Voice Production
You can imitate the vocalization, which not only acknowledges it, but also models basic imitation skills essential to acquiring speech and language. You may also say , "I hear your voice." Encourage vocalizations while playing with toys, by making car, truck, and animal sounds.

Duration
Say up, up, up while a toy airplane is raised, and a long, drawn-out down while it comes down. More duration activities may include a long vocalization such as mmmmmm as a toy car is moved along, and short ba ba ba ba as a toy rabbit, or frog hops. You can also do whole body activities, making short vocalizations as you hop or jump, and a long, continuous vocalization as you walk or run.

Intensity
Use a lion fingerpuppet, or a stuffed animal making a loud roar or a toy mouse fingerpuppet making a quiet squeak. Blow up a balloon as the child vocalizes.The balloon stays small with a quiet voice, and gets bigger as the vocalizations become louder.

Pitch
This is the most difficult nonsegmental for profoundly deaf children to master. Use a toy helicopter, and model your voice with a low pitch, changing to high as your raise the helicopter in the air. Make a Halloween ghost, by tying a tissue around a cotton ball and putting two black dots for eyes. Then, say ooooooo changing pitch as it flies high and low.

These are just a few example of how to incorporate the nonsegmentals into your child's play activities. As you look around your house and go through your daily routines you will discover more ways. You can expand the concepts of duration, intensity and pitch through listening. When you hear something, label it , and then talk about it. If you heard a siren, was it loud or quiet, high or low, long or short? Not only can these activities be fun, they will prove invaluable later, as a firm foundation for functional, intelligible speech.