Short presentation by Auditory Actions from its 2014 seminar series: helping pupils with auditory processing

1. Helping a pupil with
auditory processing
difficulties

2. Topics
 What is auditory processing?
 The importance of active listening
 The classroom general strategies
 Assessments
 Specific remediation strategies

3. How does it present in the classroom
setting
 Difficulty in following instructions
 Auditory memory poor
 Difficulty in paying attention when there is any level of noise
 May behave as if they have a hearing loss even though hearing is normal
 Weakness in working memory and perceptual reasoning
 Weakness in vocabulary
 Difficulty with comprehension

4. Type of listening skills
 Critical listening
 Active listening
 Informative listening for instructions
 Appreciative listening

5. Auditory processing difficulty?
POSSIBLY!HOWEVER……..
Be a pure auditory difficulty
Coexist with other non auditory disorders and can be overlooked such as ADHD
Primarily APD but with facts similar to other problem and be misdiagnosed such
as dyslexia/language impairment
Co-exist with a measurable hearing loss

6. Management of APD seen as a tripod
• Environmental modifications
• Remediation activities direct intervention
• Compensation strategies – designed to improve access to and use of auditory
information

7. And another thing…..
There are different types of APD which need different
types of remediation
Integration
Prosody
Decoding
memory

8. Generally Need to focus on
Following instructions
Remembering from text
Drawing from description both pupil and teacher
Working memory
Auditory closure possibly
Extending vocabulary