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

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We're very fortunate to have the opportunity to research this and develop a test with Pearson Publications, which is a worldwide publisher, and studied it for four years and obtained data on hundreds and hundreds of youngsters that we can now test kids as early as three and a half, and certainly four, four and a half, and five.

And what we found is that when children are that young, we know what three and a half year old youngsters could be doing.

And they can listen in quiet and in noise.

We can test speech in noise.

And what has come out subsequent to this test, which is called the Auditory Skills Assessment,

is some work coming out of Brain Vault's laboratory at Northwestern that says that youngsters who have difficulty discriminating in noise, hearing speech in noise, are often those at risk for reading problems later on, certainly by kindergarten.

And the children who have difficulty listening in, quote, the din of the kindergarten noise are those who will have trouble in learning to read.

So there's a real connection and association between the skill,

of listening acutely and being able to read.

So my contention is let's test children as early as we can.

We see certain behavior signs.

We have tests that can give us information.

And if we find a very young child who is three and a half or four who does not perform as other youngsters his age, then he becomes an at-risk child.

And we do things to help him.

We do things to intervene.

We built up those listening skills, those early reading skills.

So by the time the child reaches kindergarten, he will be functioning like his same age peers.

And we haven't lost valuable years of neuroplasticity.

And neuroplasticity is a very critical concept.

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