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

five out of seven days a week for 30 minutes a day over several weeks to several months.

You can do programs like CAPDOTS, which work on dichotic skills and integration.

There's other CD programs out there like from the Care Builders, biological awareness, aerobics.

People still have the program and the computer compatibility with that.

There are lots of good apps out there, pocket phonics,

and pocket phonics sentences.

So there's lots of programs that will build up the auditory skills for phonics, following directions, working on discrimination skills, working with speech-language pathologists on listening better in noise and bigger ground skills,

and then ultimately on language skills.

Keep in mind, many of these youngsters, because they don't always get the message clearly, don't always use appropriate social language.

They don't always pick up on nuances or sarcasm.

So that's where a speech-language pathologist can help.

play a role in helping that youngster to make those discrimination judgments and to understand when something was said sarcastically as opposed to a real answer.

So helping that youngster make those discrimination judgments is very important in a therapeutic approach.

Yes, well, for one, I think they should know about our national associations.

The American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association does have guidelines.

You could go into their website, ASHA.org, under Consumer, and pull up information about auditory processing disorders.

The American Academy of Audiology also has a website.

One can pull up information for the consumer about auditory processing disorders.

There's the IGAPS group, International Group of Auditory Processing Specialists, that do communicate.

I'm on their wonderful listserv, and so we talk to each other all over the world, and we share our experiences and our knowledge, and it's become a true community of those of us who do auditory processing testing.

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