| Deficit Areas |
Academic Indications |
| Slow auditory processing speed |
- auditory discrimination difficulties
- problems with following rapid conversation
|
| Problems discriminating sound/speech |
- problems with vocabulary retention without visual cues
- problems spelling
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| Difficulties listening in noisy environments |
- problems “hearing” the teacher in noisy classrooms
- misses classroom information
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| Auditory integration |
- problems integrating visual and auditory information
- poor language comprehension
- poor auditory memory
- poor reading comprehension
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| Temporal Processing |
- poor comprehension of figurative language
- problems identifying the main ides
- problems sequencing auditory information
- social problems
- flat affect
|
| Atypical left ear advantage |
- atypical hemisphere for language
resulting in language difficulties such as written language deficits |
| Atypical right ear advantage |
- poor auditory integration
- delayed maturation or
- disordered auditory processing system
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