Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation Lesson Kit #10: Fruits and Vegetables

Rehabilitation Lesson Kit 10 Fruits and Vegetables

New rehabilitation lesson kit! Get a healthy portion of fruits & vegetables with this month’s aural rehabilitation lesson kit. There’s more than 50 pages of detailed lesson plans and illustrations using fruits and vegetables to build communication skills—get your free download now!

If you’re new to our themed lesson kits, you should start with our first lesson kit. These aural rehabilitation lesson kits are designed as a therapy resource for audiologists, speech & language therapists, rehabilitation specialists, or any other professional that works with children with hearing loss.

As always, these lesson kits are available free of charge—we’re here to support your work. Get your free full lesson kit download at the bottom of this article—and don’t forget to subscribe!

Rehabilitation Lesson Kit

This month’s aural rehabilitation lesson kit is themed “Fruits and Vegetables”. You’ll be using healthy foods to build communication skills through matching challenges, a storybook to build together, role-playing games, and coloring activities.

Key aural rehabilitation strategies utilized in this lesson kit include:

  • Listening first
  • Auditory feedback loop
  • Same thinking place
  • Auditory sandwich
  • Acoustic highlighting
  • Auditory closure
  • Expansion & extension
  • Auditory memory
  • Sabotage
  • Auditory hooks

This comprehensive lesson kit is designed to be printed and reused. Every lesson kit includes lesson plans with a range of activities and therapist notes for each of the three levels. There’s also step-by-step guidance and print resources for each activity. Each lesson plan highlights useful strategies to help achieve the listening and language goals.

  • Step-by-step guides
  • 4 “Fruits and Vegetables” themed activities
  • 30+ pages of high-quality illustrations
  • Language-neutral illustrations
  • Detailed therapy notes
  • Lesson plans for each level
  • Listening goals
  • Spoken language goals
  • Cognition and theory-of-the-mind goals
  • Key therapy strategies

Each lesson kit has three levels of each activity 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 are 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.

Download Lesson Kit

All of these aural rehabilitation lesson kits are 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 aural rehabilitation resources between sessions.

We’ll post a new lesson kit for download every month here on our MED-EL Professionals Blog. There’s no deadline for downloading these aural rehabilitation resources, so you can easily find and share previous lesson kits: Lesson Kit #1, Lesson Kit #2, Lesson Kit #3, Lesson Kit #4, Lesson Kit #5, Lesson Kit #6, Lesson Kit #7, Lesson Kit #8, and Lesson Kit #9.

These lesson kits are available in multiple languages.

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Like these lesson kits or need them in a different language? Let us know in the comments below! And of course, we’re sure your colleagues would love these lesson kits—help them out and share today!

*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.

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