The Listening Child

About the Book

This book is a response to literally hundreds of concerned parents and teachers as well as clinicians in communication disorders who are baffled by the behavior of certain children who though having normal hearing and intelligence, yet behave as though they are hearing-impaired and are falling behind academically. These children experience much difficult understanding what they are told. In the classroom they are misunderstood as they seem to mis-hear information. They are usually socially isolated and labeled as unintelligent. Though many of them behave as if they are hearing impaired, yet hearing tests reveal that their hearing is normal. They persist in saying "What?" or "Huh?" "What did you say?". . . so often, and appear so lost at times in understanding simple instructions that teachers and parents are convinced they have a hearing problem. These children are said to have what is known as a "central auditory processing disorder (CAPD)." This is a problem of impaired listening due to poor processing capabilities. The book offers an explanation as to what causes these behaviors, and provides practical suggested solutions to this problem.

What is contained

•How Poor Listening Skills Affect your Child's Ability to Learn: What Causes the Problem? What Teachers and Parents Ought to Know about how children process information!

•The child's communication developmental model from birth to school-age. Warning signs for parents to look for at every stage of the hearing and listening developmental process.

•Medical conditions that may affect the ear and thus alter information transmission to the brain of the child.

•What is a central auditory processing disorder
–its impact on the child's ability to learn
–possible causes
–warning signs to look for
–four possible patterns of which parents and teachers must be aware

•Clinical cases of typical CAPD
–behaviors
–suggested management strategies for each behavior

•Strategies for teaching success within the classroom with CAPD children.

To sum up Aims & Objectives:

a) to explain about learning/listening challenges and Central Auditory Processing Disorders in terms that are simple and easily understood

b) assist in identifying specific listening/learning challenges in children between 4 and 15

c) offer appropriate information in layman's terms to assist in better understanding these challenges

d) to offer specially focused therapeutic games/activities that are easily integrated into a parent's or teacher's daily schedule to help in overcoming the challenges

e) to offer the first simple yet comprehensive, easily accessed and thorough look at CAPD

f) to help to empower both parents and teachers who are dealing with children with listening/learning challenges and with CAPD

g) to satisfy numerous requests from both parents and clinicians for a hands-on way to work with these children

Highlights:

•Beautifully illustrated throughout the book
•a good introduction to the problem of Listening Disorders
•comprehensive coverage of how the hearing and listening mechanism interact to produce learning and what can go wrong to alter these processes.
•useful for laymen, students as well as professionals dealing with this problem; simple and easy to read
•solutions-suggested strategies for parents and teachers to improve child's ability to manage information efficiently
•glossary of unfamiliar terms provided
•comprehensive bibliography
•list of suggested readings & additional sources
•self-evaluation quiz & answers

About the Author

•Ph.D Clinical Audiology: State University of New York
•M.A Clinical Audiology: Western Michigan University
•M.A Educational Counseling: Andrews University
•20 years of international experience in Clinical Audiology, with focus on Auditory Processing Disorders

Professional Membership

•American Speech-Language-Hearing Association(ASHA)
•College of Audiologists & Speech-Language Pathologists of Ontario(CASLPO)
•Authorizer with the Assistive Device Program. Ontario Ministry of Health