PEEP This! Hide & Seek

Parent tested and approved! Did you know, playing hide-and-go-seek with children, in doors or out, can be a fun listening game and build language. We don't recommend the old fashioned silent game of hide and seek anymore. Instead, ask your child to count while you go hide. Give your child verbal cues to come find you. You can make noises of varying pitches and volumes, or you can shout hints to build language. "I'm inside something green" or "I'm near something you can wear." You can change up your hints to compliment your therapy as well from rooms of the house, to things found outside. You'll be helping your hearing impaired child build language, localize sounds, and verbalize instruction as well so be sure you take turns!

These therapy tips may or may not have come directly from a speech-language pathologist or auditory verbal therapist, nor is it meant to replace any current therapy. Should you have questions, ask your child's therapist!