Some children with APD also have trouble screening out background noise, so they pick up bits of surrounding sounds. Rather, her brain perceives the sounds incorrectly, affecting the child’s ability to distinguish between similar sounds (da and ga, for example). An APD child doesn’t have difficulty hearing or selective hearing - in fact, in most cases, her hearing is good.
Roughly 7 percent of children have some type of auditory hypersensitivity or processing difficulty.īut what is it exactly? At its most general, APD is a glitch in the brain’s ability to filter and process sounds and words. While APD isn’t as well known as ADHD, it is becoming increasingly common. Henry does have ADHD, but an audiologist has also diagnosed him with something called auditory processing disorder (APD). This sounds like a classic profile of attention deficit disorder ( ADHD or ADD), right? Well, yes and no. When he’s doing homework, she says, “He uses every little sound as an excuse to delay getting down to work.” Even the dishwasher distracts him, despite the fact that the kitchen is on the other side of the house. He gets cranky and lashes out at classmates who “are yelling at me and telling me what to do.” His mother has noticed similar behaviors at home. Henry is fidgety and distractible during classroom activities, according to his second grade teacher. During gym class, he’s hypersensitive.
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