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Strategies
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http://www.advancedbrain.com/tlp_primetime.asp
Clicking on the above link or tv below,
will take you to a video clip showing The Listening Program being featured on a TV news programme in Australia. Tracey Butler, a TLP Provider, and some of her clients, discuss how auditory processing difficulties manifest themselves in children. They also talk of their
delight in the success they have had with TLP.
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Background
Information on
Auditory Processing DifficultiesAuditory processing is the term used
to describe the process by which the brain interprets the sounds we hear.
Auditory processing disorders
can affect development of speech, language and communication as well as reading and spelling, resulting in problems with talking
and understanding and/or dyslexia/specific learning difficulties.
Language processing
problems may be inherited. Poor listening habits, which are inefficient for language intake, may develop as
a result of repeated bouts of hearing loss or reduced hearing levels in early childhood, due for example to 'glue ear'
or regular ear infections. However, there are many people for whom there is no obvious reason
for their difficulty.
While we are still a long way from understanding
the cause of many speech and language problems, we are more able to understand the underlying difficulties that people with
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Some symptoms
of auditory processing disorder:
has difficulty listening and paying attention
misunderstands
spoken information, directions or questions
frequently asks 'Huh?' or 'What?'
is easily distracted
by background noise
finds some sounds uncomfortable or painful
has trouble hearing differences or similarities in
words
has poor phonic skills for reading
has poor auditory memory
needs to have information repeated
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How do auditory processing
difficulties affect language?
Many people
with language difficulties have problems with the processing of language. Their ability to take in, to organise, to store, to retrieve, to add to existing information and to express what
they want to say, as and when required, is weak. This
problem may manifest itself most noticeably in spoken language, in understanding what is
being said or in reading and writing.
It may in turn affect learning at school in various
ways and as such can have serious consequences for the individual. Researchers believe that this deficit in language processing
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intricately connected with the
way in which people perceive sounds especially
in childhood, thus shaping their early listening habits.
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Are you left or right-brained?
The language centres are situated
predominantly in the left hemisphere of the brain for nearly all right handed
individuals as well as for the majority of those who
are left handed. The quickest and most efficient way for language information to reach the processing
area in the left hemisphere is dominantly via the right ear. The left ear provides a supporting role. Inconsistent or left ear preference
can adversely affect the learning of language and its organisation within the brain. As
a result sounds within words, words themselves or even
whole sentences may be jumbled or in the wrong sequence.
This in turn may affect
the understanding and production of both speech and writing. Where language is poorly
organised a person will have to work hard to unravel what is said to him and may be unable
to sustain the level of concentration required to do so, thus affecting learning.
Sound
Therapy can help
Sound Therapy has been
found to benefit those individuals who have auditory
processing difficulties as described above. It can,
in turn, help improve spoken and/or written
language.
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