These procedures involve various kinds of activities like phoneme recognition and phonemic synthesis training, training to improve word recognition in noisy background, improving short-term auditory memory, etc. APD Therapyįollowing the APD assessment, the audiologist will discuss therapy procedures for improving specific auditory processing skills. This assessment will take into account your responses from the screening questionnaire, along with a personal consultation and will be performed by an audiologist who has received specialized training in assessing and treating APD.
Since auditory processing difficulties and symptoms vary widely from one person to another and also across age groups, you will receive a complete assessment program which includes a series of tests designed to evaluate auditory processing skills in different areas. The entire testing process usually takes up to 1 hour. We perform a detailed assessment of auditory processing function. The preliminary screening could be done by completing a screening questionnaire please contact us to obtain your copy. Screening would help in identifying those for whom a comprehensive auditory processing evaluation is warranted, while, at the same time reduces the number of inappropriate referrals. If an adult or a child exhibits any of the signs and symptoms, it would be helpful to screen for APD in order to rule out the need for a comprehensive diagnostic assessment.
People with auditory processing disorder difficulties often have normal hearing sensitivity but their brain struggles to interpret, organize, and remember what is said, especially in background noise. In short, it can be simply defined as a problem with “what the brain does” with “what it hears”. By: Lalsa Perepa, Doctor of Audiology What is APD?Īuditory Processing Disorder (APD) is when someone has difficulty processing or interpreting sounds by the brain, despite having normal hearing.