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 other. ie: bed is different than head but they sound the same.

Auditory Memory: Inability to follow verbal instructions. AJ has trouble with 1-2 step instructions unless he is also given visual cues.

Auditory Sequencing: Inability to store or reconstruct the order of things like elephant and ephelant. Can also be related to This, then This when verbally sequencing.

Auditory Blending: The process of blending sounds to form words. Children with APD will have great difficulty with this and may often just memorize the words.