Dr. Donna Geffner
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303 appearances
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first heard Feb 2020
last heard Feb 2020
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Sometimes I can tell when I call the parents to schedule an appointment.
I hear the youngster in the background crying or saying, I need you, I need you, asking for attention, being disruptive, and therefore we have more of attentional or behavioral issues going on there.
But they can occur.
They can both occur.
Yeah.
And Debbie, I didn't mention, which I should have mentioned,
minute or two ago is that speech language therapy is wonderful for remediation and these are youngsters who have a phonological processing disorder that is they don't can't blend sounds together can't tell you how many sounds they hear in a word can't manipulate sounds can't
know when a sound is being deleted or added.
And these are what we know as parents may know as phonics.
Those can be taught.
That's a very successful therapy program.
There's some wonderful programs out there, the phonemic synthesis program, wonderful programs in CDs.
that have been developed to work with these skills.
And youngsters do get better.
They get better.
There's other skills that can be trained through speech and language services.
And I will say that often if we find a kid with an auditory processing disorder, we really should look at their language skills, receptive and expressive.
Many youngsters have weak comprehension and ability to understand what was said to them.
And that too can be
trained and developed and improved upon with a speech language pathologist and in addition or in concert with a speech language pathologist we often have a wonderful web-based program today lots of programs are on the web programs like fast forward which works on temporal processing and attention and sequencing memory decoding youngsters who are on it and it's a concentrated program you do a
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