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Insane, you were right--he's got auditory processing disorder
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<blockquote data-quote="soapbox" data-source="post: 549624" data-attributes="member: 13003"><p>Mind if I chime in, whatamess?</p><p>I know Terry won't mind if we hijack her thread a tiny bit...</p><p></p><p>The classical form of Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) involves the way the brain processes verbal language. This one is usually caught, because it affects both listening, and speech.</p><p></p><p>However, the disorder is not "speech processing disorders", it's "auditory processing disorders". I think there's something like 4 or 5 different ones - I don't have my copy of the report at hand to refer to. But... one of these other ones is "auditory figure ground" - and it is not uncommon, but not commonly tested for. Even the PhD-level audiologist who did our diagnosis, told us that she should be seeing a LOT more kids than she does... they just don't get referred. </p><p></p><p>Auditory figure ground is where the language processing works fine, but the noise processing does not. In other words, working one-on-one in a separate, quiet room works quite well with these types of kids - working in a noisy (the best ones are noisy, the rest are worse) classroom, they can't pick out what the teacher is saying. Or maybe they can, on Monday morning... definitely NOT by Friday afternoon. When you have to put so much effort into just trying to figure out what the right sounds are, you don't end up with much brain-power left to process what you heard. So... steps of instructions get missed, or misinterpretted... and that's if you caught anything at all.</p><p></p><p>If they are not testing for auditory figure ground, then they are not testing for the expanded list of APDs.</p><p></p><p>This is not caught by a regular audiologist. It takes a specialist who knows APDs inside and out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soapbox, post: 549624, member: 13003"] Mind if I chime in, whatamess? I know Terry won't mind if we hijack her thread a tiny bit... The classical form of Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) involves the way the brain processes verbal language. This one is usually caught, because it affects both listening, and speech. However, the disorder is not "speech processing disorders", it's "auditory processing disorders". I think there's something like 4 or 5 different ones - I don't have my copy of the report at hand to refer to. But... one of these other ones is "auditory figure ground" - and it is not uncommon, but not commonly tested for. Even the PhD-level audiologist who did our diagnosis, told us that she should be seeing a LOT more kids than she does... they just don't get referred. Auditory figure ground is where the language processing works fine, but the noise processing does not. In other words, working one-on-one in a separate, quiet room works quite well with these types of kids - working in a noisy (the best ones are noisy, the rest are worse) classroom, they can't pick out what the teacher is saying. Or maybe they can, on Monday morning... definitely NOT by Friday afternoon. When you have to put so much effort into just trying to figure out what the right sounds are, you don't end up with much brain-power left to process what you heard. So... steps of instructions get missed, or misinterpretted... and that's if you caught anything at all. If they are not testing for auditory figure ground, then they are not testing for the expanded list of APDs. This is not caught by a regular audiologist. It takes a specialist who knows APDs inside and out. [/QUOTE]
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