La early stimulation It is very important to do it with our babies from the moment they are born, since it helps them in a better development of all his senses and it avoids or improves possible problems that they have in any of the senses.
There are many games to stimulate all the senses and today we are going to focus on the ear stimulation, a very important and essential sense to perform exercises from birth to improve and detect possible hearing problems.
What are games for auditory stimulation?
Games for auditory stimulation with all those designed for children, in their beginning in the sharpening so that they know how to differentiate and recognize the different sounds. There are children with decreased or distorted hearing, so this type of game is very important to stimulate them at a very early age.
Some of the games that we can play for stimulate the ear of our little one is to use the common sounds like the sound of ambulances, fire engines or police car. To ring musical instruments in different directions will make the little one react to different sounds and differentiate them.
Tips to stimulate children's hearing in their early years
When they are babies we can stimulate your ear with everyday sounds so that you become familiar with both the voices and the description of various reproductions.
- Singing lullabies.
- Clap your hands, wave your hands and make him imitate you.
- Imitates the sounds of animals and make it play the same noises.
- Use a toilet paper tube or the like to make sounds as a speaker.
- Use musical toys such as rattles, pianos, tambourines, small drums or musical boxes.
- You can buy them bracelets or anklets with soft bells, so you can make them sound when you move your arms and legs.
- Play with the object textures, you can buy toys that imitate the noises of paper, cellophane, plastic. If you can't find them, you can reproduce their sounds with different materials.
Games for auditory stimulation
These are some examples of games for auditory stimulation. They can be done when the child is over one year old, but it can also be perfect at any age.
The orchestra game
This game consists of using different musical instruments. It consists of the imitation through these instruments of making other sounds that are being heard, through rhythms, some easy songs or when the parents are doing it.
In addition, the child can also be made to sing, causing it to also stimulate their speech. In this way you will be stimulating gestural and oral language.
hearing cards
The ear cards you have to record various sounds such as a car when it starts, a moving train, a dog barking ... For each sound we will have a card with each image These can be newspaper clippings or computer printable drawings. These cards are placed on the ground.
We will put the recordings and the game consists of the little one pointing to the appropriate card corresponding to the sound he hears. Every sound you identify will stay with the card. If we play with him it will be much more entertaining and this game will help you to understand relationships and improve memory.
Games to share with friends
This game strategy is designed to children from the 5 years. At this age it is when the child is already interacting and playing with other children, here you can take advantage of some games for them to share through entertainment and learning.
It means that children have to assume the role of some characters through imitation and where a much more complex vocabulary can be introduced to them so that they can learn new words. The game is promoted with the intention of imitate sounds and words to improve their ability understanding and language. This type of strategy is ideal for improving the communication strategy among children with disabilities.
Games to memorize and develop auditory memory
These games expedite the ability to have to pay attention through the ear and then they have to have the solvency to develop a word that they have to memorize, remember or play They can be offered a string of words, for example, cat, dog, bird, fish, insect... and then omit one of them. Here they have to guess the omitted word.
Children can sit in a circle. There are several types of game, where one of them is the "broken phone" One of them begins by telling the child on the left a sentence. The child who has received a sentence has to say it to the next. All the children have to memorize the same sentence, and that sentence has to arrive exactly as it was said at the beginning. It really always ends up transforming the phrase into another similar and funnier one.
Another way would be chain words. It consists of saying a series of words in a chain and that are related to the child who is on the left. The child who has received it has to say the same words again the next time, in order that all the series of words arrive in the same order and form to the child who started. Another more complex way would be to say two words and the next child has to add a new word, in this way words will be added that have to be memorized.