhance Auditory and Related Skills 

see also: Main Story | (Central) Auditory Processing Defined | New Committee on
Auditory/Linguistic Processing Disorders
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Auditory Discrimination

  • Rhyming games
  • Ending sound word chains 
  • Telephone game

Dichotic Listening

  • Repeat one or both targets presented to each ear at the same time

Localization

  • Blind Man’s Bluff
  • Marco Polo
  • Find the sound

Temporal Processing

  • Mad Gab 
  • Bop It, Bop It Extreme 
  • Simon, Simon 2

Auditory Vigilance

  • Simon Says
  • Twister 
  • Duck-Duck Goose 
  • Musical chairs 
  • Cake walks

Interhemispheric Communication

  • Simon 
  • Name that tune 
  • Feely bag 
  • Interactive video games 
  • Gymnastics
  • Karate 
  • Tossing ball from one hand to another

Attention to and Use of Visual Cues

  • Charades 
  • Read My Lips 
  • Pictionary

Metalinguistic and Metacognitive Skills

  • Hangman 
  • Twenty Questions
  • Crossword puzzles
  • Password 
  • Taboo 
  • Catch Phrase 
  • Tribond


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