[senco-forum] Test of Auditory Analysis Skills (very long for me)

What good news!!!

- APD 'exists'!  An acknowledgement from the professionals.

- A further acknowledgement that we're still pretty much in the dark
and don't know all there is to know about it.

- Training is in progress!  The ripples that will create...fantastic.

But...I'm not making sense of that last bit - if you have a problem
with processing non-verbal sounds then you have APD but if you have a
problem with processing verbal sounds then you don't.

I'm scratching my head here.  Don't get it.  Can you enlighten me???
It almost sounds as tho you are saying if I can't tell if you're
sneezing simply by listening to you, then I have APD but that if I
can't process properly and speedily what you are saying then I don't.
LOL er...just looking at the replies so far I guess that's what you're
really saying.

For those of us who have children who cannot process verbal input and
who already have blank looks from local speech therapists, it's not
very encouraging.  My son deals with this by watching TV with the
sub-titles on - or watching the kind of material where, frankly, you
don't need to know what is being said to understand what's going on
and have a laugh (have you ever watched a comedy or a cartoon with the
sound off???)

What hope will there ever be of getting the right kind of support to
cope in the classroom?

On 12/09/2007, Mmilesep at aol.com <Mmilesep at aol.com> wrote:
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> In a message dated 12/09/2007 17:31:30 GMT Daylight Time,
> saylon_uk at yahoo.co.uk writes:
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> If  anyone has suspected auditory processing they
> should be referred for  specialist testing.
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> I recently attended a training day at Nottm university/ Queens medical
> centre to be introduced to a recently developed, computer-based screening and
> assessment tool for APD. I was the only psychologist and the other trainees were
> mostly clinic-based audiologists or others related to this field.
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> I put our devon service forward to participate in this exploratory use of
> the tool as reference was being made to memory - visual and auditory, cognitive
> skills and language skills. The day was informative and I am now in the
> position  to trial this software and plan to link up with speech and language
> therapists  and the advisory team for hearing impairment. I can also run the
> assessment  alongside out own cognitive battery of tests. It is a bit loose at the
> moment,  but I will keep the forum informed of progress and findings.
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> APD appears to be at the same place dyslexia was  25 years ago. Nobody  is
> really sure what it is and how it might be measured. There is an APD working
> party meeting on occasions, to shape up a definition. One thing which they
> seemed to have agreed upon is that APD is primarily a problem with the  processing
> of non-verbal sounds. The software deals with discriminating and  identifying
> pure sounds against background white noise. It is suggested that if  a child
> (or adult) has weaknesses with this then one of the criteria for APD has  been
> met. They were clear that if there is no problem in this area, but there is
> with the processeing of verbal sounds it was not APD, but falls under the
> remit  of the speech therapist.
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> Of course (are you still with me?) if one does have problems with  processing
> non-verbal sound then this is very likely to affect the processing of
> language.
>
> Martin, EP Devon
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> Anticipating skewed responses
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