OUTLINE FOR AUDITORY SKILLS CURRICULUM OBJECTIVES

Discrimination Memory sequencing Auditory feedback Figure ground

1. Demonstrates Selective Attention to 1. Recalls and sequences critical 1. Demonstrates preverbal behavior 1. Demonstrates auditory skills at
sound elements in a message a. Engages in vocal play varying distances in a quiet
a. Demonstrates spontaneous a. Follows simple familiar b. Vocalizes for attention or classroom
awareness of sound directions needs a. Demonstrates selected
b. Demonstrates awareness b. Sequences two critical c. Vocalizes on demand skills 5-6 feet from sound
of sound making a elements in a message source
conditioned response c. Recalls three critical 2. Imitates vocal production b. Demonstrates selected
c. Searches for or localizes elements in a message a. Imitates varying vocal play skills across the room from
sound source d. Recalls four critical b. Imitates length of speech sound source
elements in a message utterance
2. Discriminates nonverbal sounds c. Imitates vocal intensity 2. Demonstrates auditory skills at
a. Discriminates between 2. Demonstrates auditory cognitive d. Imitates number of varying distances in a classroom
linguistic and nonlinguistic skills within a structured listening set syllables with a normal noise level
sounds a. Follows multi-element e. Imitates vocal pitch a. Demonstrates selected
b. Discriminates directions f. Imitates stress features of skills next to sound source
environmental sounds b. Sequences series of multi- speech b. Demonstrates selected
element directions g. Imitates rhythmic pattern of skills 5-6 feed from sound
3. Discriminates speech on the basis of c. Makes identification based speech source
suprasegmental features on several related h. Imitates intonational c. Demonstrates selected
a. Discriminates between descriptions features of speech skills across the room form
“longer” and “shorter” d. Sequences three events i. Imitates phonemic features sound source
messages e. Recalls five details of an of speech
b. Discriminates voices of event, story or lesson 3. Demonstrates auditory skills at
man, woman and child f. Sequences five events 3. Modifies vocal production varying distances in a noisy
c. Discriminates differences in g. Understands main ideas of independently classroom
rhythm, stress and a lesson or complex story a. Modifies vocal intensity a. Demonstrates selected
intonation with linguistic b. Modifies durational features skills next to sound source
messages of similar of speech b. Demonstrates selected
syllabic length
3. Demonstrates auditory cognitive c. Modifies vocal pitch skills 5-6 feed from sound
skills in conversation
d. Modifies stress features of source
a. Answers questions
4. Discriminates linguistic messages speech c. Demonstrates selected
requiring comprehension of
with contextual cues e. Modifies rhythmic pattern of skills across the room form
the main idea of a short
a. Discriminates stereotypic speech sound source
conversation
directions f. Modifies intonational
b. Paraphrases remarks of
b. Follows ongoing speech features of speech 4. Demonstrates auditory skills in the
other speakers
accompanied by printed or g. Modifies phonemic features presence of a verbal distraction
c. Offers spontaneous
illustrated text of speech a. Demonstrates selected
relevant remarks
c. Completes known linguistic skills when verbal
measures distraction is across the
d. Discriminates groups of room from pupil and sound
related words source
b. Demonstrates selected
5. Discriminates speech on the basis of skills when verbal
segmental features distraction is 5-6 feet away
a. Discriminates words in from pupil and sound
which the vowels and source
consonants differ
b. Discriminates rhyming c. Demonstrates selected
words skills when verbal
c. Discriminates between distraction is next to pupil
words in which the and sound source
consonants are identical d. Demonstrates selected
and the vowels differ skills when sound source is
d. Discriminates between at various distances from
words in which the vowels pupil and verbal distraction
are identical and the
consonants differ in
manner and place of
articulation and in voicing
e. Discriminates between
words in which the vowels
are identical and the
consonant differ only in
manner of articulation
f. Discriminates between
words in which the vowels
are identical and the
consonant differ only in
voicing