Dr. Donna Geffner
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first heard Feb 2020
last heard Feb 2020
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So they send them home and say, okay, well, his hearing is normal.
I mean, we don't understand it.
Maybe it's ADHD.
Well, it can be because we have a lot of comorbidities with this, but it also can be an auditory processing disorder.
And I want people to understand, professionals, teachers, parents, that this exists.
This is not a language disorder or can be associated with one, but it is an entity that stands alone as a disorder.
And that is the inability to
to take in the auditory information and derive clarity from it, be able to listen under difficult listening conditions.
And according to the American Speech Language and Hearing Association and the American Academy of Audiology, we see this occurring in youngsters and adults, and they are a heterogeneous group, and often it is a very silent disability because we can't
recognize it easily youngsters may very well sit in a classroom be quiet and not participate and one of the reasons is that they're just not hearing the teacher clearly so it usually comes from children who have had long-standing otitis media with fluid or other problems in development
neurodevelopment, immaturity of the auditory system, a myriad of reasons.
And in the same token, it can come from parental and familial genetic tendencies, and often we don't always know.
But we do know that there is a neurobiological reason for the interruption of the auditory system that we do.
reaches the brain, and it's the brain that does the interpretation.
The brain is what does the information and processing of the information.
But getting the message there requires clarity, it requires speed, it requires integration of both ears and both acoustic hemispheres, auditory hemispheres, in order to do that.
And for many youngsters, this is an issue and a problem.
And many show up when they reach upper grade, sometimes when the work gets harder or the environment is more noisy and it's more information to process that we begin to see these breakdowns.
in their ability to attend and focus and listen.
These are your listening individuals who tend to ask what, who tend to say, can you say it again?
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