Auditory training exercises
These exercises provide an opportunity to work with a communication partner on specific listening skills.
Auditory training exercises
This hearing rehabilitation program was designed for you to practice your listening skills with a family member or a friend. Challenge yourself with active listening exercises that can help you learn to recognize simple words or use context to find details in a story. These auditory training activities for adults focus on the building blocks of hearing. Practice distinguishing different sounds, recognizing words and patterns in context, and developing your communication skills in conversations. For adult recipients with an aural rehabilitation practice partner, these communication exercises can be a valuable tool to connect and practice your hearing together.
These tips will help you complete these active listening exercises:
- These activities are designed to be completed in order from least difficult to most difficult, which is how they are displayed on this page. However, if you find a listening activity too difficult, you can skip it and come back to it later.
- If you’re ready for more challenging aural rehabilitation exercises, you can complete these practice activities while sitting side-by-side with your practice partner so you can’t rely on lip-reading to aid your listening.
- You can also practice these activities in a noisy environment like a café or restaurant.
Exercises
Syllable Count Lessons
These auditory training activities focus on practicing your listening skills with words. As your practice partner speaks a word from a list of options, you will listen carefully and repeat back the correct word. This listening exercise can help you begin to differentiate words based on how many syllables you hear.
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Syllable Count Lesson 1.0 |
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Syllable Count Lesson 1.1 |
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Syllable Count Lesson 1.2 |
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Syllable Count Lesson 1.3 |
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Syllable Count Lesson 1.4 |
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Syllable Count Lesson 1.5 |
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Syllable Count Lesson 1.6 |
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Syllable Count Lesson 1.7 |
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Syllable Count Lesson 1.8 |
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Syllable Count Lesson 1.9 |
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Syllable Count Lesson 1.10 |
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Syllable Count Lesson 1.11 |
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Syllable Count Lesson 1.12 |
Word Stress Lesson
This communication exercise focuses on identifying which word or words your practice partner is emphasizing or stressing within a sentence. This listening exercise can help you recognize inflection and pick up on more emotional context within spoken conversations.
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Word Stress Lesson 2 |
Phenome Exercises
These hearing exercises are designed to help you practice differentiating among similar sounds. Your practice partner will speak words or sentences that sound almost alike, and you will identify which words were spoken. These are active listening exercises that can help you recognize words more clearly and have better hearing in conversations.
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Phoneme Exercise 3.0 |
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Phoneme Exercise 3.1 |
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Phoneme Exercise 3.2 |
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Phoneme Exercise 3.3 |
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Phoneme Exercise 3.4 |
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Phoneme Exercise 3.5 |
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Phoneme Exercise 3.6 |
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Phoneme Exercise 3.7 |
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Phoneme Exercise 3.8 |
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Phoneme Exercise 3.9 |
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Phoneme Exercise 3.10 |
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Phoneme Exercise 3.11 |
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Phoneme Exercise 3.12 |
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Phoneme Exercise 3.13 |
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Phoneme Exercise 3.14 |
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Phoneme Exercise 3.15 |
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Phoneme Exercise 3.16 |
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Phoneme Exercise 3.17 |
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Phoneme Exercise 3.18 |
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Phoneme Exercise 3.19 |
Frequency Exercises
Theses auditory training activities are designed to help you practice listening to and identifying full sentences. Your practice partner will speak a sentence and you will listen carefully to determine which sentence was spoken. These communication exercises will help you develop your listening skills in conversations.
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Frequency Exercise 4.0 |
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Frequency Exercise 4.1 |
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Frequency Exercise 4.2 |
Breaking it Down Exercise
This aural rehab exercise involves repeating back phrases your practice partner has spoken to you. It offers an opportunity to practice on regularly used phrases that you will hear often in conversations and helps build your confidence with communication.
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Breaking it Down Exercise 5.0 |
Text Following Exercises
These listening exercises help you develop your active listening skills by following along with a passage as your practice partner reads it aloud and repeating the last word when your partner stops reading. This hearing game requires your full attention and can help you hone your active listening skills.
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Text Following Exercise 6.0 |
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Text Following Exercise 6.1 |
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Text Following Exercise 6.2 |
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Text Following Exercise 6.3 |
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Text Following Exercise 6.4 |
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Text Following Exercise 6.5 |
Fill in Exercises
These auditory training activities will help you connect word recognition with conversational context. Your practice partner will read a sentence and fill in a word, and you will listen carefully to identify which word they’ve chosen.
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Fill In Exercise 1.0 |
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Fill In Exercise 1.1 |
Closed Set Exercise
The task in this communication exercise is to listen as your practice partner describes a drawing and identify which drawing is being described. This listening activity gives you the opportunity to hear spoken language and compare it to corresponding visuals.
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Closed Set Exercise 2.0 |
Topic Exercises
These active listening exercises provide you with listening activities based on conversational subjects. The additional context clues in these hearing exercises help you to familiarize yourself with the words and sentences that commonly occur in conversation about certain topics.
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Topic Exercise 3.0 |
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Topic Exercise 3.7 |
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Topic Exercise 3.8 |
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Topic Exercise 3.9 |
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Topic Exercise 3.10 |
Context Exercises
These communication exercises help you familiarize yourself with common, often-used words, sentences, and situations. These aural rehab activities will help you sharpen your listening skills and gain confidence in everyday conversations.
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Context Exercise 4.0 |
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Context Exercise 4.1 |
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Context Exercise 4.2 |
Info Exercises
These active listening exercises are completed by filling in missing information in a variety of contexts. Your practice partner may describe a picture, provide you with description of a missing item for you to draw, or otherwise help you listen to fill in missing information. These open-ended communication exercises give you an opportunity to practice your listening with more limited context clues.
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Info Exercise 5.0 |
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Info Exercise 5.1 |
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Info Exercise 5.2 |
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Info Exercise 5.3 |
Open Set Exercise
This listening activity requires you to fill in the blanks in incomplete sentences by listening as your practice partner reads the sentences aloud.
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Open Set Exercise 6.0 |
Script Exercise
This two-way hearing exercise helps you develop your listening skills by asking scripted questions about your practice partner and repeating their answers back to them.
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Script Exercise 7.0 |
Seeking Info Exercises
These auditory training activities involve conversations between you and your listening partner, where you ask questions about things like traveling or taking a course and listen to your partner’s answers. This communication exercise goes beyond simple, everyday conversations and begins to explore more unique conversation topics.
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Seeking Info Exercise 8.0 |
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Seeking Info Exercise 8.1 |
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Seeking info Exercise 8.2 |
Open Set Exercise
This listening activity requires you to listen as your partner reads a sentence aloud and then repeat it back to them.
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Open Set Exercise 9.0 |
Stories Exercises
These auditory listening exercises ask you to listen to a short story read out loud by your partner, and then answer questions about it. This will test your ability to hear spoken words and comprehend them.
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Stories Exercise 10.0 |
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Stories Exercise 10.1 |
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Stories Exercise 10.2 |
Script Exercise
This active listening exercise uses a two-way dialogue with a pre-scripted conversation to help you learn to listen to spoken statements and respond appropriately.
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Script Exercise 11.0 |
The communication skills exercises, including context, confirmation, predication, and question type exercises, are a set of active listening activities designed to help you communicate in real-world scenarios. In these practice exercises, you’ll be given varying amount of context and information as you engage in conversations with your speaking partner.
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Context Exercise 1.0 |
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Context Exercise 1.1 |
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Confirmation Exercise 2.0 |
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Prediction Exercise 3.0 |
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Question Type Exercise 4.0 |
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Confirmation Exercise 5.0 |
Disclaimer
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