Question

Please read this brief case history below and answer the following questions at the best of your ability.

A healthy, 7-year-old male is referred for assessment because of difficulties in understanding the teacher. The teacher noticed that this child has difficulty in following directions and asks for repetitions frequently. This child also has difficulty in reading aloud, and cannot sing on key. This child’s voice is somewhat monotonous, without normal inflection and prosody.

(a) Could this child have an auditory processing disorder?

(b) What are the steps for appropriate identification of auditory dysfunction?

(c) What are some tests in the auditory processing disorder test battery that should be used b the audiologist for diagnosis in this child, given the child’s auditory difficulties?

(d) What are some of the remediation tasks that a specialist can use with this child to improve auditory listening skills?

Answer 1

a, Yes, a child facing a problem with auditory processing disorder something interferes with the brain recognize the sounds especially speech.
b, -child easily distracted
-Noisy environment upset the child.
-Less performance and behavior
-Difficulty following directions
-Having difficulty with reading, writing and speaking
-Verbal communication difficulty
-child forgetful and disorganized
-Difficult concentration the conversation
c, Test battery
The audiologist will obtain a history and do the test selection. The test will examine the central process, task and multiple level searches on the central auditory nervous system.
Behavioral:
-Assess the functional capacity of the auditory system that differentiates acoustic stimuli frequency, intensity, and temporal parameters difference.
- Auditory temporal processing and pathway test assess the acoustic events overtime
-Dichotic speech test assesses the ability to separate binaural disparate auditory stimuli present in each ear.
-Monaural low-redundancy speech test to assess the degraded speech stimuli in one ear at a time
-binaural interaction test is the ability of inputs between the ears, time and intensity identical stimuli presented at the same time
-The electrophysiologic test assesses the neural process in the central auditory pathway and provides information about the integrity of the CANS.
the test battery process should not be test-driven, test in the battery measure interhemispheric transfer correlation.
The child with auditory processing disorder fails with these tests.
d, audiologist refer the child to
Auditory training therapy is an alternative treatment for kids with APD. it improves listening skills.
Educational therapy make attention to learning strategies
Speech therapy helps kids to recognize sounds better and more clear.