YES! that is part of the ideas. block off the good ear and do an ear phone for listening (or his auditory trainer on the bad ear and noise cancelling ear phones over it) then input into the left ear.
That is for helping/therapy....
BUT if the goal is to learn something in general, like in school...then it is suggested to make sure the teacher is to his right ear to avoid that having to travel to the right, then the left for language interpretation and formulation. Better to go in the right and straight to the left brain. I can see that. OF course general hearing problem accommodations like preferential seating but he is generally in very small classes anyway and gets lots of individual attention. Specifically said not to talk with their backs to him though. He will have (and does have) much more confusion then looks defiant.
it IS a brain processing issue. His acuity is fine. She did say (someone else here said this too about their difficult child) that he hears overly sensitively in the low frequencies (pitches) and so that lower pitched background noise can drive him to distraction. Explains why he covers his ears even beyond the sensory integration theory. It not only makes him sensitive it covers up the speech frequency pitches and makes it hard to listen to that.
(though he has a global injury due to high pressures, his main injury is right sided....mostly frontal/temporal lobe injury.)
There are other therapies she listed, if anyone is interested I can see if I can scan it or find a time to type them out. Some are pretty interesting. Not an exhaustive list, just a start.
