Improving listening skills
Students with auditory processing disorders often struggle with listening skills. As an example, "Go read a book" or "Go read a pook" are the same sentence with one sound change. In this example, one sound changed a meaningful sentence to one that is not meaningful. As a result, children may mishear words which affects their comprehension and understanding while learning. These children are sometimes misdiagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD), because their attention skills decrease as listening and processing what they hear is difficult for them.

Another auditory skill is listening to different words or sentences presented to each ear simultaneously (dichotic listening). A real life example of this would be a student talking on the right side of the child while a teacher is talking on the left. Having different stimuli coming in at the same time is very confusing for some children, and they may have trouble grasping any of it. Functioning in a traditional classroom setting would be quite difficult for a child that exhibits a significant issue in this area.

Filtered speech relates to understanding muffled words or words that are missing some frequencies, such as sometimes occurs when communicating with a cell phone. People with strong auditory skills in this area would be able to hear part of a word and then fill in the blanks, enabling them to understand the word even though they didn't hear it in its entirety. Those with poor auditory skills may be unable to do this. Situations such as teachers who don't speak clearly, or face the whiteboard while speaking to the class, can impact learning for these children.

Auditory figure ground relates to the ability to listen and process effectively in the presence of background noise. Students with a weakness in this area have a great deal of trouble learning in a noisy environment. These children learn better in a quiet environment, and unfortunately, most circumstances in life are not quiet. Even homeschoolers may have to contend with siblings, pets, a dishwasher, a washing machine and/or a telephone, which can all be disruptive to learning.

I noticed drastic improvements in my daughter in a few months and so did her teachers. She in now reading at grade level, enjoys school and looks forward to her classes and homework. I am most impressed with how she caught on in several months.
------- Greg G.

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