Home activities for adults to practice
following directions (both reading & listening)
Adults hate being treated like children. And, unfortunately, the most common activities (especially for Listening Skills) is geared toward kids. Here are some grown-up activities for direction following:
Make sure you're patient and give them plenty of time to answer. Wait until it's almost awkward. Let them indicate when they are ready for help. (read more benefits of the awkward silence.)

Clay Nichols
Co-founder of
MoreSpeech and
Bungalow Software
for unlimited speech therapy at home and in the clinic.
For
3 decades, Clay has helped patients, caregivers and speech pathologists
with speech & language software. He is not a speech-language
pathologist.
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