Novick will schedule a 30-minute phone conversation with you in order for her to gain insight into what your or your child’s needs are. The child must be at least 5 years of age to undergo a complete APD assessment at Silicon Valley Hearing, Inc.
AUDITORY PROCESSING DISORDER HEARING AID PROFESSIONAL
An audiologist should be the final professional you or your child sees for diagnosis of an APD.
If you or your child’s teacher suspect an auditory processing disorder, your child will need to undergo testing by a speech-language pathologist and an educational psychologist prior to being evaluated by Dr. Does not get the “gist” of jokes/humor or understand sarcasm.problems with phonics, reading comprehension, spelling and writing skills, and understanding math word problems) Difficulty following multi-step verbal instructions.Inability to listen for long periods of time.Often says “What?” or asks for constant repetition.Does not like loud sounds (often covers their ears).Easily distracted by background noise and avoids social situations.Delayed speech and/or language development.It is our job to help determine which skill areas are affected and to help you plan what’s needed to improve your or your child’s auditory processing abilities. These tests give us the ability to assess the auditory skills of decoding, integration and prosody. Several core tests are administered, in which you or your child are asked to repeat back information (words, numbers and pitches) presented to each ear individually or both ears binaurally.
You will be tested using headphones in a sound proof booth. Manifestations of APD include delayed auditory development, learning problems and poor academic performance.Īn APD test battery includes tests designed to challenge the auditory processing pathway. APD is simply a disruption within auditory processing pathway that causes a breakdown in the brain’s ability to piece together the acoustic puzzle correctly. Somewhere along the way, sounds get jumbled and mixed up. While you or your child may have normal peripheral hearing (cochlea or sound organ), the dysfunction occurs beyond the cochlea in the central auditory processing pathway, which encompasses all the anatomical and processing mechanisms between the cochlear nuclei (in the brainstem) to the auditory cortex (auditory processing center of the brain). The brain is responsible for collecting and processing all the information it receives to paint the beautiful picture of our world. Our brains have this magical way of stringing together individual complex beads of sounds, process those sounds and give us the ability to understand words, ready a story and sing a song. It’s how we can determine what the sound is and determine what we need to do with it. Along the way, the central auditory pathway is responsible for decoding each individual sound, which allows our brain to attach meaning to a particular sound. Our ears are busy with the task of sending sounds from our outside world to the brain.
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