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Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) among children in kindergarten and…
Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) among children in kindergarten and elementary school
Individual Level
Teachers for students with APD
Also have their own support groups
Students with APD
Sense of confidence
Belief that they are "smart"
Feelings of support
Their understanding of APD
Level of fatigue
Coping mechanisms with frustrations
Social anxiety
Parents of children with APD
Lots of online support groups, need to be proactive, sense of responsibility on their end to help support child, need for patience as they often have to repeat of rephrase something
Lawmakers and politicians
Speech therapists
Have their own groups that they can turn to for advice
Doctors
Level of knowledge and training about APD
Ability to diagnose APD or refer students to other resources
Speech pathologists
Closely related to speech therapists
Audiologists
Requires specific training, sometimes facing bias that it is not a difficult degree or does not have significance, can specialize in a range of different areas
Institutional Level
Policies and laws
Exceptional Children’s Education Act
ECEA
House Bill 07-1244)
House Bill 08-1021
House Bill 11-1107
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
Policy/Classification debate: classify (Central) auditory processing disorder as educational problem vs specific learning disability (
https://leader.pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/leader.IN1.20052015.4
)
Should APD students get services for their learning
disability?
Board of Education
Colorado Board of
Education
Educational Audiology Services
Office of Gifted Education
Virginia Board of
Education
"Treatments" and diagnoses process among doctors and specialists
Audiology Regional Coordinators
Organizations dedicated to APD
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
Nonprofit: Able Kids Foundation (
https://www.guidestar.org/profile/20-2032734
)
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
NIDCD
Veterans Health [Administration]file:///C:/Users/tls19/Downloads/1170_02(1)_HB_2011-03-14.pdf
Department of Veterans Affairs
Hearing Center of Excellence (of the Department of Defense)(
https://hearing.health.mil/Resources/Education/Auditory-Processing-Disorder
)
Military
considerations
Colorado Schools that serve students with learning disabilities like auditory processing disorder
Private: Havern School
https://www.havernschool.org/
Private: Humanex Academy
http://humanexacademy.com/
Educational Audiology
Association
Potential contacts:
Lisa Cannon, Educational Audiologist, DPS; Audiology Coordinator, CDE; Phone: 720-424-9154
Colorado Department of Public Health and
Environment
Early Childhood Education Association of Colorado (ECEA)
Ethics
Not having proper certification
https://www.asha.org/Practice/ethics/Clinical-Practice-by-Certificate-Holders-in-the-Profession-in-Which-They-Are-Not-Certified/
Lack of "management" skills and
training
Interpersonal Level
Impact on families
Relationship within the family
Caregiver and the child needing help (i.e. parent and child)
Relationship among siblings
Relationship between caregivers (parents, or single household)
Financial impact on the family
Cost of treatments
Number of treatments they try before finding the "right" one
Cost of seeing specialists and doctors
Impact on teachers within a school
What teachers discuss during their meetings with one another
Relationship between "standard" teachers and special education teachers
Relationship between teachers and principals
Relationship between teachers and their students with APD
Relationship between teachers and APD community
Impact on educational board
Relationship among members
Their understanding of APD and level of concern about it
Their understanding of what their role is
Impact on specialists and doctors
Relationship between patient and doctor
Relationship between patient's family and the doctor
Relationship among doctors and specialists
Relationship between audiologists and language/speech pathologists
Romantic relationships
Arguing
Communication
Sense of validation/frustration
Lack of tools to prepare for these scenarios
Overall understanding of APD
How common it is
Are certain populations more at-risk?
Still looking into this but it appears that this can be acquired or developed
At what age is it normally diagnosed?
Is this something that is often overlooked?
Who usually is the person to first point out APD as a possibility?
Depends on resources of school and how proactive the adults are; typically are speech therapists and audiologists who would be most adept at first noticing
Yes as it can be combined with other areas or overlooked as someone just not listening
Need to be at least 7 but sometimes not diagnosed until adulthood or never at all
About 3-5% of young children or 0.5 to 7% of
population
Level of understanding among teachers, parents, doctors, speech therapists
There are some handouts that exist to help
Is there one standard definition for it?
What are the signs of it?
Difficulty listening, hard to focus, easily distracted, hard time processing what is being said, needs someone to rephrase what they have said, hard for them to follow directions
Treatments:
"Treatment of APD generally focuses on three primary areas: changing the learning or communication environment, recruiting higher-order skills to help compensate for the disorder, and remediation of the auditory deficit
itself"
What is the diagnosis process?
Need to be at least 7 years
old
There is a series of tests performed by a trained audiologist in APD
"Alternative treatments"
Discrepancy of what terms parents look at
"Central" auditory processing disorder
"cognitive abilities" in relation to APD
Link Title
Impact of bilingualism
Sometimes people misunderstand APD as someone just learning or familiarizing themselves with another language