Now that you know a little about Auditory Processing (and I say little because there is to much information out there that I have only scratched the surface) where do you go to get help?
Unfortunately, audiologists can not make a reliable diagnosis of Auditory Processing Disorder, or Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD), until a child is seven (and it takes specialized testing) because of the way the neurological system develops. However, visual processing can be diagnosed early and a neurologist can determine if a child will or is having trouble processing auditory information.

Auditory Processing, like visual processing, can be difficult to diagnose. In fact, auditory processing most often goes hand in hand with visual processing disorder because they are both neurological disorders and the problems actually overlap in the areas of memory, discrimination, attention, and language. Most often, these disorders are treated simultaneously or if a child has one of the disorders but not the other he/she is treated with the same strategies that one might use for both.

What are the problems your child will face?
1. Visual Discrimination: problems identifying color, form, shape, size, position and where an object is in its environment. Difficulty gathering information from graphs, charts, and pictures and recognize shapes, letters, or objects when there is a background.
2. Visual Closure: Inability to identify or recognize a symbol or object when the entire object is not there. For example, AJ can not tell me what is missing from a face if the nose is not there.
3. Object recognition: Inability to recognize familiar objects. Some researchers believe that this is due to visual memory or …read more