Auditory proc. and sequencing disorders | Autism PDD

Hi,

Recently, my son's rate of speech has increased. This, along with the dysfluency makes him tough to understand. On Friday, he had an evaluation with a private speech pathologist. Her testing indicated that he has an auditory processing disorder and a sequencing disorder. Does anyone here have any experience with these things? He is currently getting speech at school, but the IEP goals related to that are for pragmatics, fluency, and rate of speech. Any suggestions or tips on dealing with these latest disorders would be welcomed. Thanks in advance.

Tiffany

My son has the same issues. We were given several exercices to help
improve this.

Our speech therapist actually gave us a demo of how this affected our son.
It was really interesting. Feel free to PM me if you need more details.

Anyone? Please

Thanks,

Tiffany

My biological father has audio processing disorder. He can't process information very fast, hears things wrong.
Are you sure he does not have sensory integration dyfunction/disorder (hearing,taste,smell, seeing). The reason why I ask is bec someone who has SID can fail the audio processing dysfunction test and not have APD. I was told that sequencing disorder is part of forms autism. I'll explain is if just the sequencing disorder (he has it) but if this person has other signs hmm, like more pdd. It's pdd. amberwaves39363.5173726852

http://www.aboutourkids.org/aboutour/articles/capd.html#trea tment

Don't know if you've been to this site or not but there are some useful suggestions for the APD.

hope it helps Heh, im not sure if its anything, tho ill assume it is. My entire life I act as tho I am half deaf. Not only do I hear things wrong, but also feel im a bit slow on understanding what was said and then formulating an appropriate response. It has never improved. To this day, when someone says something to me and im not ready (such as not facing them, or addressing me to initiate conversation ect...) ill say 'what' and need them to repeat what was said. I kinda heard it but need time to respond and, well... i guess process. Sometimes I think others say things 1 way but then when I act confused cause I dont understand I hear them repeat and it makes sence I just heard them wrong. This goes on my whole life, to the point where everyone thinks im hard of hearing, and i usually tell them that.

I used to think i was hard of hearing, but only recently do I see its a HFA problem, and a common one, if their is any cure, or way to deal with this im listening, although i do well enough im sure it makes it just that much harder to communicate with me, tho ppl dont seem to mind repeating themselfs half the time... I think anyone who has this will be like this for life, although it may improve a bit, so far as long as I have been an adult it never got better.... and i think never will.

Woodsman,

How did this affect you in school? Was there anything your teachers did or could have done to make it easier for you to absorb information?

Thanks,

Tiffany

We are starting the Fast Forword program with a speech pathologist to
address my sons auditory processing issues.

Thanks guys,

Amberwaves - he's definately PDD

Carol - That's an awesome website! Thanks!

CAS' mom - I PM'd you. I would love to hear what worked for your son.

Thanks again everyone!

Tiffany