by Bonnie Landau | Oct 7, 2018 | Accommodations, Auditory Processing, Blog, Classroom Help, Coping Strategies, Sensory Processing
Many people with APD (auditory processing disorder) suffer from hyperacusis (sensitivity to sound) and difficulty understanding in noisy situations (auditory figure-ground issues). For child this is especially difficult because school is filled with all sorts of loud...
by Bonnie Landau | Apr 15, 2018 | Accommodations, Auditory Processing, Blog, Classroom Help, Learning Disability
Help for learning disabilities are often called accommodations. Accommodations are ways of modifying environment to assist with overcoming the challenges of a learning disability. For example, if a person has difficulty hearing when competing noise is present,...
by Bonnie Landau | Nov 30, 2017 | Auditory Processing, Blog, Learning Disability
Audiologists have not determined exactly what causes auditory processing disorder (APD), although there has been some consensus that there are two primary types: Acquired APD: The child was born with normal auditory function, but at some point the hearing system was...
by Bonnie Landau | Nov 18, 2017 | Auditory Processing, Blog
Auditory processing disorder (APD) is one of the lesser known disabilities, but more and more it is being identified as the root cause of learning challenges. The most common type of APD is difficulty understanding language in the presence of competing sounds. There...
by Bonnie Landau | Apr 28, 2017 | Attention Problems, Auditory Processing
Q: My daughter is in 7th grade and she has a habit that is really causing problems socially. When doing independent work in class, she constantly hums. She also does this when doing her homework at home. She’s done this for as long as we can remember, but now in...
by Steve Weed | Feb 28, 2016 | Auditory Processing, Blog
Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) is not an issue of poor hearing, but an issue with how the brain interprets the nerve signals from the ear. APD challenges are most often seen with spoken speech since the differences between speech pronunciation can be subtle and...
by Bonnie Landau | Jul 13, 2015 | Auditory Processing, Blog, TBI
This is incredible! I just read this article in The Hearing Journal that states this statistic: 55% of patients with acquired traumatic brain injury have central auditory processing disorder. The article is written from the perspective of testing the auditory system...
by Bonnie Landau | Jul 15, 2012 | Auditory Processing, Blog
Last week I read a story that brought tears to my eyes because it involved changing the perceptions of a very young girl, Grace. Almost 11 years old, Grace has been diagnosed with auditory processing disorder (APD). Her parents have done a lot to try and help her, but...
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