Who doesn’t love free rehabilitation resources? If you’re an audiologist, speech-language pathologist, or any other rehabilitation specialist that works with children with hearing loss, our new rehabilitation resources are made for you.

We’ve created a series of themed lesson kits to support rehabilitation sessions with young children—and the first lesson kit is ready for download. We’ll be sharing a new themed lesson kit every month, and they’ll always be free to use and share.

Each lesson kit is themed (home, animals, etc.) and has multiple activities that can be used over several sessions with each child. And every lesson kit has three levels, so that you can tailor it to the abilities of each child.

My House

This first lesson kit is themed “My House” and focuses on familiar people and objects around the home. This comprehensive lesson kit is designed to be printed and reused. This kit has lesson plans with detailed therapist notes and a range of activities for each of the three levels. There’s print resources and step-by-step guidance for each activity. We’ve also included useful strategies in each lesson to help achieve the listening and language goals.

Each lesson kit has three levels to cover a wide range of listening, spoken language, and cognition abilities.

Level 1

• The child is learning to listen and attend to 1 unit of information. Spoken language is presented to the child in simple short sentences and acoustic highlighting techniques utilized to enable the child to attend to new information.
• The child is using single words, has a vocabulary of up to 200 words, and may be starting to combine words into 2 word combinations.

Level 2

• The child is learning to listen and attend to 2 units of information. Spoken language is presented in longer sentences and acoustic highlighting techniques are utilized to encourage the child to attend to all the information in the sentence.
• The child is producing 2 to 3 word combinations, has a vocabulary of 200 to 2000 words, and is beginning to use some grammatical markers.

Level 3

• The child is a proficient listener, learning to attend to 3 units of information. Spoken language is presented in a variety of complex sentences and acoustic highlighting techniques are utilized to encourage the child to attend to grammatical elements in the sentence.
• The child is producing 3 to 5 word sentences and questions, has a vocabulary of more than 2000 words, and is using a variety of grammatical markers.

Share and Download

As we mentioned before, the lesson kits will all be available free of charge—we’re here to support your work and the success of every recipient. They can be printed, emailed, shared with colleagues, and even given to parents as supplemental at-home rehabilitation resources between sessions.

We’ll post a new lesson kit for download every month here on our Professionals Blog. There’s no deadline for downloading these rehabilitation resources, so you can easily find and share previous lesson kits. These lesson kits are available in multiple languages.

Like this first lesson kit? Share with your colleagues! Need this lesson kit in a different language? Let us know in the comments below!

Ready for more? You can find all 25 themed lesson kits here!

*We’d like these kits to help as many people as possible, so the Themed Lesson Kits may be shared openly for fair usage. However, MED-EL retains full rights to the material, so the content may not be altered, rebranded, or repurposed for commercial use.

**Not all products, features, or indications for age shown are available in all areas. Please contact your local MED-EL representative for more information.