Causes of Attachment Disorders in Adoption
Neglect
•Abuse
•Separation from the primary caregiver
•Changes in the primary caregiver
•Frequent moves and/or placements
•Traumatic experiences
•Maternal depression
•Maternal addiction – drugs or alcohol
•Undiagnosed, painful illness such as …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 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 …read more
Causes of Auditory Processing
Causes of Auditory Processing Disorder:
Although the causes are not known it is known that APD is neurological. Some possible speculations for APD are head trauma, lead poisoning, and chronic ear infections. It can also be inherited or genetic.
