Posts Tagged ‘auditory processing’

What is Visual Processing Disorder?

Many children with autism, SPD, and ADHD also have an underline disorder of visual processing disorder that is often missed and even misdiagnosed. I have heard parents in my Special Needs playgroup tell me that their Occupational Therapist’s respond to them with comments like “oh, he just...
September 19th, 2009 | Special Needs | Read More

What is Auditory Processing?

Auditory Processing, like visual processing, can be difficult to diagnose. In fact, auditory processing most often goes hand in hand with visual processing disorder because they are both neurological disorders and the problems actually overlap in the areas of memory, discrimination, attention, and language....
September 17th, 2009 | Special Needs | Read More

Book Review: Of Different Minds

It can feel overwhelming when your child first receives a learning difference diagnosis such as ADD/ADHD, Dyslexia or Sensory Processing Disorder.  Of Different Minds: Seeing Your AD/HD Child Through the Eyes of God by Maren Angelotti, M.A.T. reminds parents that God does not make mistakes, then guides...
June 23rd, 2009 | Feature | Read More

Interventions for auditory processing

Now that you know a little about Auditory Processing (and I say little because there is too much information out there that I have only scratched the surface) where do you go to get help? Unfortunately, audiologists can not make a reliable diagnosis of Auditory Processing Disorder, or Central Auditory...
April 24th, 2009 | Special Needs | Read More

Areas of Difficulty in Auditory Processing

Common Areas of Difficulty: Phonological Awareness: Inability to recognize or isolate individual sounds in a word, recognize similarities between words, or identify syllables in words. Auditory Discrimination: Inviability to recognize different sounds and identify words that are different from each...
April 23rd, 2009 | Special Needs | Read More

Phoneme Use in the English Language

Never heard of a phoneme, have you? In the human language, a phoneme is the smallest unit of sound and is one of the MOST important aspects of learning to read because without learning how to isolate individual sounds a child can not learn to connect units of sound or isolate units within larger groups...
February 2nd, 2009 | Feature | Read More