2025 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 9-11, 2025 • Pittsburgh, PA
DAVID L. LAWRENCE CONVENTION CENTER
| Music is the KEY for Early Phonemic Awareness Skills
Music is the KEY for Early Phonemic Awareness Skills
According to the National Reading Panel and Science of Reading research, phonemic awareness is an essential foundational skill for developing reading and written language skills for all children. Phonemic awareness is how we manipulate and listen for individual sounds or phonemes within spoken words. Key concepts of phonemic awareness include phoneme isolation, blending, segmenting, manipulation, and rhyming. For our students who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) it is even more difficult for them to access these sounds and understand that words are made up of small segments of sounds. Phonemic awareness skills are not learned incidentally, they need to be explicitly taught. This warrants a question for classroom teachers to consider how they can make phonemic awareness instruction engaging and fun for their students. We posit the key to learning these skills but making it fun and engaging is doing it through music. Music is recognized as an evidence-based instructional tool for promoting language and literacy development in students who are DHH. The repetition of beats, rhyming sounds, and the auditory complexities of musical input promotes opportunities for students to listen to a sound input that is different than listening in a quiet environment. Through scannable QR codes on the poster, the first author will provide video examples to demonstrate how she uses songs to explicitly target phonemic awareness in her classroom. In addition to the classroom, parents and caregivers can promote phonemic awareness at home and within the child’s daily routines. The song samples provided can be implemented in both the classroom and home environments and illustrates the fun and creative ways for children who are DHH to learn foundational skills in phonemic awareness through music.
- Participants will identify the importance of phonemic awareness and why these skills need to be explicitly taught.
- Participants will discuss how music is influential for learning new skills and creating neural pathways for students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- Participants will access samples of songs that can be used in the child’s daily routine to reinforce phonemic awareness skills in an engaging way through a scannable QR code.
Presentation:
3545975_18177BrookeLouden.pdf
Handouts:
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Transcripts:
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Presenters/Authors
Brooke Louden
(Primary Presenter,Author), Utah State University , A02429622@aggies.usu.edu;
I am a second-year graduate student at Utah State University receiving my master's degree in Deaf Education. I am also a Pre-k teacher at St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Indianapolis, Indianna. I have loved working in this community, and I am looking forward to continuing learning and growing as an educator.
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Lauri Nelson
(Co-Presenter,Co-Author), Utah State University, lauri.nelson@usu.edu;
Lauri Nelson is a Professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education at Utah State University. She is the Director of the Listening and Spoken Language Deaf Education graduate training program, the Director of Sound Beginnings, and the Deaf Education Division Chair. She has a dual background as both a pediatric audiologist and LSL deaf educator.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exists.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exists.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.