Dr. Donna Geffner
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first heard Feb 2020
last heard Feb 2020
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They're seen as, quote, special ed kids and therefore have a stigma associated with it.
And then it becomes very demoralizing to many of these youngsters.
And we find kids with low self-esteem feeling badly, feeling like they're something, they're broken.
Something is wrong with them.
It's not unusual that I've seen a child turn to his mother and cry and say, I know something's wrong with me.
Why do you have to always show me or why do I have to be different?
Good.
I'm glad to be here.
Thank you, Debbie, giving me the opportunity.
I've spent a lot of years, first I was an academic.
I was a university professor.
I was the director of the Speech and Hearing Center and graduate program in speech language pathology and audiology.
But I had an opportunity to work with a number of professionals, a psychiatrist,
psychologists over the years and we've learned that many of the youngsters who wind up with the diagnosis of adhd have auditory processing disorders and i began to study this you know it's not a new disorder this goes back to the 1950s with uh kind of michael bust who studied auditory and perception auditory agnosia
And we saw it a good deal in brain damaged individuals and individuals with aphasia.
But we find that children with no known brain dysfunction can have difficulty understanding what they hear.
It's the inability to take in the auditory message, identify it, recognize it, discriminate it, listen under difficult listening conditions, and take it in in a timely manner.
even with normal hearing.
And what is so, I guess, very confusing to a parent is oftentimes the teacher will say, you know, your child is not listening, or I have to repeat things, or he asks what.
And the parent takes the child to the audiologist or to the pediatrician, they test the child's hearing, and lo and behold, the child's hearing is normal.
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