Assessment tools

The Ling Sounds are designed to help test a child's hearing device and check that the child has access to the full range of sounds necessary to learn language. They are also a great tool for monitoring the function of your child's hearing device.

• The Ling 6 sounds - Cards Set
• The Ling 6 sounds flyer

Track a Listening Child is a checklist of progressive skills along the path to developing spoken communication. Check them off when each milestone is reached and feel confident as your child progresses through each stage. This system supports you in targeting goals when you look ahead at individual areas for listening, language, speech, social, cognitive and general development. It also provides helpful suggestions for you, should you need additional support.

• Track a listening child

How to use the interaction / discussion sheets

Little Babies
Professionals: Use this as a tool to highlight and reinforce parents’ good interactions, a prompt to aid discussion with families, as an informal framework for assessment and to share with interested professionals. Parents: Use this as a tool to self-evaluate and to reflect on the things you are doing that are helpful for your child, as well as to share with interested professionals.

• Small talk - Bigger babies
• Small talk - Little babies

You can use the Chit Chat sheets in various ways. You can give copies to family, friends and early-years professionals who see your child, to remind them of what they need to be doing to help your child with listening.

Conversation discussion sheets: You can use the discussion sheets as a rating scale to help you think about how often you are using the techniques recommended. This can be done with the help of your local professionals or other family members.

• Chit Chat - Conversation

Learning to listen sounds words & phrases sheets: The Learning to Listen Sounds, Words and Phrases give you a few more ideas but please add your own and remember to have fun conversations about whatever comes up in daily life with your child.

• Chit Chat - Learning to Listen

Ling sound sheets: The Ling sounds can be used as a very quick daily listening check to make sure the technology is working.

• Chit Chat - Ling Sounds

Fridge-notes: You can stick the fridge-notes on the notice board or on the fridge to show everyone the listening strategies they can use. The “Magic moment…” and “Star quality…” notes are your chance to show off your great skills and your child’s progress.

• Chit Chat - Fridge notes

First words record: can be used to record the first words your child will say, these will include single words, perhaps some frozen phrases and eventually true word combinations.

• Chit Chat - First Words

"Why use questionnaires?
We want to listen to parents and to find out what they think is important and / or needed in their child’s rehab." - Clare Allen, LEAP author.

Parents: Use this as a tool to self-evaluate and to reflect on what you are doing that are helpful for your child and opportunities to move forward, as well as to share with interested professionals.

• Listen with your child
• Expand the building blocks of language
• Achieve communicative independence
• Promote Yourself