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My difficult child wants to thank you guys! (Especially IC and other 'Auditory Processing Disorders-experts')
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 605406" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I am so glad that this helped. In many ways the language barrier may be a gift in disguise because it gives a bit of tolerance. </p><p></p><p>I didn't know the term for it was auditory figure ground, but I was aware of it early on because my grands were losing their hearing when I was a child/preteen. As we spent several weeks a year with them, and treasured them and every minute of that time, we got to go to their senior center and sit in on things like lipreading classes. I loved them. When it was explained that it was helpful because it can be hard to distinguish a speaker from background noise when you are losing your hearing or get a new hearing aid because the noises all blend at the same intensity/volume. It was an "aha!" moment that made me not feel so alone and freaklike even if the people I know who had the same issue were older by a couple of generations. Later my mom explained that it was like not having any filters in place and on bad days we called it having our filters go down or need to be cleaned. She has always had this problem also. It made it easier for my folks not to get angry if we didn't do something because they assumed we didn't hear them rather than we ignored them. I won't say that it was always true, cause lightning would strike me, but it was mostly true.</p><p></p><p>I am glad he finds it helpful. I think it is awesome that he is socially aware enough to realize how helpful it is and how you had to ask around to figure out what is going on, and that he then wanted to say thank you. I know a lot of "easy child" kids who wouldn't do that, Know what I mean??</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 605406, member: 1233"] I am so glad that this helped. In many ways the language barrier may be a gift in disguise because it gives a bit of tolerance. I didn't know the term for it was auditory figure ground, but I was aware of it early on because my grands were losing their hearing when I was a child/preteen. As we spent several weeks a year with them, and treasured them and every minute of that time, we got to go to their senior center and sit in on things like lipreading classes. I loved them. When it was explained that it was helpful because it can be hard to distinguish a speaker from background noise when you are losing your hearing or get a new hearing aid because the noises all blend at the same intensity/volume. It was an "aha!" moment that made me not feel so alone and freaklike even if the people I know who had the same issue were older by a couple of generations. Later my mom explained that it was like not having any filters in place and on bad days we called it having our filters go down or need to be cleaned. She has always had this problem also. It made it easier for my folks not to get angry if we didn't do something because they assumed we didn't hear them rather than we ignored them. I won't say that it was always true, cause lightning would strike me, but it was mostly true. I am glad he finds it helpful. I think it is awesome that he is socially aware enough to realize how helpful it is and how you had to ask around to figure out what is going on, and that he then wanted to say thank you. I know a lot of "easy child" kids who wouldn't do that, Know what I mean?? [/QUOTE]
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