The Ling–6 Sounds were devised to ensure your child can hear across the entire speech spectrum from the lowest pitched phonemes in English to the highest pitched phonemes. Ensuring your child hears all six sounds means he can hear everything you say. You can also use these sounds to determine how far away your child can be from you and still understand what you are saying. You will be introduced to distance listening in Week 6.Teaching the Ling sounds & observing child See the Appendix for a list • of toys to use for the Ling sounds. Wrap one of each toy in colourful paper that your child can open himself. Write which toy is inside each parcel and hold one up and tell the child, “Listen! I can hear an aeroplane, /arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr/”. Point to your ear and then give parcel to your child to unwrap. Once he has the aeroplane unwrapped, make the sound again, point to the plane and tell the child you can hear the aeroplane. Wait quietly now and give your child an opportunity to imitate the sound himself. Count to ten before you make the sound again yourself. Continue with remaining five parcels.Wearing the Device Your child should only take the device off for bathing, swimming and sleeping. Some • children want to sleep with device on even while they are asleep, this is fine.Broken Device Once you know your child is hearing with the device and turning to sounds in his • environment, you need to start teaching him to tell you when he cannot hear. Turn the device off sometimes during the day, present an ELTL sound that you have previously introduced and point to his ear and say, “You can’t hear”. Shake your head no and look sad. Turn the device back on and then point to his ear with a smile and say, “Oh, now you can hear”. Show the child what to do when he can’t hear, take device off and give it to you, point to his ear, shake head, etc. Anything you want him to do to indicate he cannot hear is fine.