experience of listening programmes or similar

[listeningtomusic]

Dd is nearly 5 and has very poor pronunciation most likely due to ongoing glue ear and hearing loss as the grommets seem to re block when they are replaced.

She has had over 2 years of SALT and is due to start it again in September. In the meantime I was considering trying something different such as a listening type programme. Maybe natural sounds or music. She has no attention or concentration problems but some professionals have suggested APD and she does struggle to distinguish and locate sounds but not instructions or sentences.

Does anyone have any experience of these types of programmes and any recommendations? Or any other ideas of something different to try.

[MeirEyaNewAlibi]

If the glue ear was bad enough for treatment, but grommets don't work well for her, you shouldn't just be abandoned to the speech therapy waiting lists. If there's an impact on her speech and listening, you should be offered temporary hearing aids instead till she grows out of the glue ear. Or the ent specialist should come up with some other plan. Fast

The peripatetic teacher-of-the-deaf covers all levels of hearing impairment, including the non-permanent ones, and including preschool kids. In some areas they can even issue you with various listening programmes or hire them out. Most importantly they can tell a school or nursery what to do, and professional advice (usually) is taken far more seriously than yours. Even when it's identical, and/or basic common sense.

Glue ear is like having earplugs in all the time. Hearing aids (or grommets) help but don't totally fix things. So in reception she'll probably need to be (for example) sat at the front of class, have the teacher face her to speak, have visual clues when teacher gives instructions but the rest of the class are shrieking loudly, a bit of extra 1-1 for learning some phonics sounds.