GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Auditory Discrimination: This is the ability to notice and distinguish between distinct and separate sounds.

Detailed explanation-2: -Definition. Auditory discrimination is the ability to recognize differences in phonemes (the smallest unit of sound in a language), including the ability to identify words and sounds that are similar and those that are different.

Detailed explanation-3: -What Is Auditory Discrimination? If a child was reading a book about flowers that included a section about bees, for example, they would need to be able to notice that the word “bees” is made up of three sounds “b, ‘’ “ee” and “zz."

Detailed explanation-4: -The ability to realize the difference between similar-sounding speech sounds and words, or other sounds. Auditory discrimination gradually develops in preschool age and the ability to determine sounds in words correctly is a prerequisite to learning to read.

Detailed explanation-5: -This is an activity to help students differentiate and produce the short / I / sound as in ‘milk’ and the longer / i: / sound as in ‘beef’, although it can be adapted to any pair of sounds which your students have differentiation problems with.