What is Auditory Processing Disorder?
http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/disorders/understand-apd-child.htm
Sound localization and lateralization refers to the ability of a child or adult to
know where a sound has occurred in space. This is an important survival skill;
localization is used to identify a source of sound, like a moving vehicle or barking dog.
Auditory discrimination refers to the ability to distinguish one sound from
another. The term is most often used for distinguishing speech sounds, such as phoneme
/p/ from phoneme /b/.
Auditory pattern recognition refers to the ability to determine similarities and
differences in patterns of sounds.
Temporal aspects of auditory processing refers to the ability to sequence sounds,
integrate a sequence of sounds into words or other meaningful combinations, and
perceive sounds as separate when they quickly follow one another.
Auditory performance decrements refers to the ability to perceive speech or other
sounds when another signal is present. The other signal might be noise or another similar
speech signal, and the competing signal might be soft or loud.
Auditory performance with degraded acoustic signals refers to the ability to
perceive a signal in which some of the information is missing. A degraded signal might
be one where p
arts of the sound spectrum have been deleted, the highest or lowest
frequency components of the sound are removed, or where the sound is compressed in
time.
Go to speakingofspeech.com/home, click on "Auditory Processing", then "Filter" to practice listening activities.