Learning troubles

[thankful4god]

My daughter is experiencing learning troubles at school.
Her teacher spoke to me yesterday and said that I should get her tested for Auditory Processing problems.
Has anyone had experience with Auditory Processing Problems or know what it is all about?

 

[jgonz]

I don't know exactly what Auditory Processing Problems is supposed to be, but it _sounds_ like "your daughter isn't listening to instructions". How old is your DD?

You know, it could be something as simple as she's just not Ready for the grade she's in, or she's bored and doesn't listen, or she's too busy doing other things to listen. Shoot, half my kids have gone through phases where they didn't listen to me, and they weren't tested for anything! This "testing" kids for everything under the sun just to label them drives me Nuts.

Sorry. Off my soapbox now.

 

[illudium_phosdex]

My son was diagnosed with high functioning autism about 6 months ago and that is one of the problems he supposedly has. I really don't know exactly what it means but I was given some things to do that would help him by the psychologist who diagnosed him. Whether he is HFA or not, the tricks work.

1.) I'll tell him to do something and he is completely in his own world and doesn't hear a thing. So I have him look strait at me and he can't look away until I am done talking. Then I have him tell me in his own words what I said. I can't have him just repeat what I said because then he is just echoing and still doesn't know what was said.
2.) When I can tell he's going off into la la land while we are doing school or what ever, I have him take his hands and touch all of his finger tips to each other kind of in front of his chest. For what ever reason this pose focuses a person's attention.

 

[CelticRose]

Some kids just don't fit well into the *sit down, sit still, be quiet* routine of school, get bored & tune out. Your daughter's *problem* may be the teacher ~ or the school; maybe both.

 

[lucypevensie]

My 10 year old daughter has learning issues as well. She is not officially diagnosed with auditory processing disorder (or any disability, for that matter), but I think she shows some signs of that, based on what I have read.

My daughter learns best when she is sitting one-on-one with an instructor. In school she gets all her math one-on-one with a teacher. Otherwise, repetion, repetition, repetition... She needs to hear and say things many times before it sticks in her mind. She'd be a great candidate for homeschooling, but I am not a good candidate for a homeschooling mom, so for now the help she gets at school is what works best.

This problem she has is not a behavioral one. She can sit still and look you in the eye and not wiggle. But if you ask her to repeat back something you've been talking about for the last 5 minutes there's a good chance she won't have a clue what you've just said, or she might remember some key words but miss the whole point. It's very strange and frustrating for her as well as for myself (this is why I would be a horrible teacher for her).

Despite those challenges we have found some things that she excells at, and she has surprised me many times. She is good at arts and crafts, she does pretty well on the clarinet and reading the music for that, and she can be a good writer.