Dr. Donna Geffner

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 196: Understanding Auditory Processing Disorders with Dr. Donna Geffner · 17 Feb 2020 podcast

Yes, that is true.

But then we can't negate the fact that it's not necessarily either or, uh,

Years back when I was a university professor and I had the wonderful help of grad assistants, we looked at over 425 files of individuals who had auditory processing disorders in my caseload, and we found 42% of them had diagnosed ADHD, and another 42% did have

attention factors but not necessarily diagnosed because either they were not seen by a psychiatrist or psychologist but their symptoms were presented as as if they had attention deficit so um

That's about, if we wanted to add it up, we've got like 84% hit rate.

Now, I will say that a published study by Shalmar et al.

in 2006, in Journal of American Speech Limitation Association Journal of Research, did indicate that when she looked at 100 children who were diagnosed with central auditory processing disorder, only 4% of that population had no other comorbid conditions.

And the most common comorbid conditions were reading disability and ADHD.

Now, the way I like to differentiate it is ADHD is a problem in self-regulation.

We often see a lot of executive function problems.

So if a youngster comes in and has difficulty, and they have very shared common symptoms, that is, a child with ADHD will not necessarily pay attention to auditory stimuli,

will easily be distracted by auditory stimuli, will ask a lot of what's, will say a lot of wait, what questions.

They need repetition.

So they present with very similar symptoms.

But the way I differentiate it is that

There's an organizational characteristic to ADHD.

These are kids who can't self-regulate, poor organizational skills, difficulty in prioritizing, difficulty in finishing or initiating a task.

And a child with an auditory processing disorder doesn't necessarily have these behavioral symptoms.

They may, but it's not a primary symptom of their disorder.

So there are differences.

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