1 / 7

Auditory Processing Disorder

Ann Morrison, Ph.D. Auditory Processing Disorder. Auditory Discrimination. http ://www.sounddogs.com/sound-effects/59/mp3/607974_SOUNDDOGS__su.mp3 http ://www.sounddogs.com/previews/25/mp3/229550_SOUNDDOGS__vo.mp3 What are the people saying in the clips?

mardi
Télécharger la présentation

Auditory Processing Disorder

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Ann Morrison, Ph.D. Auditory Processing Disorder

  2. Auditory Discrimination • http://www.sounddogs.com/sound-effects/59/mp3/607974_SOUNDDOGS__su.mp3 • http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/25/mp3/229550_SOUNDDOGS__vo.mp3 • What are the people saying in the clips? • If this was the way your brain processed language, how would it impact your daily life?

  3. Case Study: Clay • How did Clay’s APD present itself? • What did Clay’s family think? • What was Clay’s family’s response? • How was Clay’s APD diagnosed?

  4. APD & Reading • The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) describes APD as occurring when difficulties in one or more of the following areas are observed: auditory discrimination; sound localization; auditory pattern recognition; decreased auditory performance in the presence of background noise, competing acoustic signals and/or degraded acoustic signals (ASHA, 1996)

  5. Principles of APD (also called Central Auditory Processing Disorder) • Auditory processing disorders take place in the brain, not in the ear • Often impacts a student’s phonological awareness which is one of the primary skills used in sounding words out and spelling

  6. Assessing APD • Assessing APD • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ZC2rztnyQ • What are some of the key distinctions that need to be made in order to diagnose APD? • What other disabilities can it appear to be?

  7. Summary of APD • Can present as other disabilities such as phonological processing, hearing impairment, and autism spectrum disorders • Requires assessment by an audiologist and specialist in speech and language disorders • Requires specialized speech and language therapy for remediation • Impacts multiple areas of a person’s life

More Related