History

Developed in the late 1970’s by Daniel Ling, an Aural Habilitation specialist who’s teaching methods are still used all around the world today.

It is a “low-tech”, daily assessment tool that can be used to check your child’s access to the range of speech sounds.
The Ling Six Sounds, /ah/, /ee/, /oo/, /sh/, /s/, and /mm/ indicate a child’s ability to detect all aspects of speech as these/ six sounds encompass the frequency range of all speech sounds needed to learn language.
What matters most are that these sounds are paired with language so that they become meaningful. So play and toys are used to create these associations.