I totally agree with what you are saying about ‘playing sound games’. There are several things you can do to help your son. There are some computerized programs but I like using a more interactive approach. When you use an interactive approach your son benefits from modeling as well as gets immediate feedback from you and is able see his progress daily. Here are several suggestions – I’ve done all of these with GREAT results with high school students.

1. You read content info to him or have your son listen to an audio tape (chunking the time – 5 minutes or so at a time). Then have him takes quick notes from what he heard using the fill-in-the-blank forms from Ten Minutes to Better Study Skills. The next day, have your son turn the quick notes into a summary paragraph using the forms from Ten Minutes to Better Study Skills. There are a lot of forms to choose from that help kids to take notes while they are listening as well as reading info. Practicing note taking to auditory stimulus is critical because as he gets older he will have more and more lectures in the classroom.
[I had a high school student that really struggled with this and after using the forms she started to do really well in her classes. Without the structure the forms provided, her life was much more difficult.]

2. Play the Comprehension Zone – for auditory comprehension – see the article on it here. See high schoolers + younger siblings play it here. The game comes with 3 reading levels: 2-3rd; 4th-6th; and 7th-12th grade levels.
3. Use Making Spelling Sense and Making Spelling Sense II to work on both spelling and auditory processing skills simultaneously – the books are created so all ages can use them – there is nothing ‘cutesy about them.’ I purposely designed all of my books and games for all ages – I’ve always taught from K – adult and I figured the younger students would feel like they could use older kids stuff and the older students wouldn’t feel like they had to use little kid stuff.
4. Five Minutes to Better Reading will improve fluency, accuracy, and covers every auditory phonemic component in the English language. Many adult literacy groups use it. I have had even 54 year old students use it and make progress for the first time in their lives with it. Here I’m using Five Minutes to Better Reading Skills with a 6th grader. (She is small for her age.)
5. There will be a Free Private Exclusive Training Call where I’ll be giving a lot of tips out in the next few weeks. I will be posting information on it on the blog as soon as the details are worked out.

Hope this helps.

Bonnie Terry, M. Ed., BCET