TPP 196a: Understanding Auditory Processing Disorders with Dr. Donna Geffner
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is auditory processing disorder and why is it often misunderstood?
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Hey, it's Debbie. Today I'm sharing a Playback Friday episode. It's a powerful conversation from Deep in the Tilt Parenting Podcast archives. Unless you're a longtime listener, you likely haven't heard this one yet. And even if you have, I bet you'll get something completely different from it this time around.
They're seen as quote special ed kids and therefore have a a stigma associated with it. And then it becomes very demoralizing to many of these youngsters. And we find kids with low self esteem feeling badly, uh feeling like they're something they've broken, uh something is wrong with them. It's not unusual that I've seen a child turn to his mother and cry and say, I know something's wrong with me. Why do you have to always show me or why do I have to be different?
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Reaver, and this week I am talking with Dr. Donna Geffner, a speech language pathologist and audiologist and renowned expert on audio processing disorder. Dr. Gefner is the author of five books and over 300 publications on auditory processing disorders, ADHD and language disorders in children. In almost two hundred episodes of the podcast, this is the first time I'm covering APD. And Dr. Gefner, as a former president of the American Speech Language Hearing Association, is a fountain of clinical information and research.
In our conversation, we talk about what audio processing disorder is, how to recognize it in kids, why it's often misdiagnosed, as well as the best support and accommodation practices for school and at home. This is a fascinating jam-packed conversation with one of the world's top voices on APD. I hope you get a lot out of it. And now here is my conversation with Dr. Gefner. Hello, Donna. Welcome to the podcast.
Good, I'm glad to be here.
Well, I'm so pleased to bring you on the show. As I was mentioning before I hit record, I had heard you speak at Tika's conference last month, and I was just kind of blown away by what you shared, and this is a new topic for me and for the show. And so I'm really excited that you were able to come on and share with us today. So just maybe take a few minutes and tell us about the work that you do. in the world and who you work with and maybe why you're on a mission to to do this work.
Thank you, Debbie, giving me the opportunity. I've spent a lot of years. First I was a uh academic. I was a university professor. I was the director of a speech and hearing center and a graduate program in speech language pathology and audiology. But I had an opportunity to work with a number of professionals, i.e. a psychiatrist, psychologists over the years, and we've learned that many of the youngsters who wind up with a diagnosis of ADHD have auditory processing disorders. And I began to study this. And you know, it's not a new disorder. This goes back to the nineteen fifties with uh Hiram Michael B. us who studied auditory and per perception, auditory hypnosia, um and we saw it a good deal in brain damaged individuals and individuals with aphasia, but we find that children with no known uh brain dysfunction can have difficulty understanding what they hear.
It's the inability to take in the auditory message, identify it, recognize it, discriminate it, listen under difficult listening conditions and And take it in in a timely manner. Ah, even with normal hearing. And what is so un I guess very confusing to a parent is oftentimes the teacher will say, You know, my your child is not listening or I have to repeat things or he asks what.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is auditory processing disorder and why is it often misunderstood?
0:00–4:56
2
How can parents recognize the early signs of APD in their children?
4:56–9:59
3
What does a comprehensive APD assessment involve beyond a standard hearing test?
9:59–15:48
4
Why are children with APD at higher risk for reading difficulties?
15:48–21:36
5
What classroom accommodations best support students with auditory processing challenges?
21:36–27:14
6
How does APD overlap with ADHD and how can clinicians differentiate them?
27:14–32:15
7
What at‑home therapies and technologies help improve auditory processing skills?
32:15–37:08
8
Where can parents find reputable resources and professional support for APD?
37:08–41:26
Speakers
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