Auditory Processing Disorder
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Effective Auditory Processing Therapy for Children in Chicago IL
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This is not a hearing problem.
Does your child have a problem understanding spoken words when they are in a crowd with others talking? Does your child have a problem distinguishing different sounds? Does your child have sensitivity to certain sounds?
These may be indications of an auditory processing disorder. This is not necessarily a hearing deficiency as much as it is the inability to process the sounds that they can in fact hear. If a child has issues processing the sounds they hear, this will affect their ability to communicate.
If this sounds like something your child is dealing with, contact us today and schedule an appointment. I can help with Auditory Processing Disorder and make sure your child is on a program to deal with this.
How Do We Help with Auditory Processing Disorders? Read More Below.
EVIDENCE BASED THERAPY
Individual Treatment Plans For Unique Client Needs.
Our approach involves the entire family with an emphasis on your unique needs.
Our clinic starts by confirming the child’s hearing is normal (often coordinating with an audiologist), then completes a targeted listening-and-language evaluation. This looks at how the brain handles competing speech, fast speech, and degraded signals, alongside language, attention, and memory skills that can influence listening. From that profile, the clinician sets functional goals—e.g., following directions in noise, understanding rapid talkers, or keeping up during class discussions.
Treatment usually blends “bottom-up” auditory training with “top-down” language and strategy work. Bottom-up work might include exercises for sound discrimination, temporal processing (order/spacing of sounds), and binaural skills (listening with both ears in noise or to different messages). Top-down supports build vocabulary, syntax, listening comprehension, working memory, and note-taking; students learn metacognitive strategies like requesting clarification, chunking information, and previewing new vocabulary.
Because listening happens in real life—often in noisy rooms—we also coach environmental and tech supports: improving classroom acoustics/seating, using visual cues, and, when appropriate, trying remote-microphone/FM systems. Families get brief, targeted home practice (short daily listening tasks, language games, strategy checklists), and progress is monitored every few weeks so activities can be made harder, easier, or generalized to schoolwork. If attention, anxiety, or reading issues also show up, the SLP coordinates with audiology, psychology, and education staff for a fuller plan.
Learn more about communication skills and disorders at the ASHA website.
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