Anne Dixey writes in The Times on Saturday 1st March 2008 on APD.
This is how they describe auditory processing disorder. " Hearing starts in the ear, sounds are sent to the brain and the brain interprets them so we can understand. In a child with APD, the brain has difficulty translating the sounds."
Certainly there is not a high awareness of it in amongst education professionals. It is often confused with attention issues and dyslexia.
In short the brain has difficulty processing information that it hears. We have a paper on APD that goes into the condition. Please email me john @ neuron-learning.co.uk for a copy.
The full article is archived here
The Times article link is here
