“What Are You Saying?” Auditory Processing Disorder in Children” [Video Replay & Podcast #165]

Access the video replay, listen to the podcast episode (#165), and download the slide presentation for this ADHD Experts webinar originally broadcast on October 13, 2016.

Lois Kam Heymann, M.A., CCC-SLP, speech pathologist specializing in auditory processing disorder
ADHD Expert: Lois Heymann, M.A. CCC-SLP Verified Updated on April 20, 2023
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Episode Description

Auditory processing disorder is a glitch in the brain’s ability to filter and process sounds that makes it difficult (even painful) to receive, organize, and use auditory information. Some children with APD can’t filter out background noise, making it maddening to work in a busy classroom. Other children perceive sounds incorrectly, mixing up ga and da sounds, for example. And still others forget parts of a conversation or miss verbal nuances. Roughly 7 percent of all children have some type of auditory processing difficulty, but many are misdiagnosed because their symptoms look so much like ADHD.

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Meet the Expert Speaker

Lois Kam Heymann, M.A., CCC-SLP, is a speech and language pathologist with more than 30 years experience working with children with listening, language, hearing, and learning challenges and their parents. Lois has presented hundreds of in-service workshops, seminars, and conferences, nationally and internationally, sharing her knowledge and techniques with parent groups, school systems and speech-language pathologists. She is the author of The Sound of Hope: Recognizing, Coping with and Treating Your Child’s Auditory Processing Disorder.

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