Auditory processing is what the brain does after the ear has done its job. Hearing can be intact and the sound can still arrive scrambled, delayed, or too late to be useful.
This one sits almost entirely in a single system, which is unusual and makes the plan unusually direct.
Auditory discrimination, segmenting, closure, association, prosody and phonology, and auditory sequential memory.
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The complaint is almost never about volume. It is about what happens to the sound in the fraction of a second after it arrives.
Take both free screeners first, hearing and auditory processing, because they answer different questions and the answers often disagree. After that it is Developmental Milestones under six and the Individualized NeuroDevelopmental Profile from seven upward.
For this presentation that usually means Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy, structured therapy after injury, illness or decline. Discrimination, segmenting, closure and sequential memory are trained separately, because a person can be strong in one and weak in the next.
What people ask when hearing has already been tested and something still is not landing.
Not usually, and that is why we screen both. There is a free hearing screener and a free auditory processing screener on this site. Hearing measures whether the sound arrives; auditory processing measures what happens to it afterwards.
Yes. Auditory discrimination, segmenting and sequential memory all respond to targeted remediation at any age, though the plan differs from a child’s.
Where to look. It is a short checklist, not a diagnosis, and it points at whether a full assessment is worth your time.
What we hand parents to use at home, sold through our storefront.
Ambient soundscapes recorded with violinist Cathy Morris, for quieting a busy mind into a calm focus.
$19.95 USD
A bedtime story a child breathes along with, so the breathing is learned without being taught.
$9.95 USD
Forest, ocean and sky, all three at session length, bought together.
$49.95 USD
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Hearing measures whether the sound arrives. Auditory processing measures what the brain does with it. Both are free on this site.