[senco-forum] auditory processing

Hi Philippa,

The Listening Program/TLP is only one of the auditory  training interventions 
that are used for APD but that like any other,  may show some gains to 
varying degrees but which in the most part thesemay  be temporary, needing annual 
retraining to reboot the auduitory processing  system.

I'm sure you were informed that there is a need to use a different  set of 
CDs for those with hyperacusis as those with hyperacuisis can find the  standard 
TLP distressing, painful and disorientating. If not I wpouldrequest a  set 
for any children you come across who you wixch to pout on TLP and who suffer  in 
this way.

TLP can also undo existing coping strategies, especially in older  learners 
who have developed them and rely on them; it can leave these users  temporarily 
quite debilitated and unable to process auditorily at all for some  time. 
Greater benefits are seen in younger children who have had less time to  develop 
such unique strategies.These often involve using other parts of the  brain and 
other modalities to compensate for their auditory processing  deficits... as 
seen in the brain scans of those termed dyslexic who cope in this  way...it is 
not as some would have you believe because "dyslexics" brains work  
differently,  it is just that those who have auditory or visual processing  issues use 
different parts of their brains in order to be able to cope,  often from birth 
such as those with a strong visual/photographic memory and  develop coping 
mechanisms often unknown to them... it was a shock to my son to  find out he has 
a photographic memory and that he lipreads.

It must be noted that auditory training-indeed anything that is meant to  
retrain neural pathways, effectively tampering with the way the brain works- is  
not to be uindertaken lightly.

Best wishes,
Aly

Chair Auditory  Processing Disorder in the UK/APDUK
www.lacewingmultimedia.com/APD.htm 
www.apduk.org