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<blockquote data-quote="soapbox" data-source="post: 523595" data-attributes="member: 13003"><p>I'm seeing two things in your posts...</p><p>1) Sensory issues. An Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation isn't usually that hard to get, and provides good info. Easy to test for both sensory and motor skills - and even if you don't think there is a motor skills problem, there can be subtle things. Just pays to check the whole list and know what is a problem and what is not. The Occupational Therapist (OT) has therapies that help, and can also assist with accommodations and interventions at school and home... </p><p></p><p>2) The whole "huh" thing? Sometimes there, sometimes not? Could be several things, but one option isn't so well known: Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) - auditory processing disorder. When people are aware of this, they are more used to the classical "verbal language processing" issue - but there are several others. One of these is "auditory figure ground". People who have problems in this area, usually have normal hearing (or hearing correction is in place), and normal language processing. One-on-one, in a quiet enviroment, they do well. Add background noise, and the effort to follow and absorb what is being said can be more than the brain can handle or sustain... Classrooms are notorious for background noise; most of us filter it out without conscious effort. But even outside of school, many homes are also full of background noise... the TV, radio, computer games going in the background... on top of the water running for dishes/showers/laundry, the fan on the furnace, and so on. This really can be huge. And it can have social impact, if the child finds it hard to converse or follow the ebb and flow of peers, on the playground. </p><p></p><p>Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) testing usually begins with a Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) evaluation - specifically ask about auditory figure ground "and other APDs". If the screening turns up issues, an advanced audiologist who specializes in APDs would be involved in the diagnosis. This is not treated with medications, but with accomodations (written instruction to back up verbal, for example), and often with a sound-field system or personal FM system to increase the difference between the teacher's voice and the background noise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soapbox, post: 523595, member: 13003"] I'm seeing two things in your posts... 1) Sensory issues. An Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation isn't usually that hard to get, and provides good info. Easy to test for both sensory and motor skills - and even if you don't think there is a motor skills problem, there can be subtle things. Just pays to check the whole list and know what is a problem and what is not. The Occupational Therapist (OT) has therapies that help, and can also assist with accommodations and interventions at school and home... 2) The whole "huh" thing? Sometimes there, sometimes not? Could be several things, but one option isn't so well known: Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) - auditory processing disorder. When people are aware of this, they are more used to the classical "verbal language processing" issue - but there are several others. One of these is "auditory figure ground". People who have problems in this area, usually have normal hearing (or hearing correction is in place), and normal language processing. One-on-one, in a quiet enviroment, they do well. Add background noise, and the effort to follow and absorb what is being said can be more than the brain can handle or sustain... Classrooms are notorious for background noise; most of us filter it out without conscious effort. But even outside of school, many homes are also full of background noise... the TV, radio, computer games going in the background... on top of the water running for dishes/showers/laundry, the fan on the furnace, and so on. This really can be huge. And it can have social impact, if the child finds it hard to converse or follow the ebb and flow of peers, on the playground. Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) testing usually begins with a Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) evaluation - specifically ask about auditory figure ground "and other APDs". If the screening turns up issues, an advanced audiologist who specializes in APDs would be involved in the diagnosis. This is not treated with medications, but with accomodations (written instruction to back up verbal, for example), and often with a sound-field system or personal FM system to increase the difference between the teacher's voice and the background noise. [/QUOTE]
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