Processing Disorder = APD?!


Question: Processing Disorder = APD?
Is a processing disorder always APD (Auditory Processing Disorder)?

I was diagnosed with it when I was 10, and I'm 17 now.

I have no problem whatsoever reading books and understand what people say to me. I get bad grades in school, but this is because of my A.D.D.

Could this be a misdiagnosis?

Answers:

Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) is about not being able to process what you hear, or a listening disability.
There are different types of sensory information processing disorders as we all have five senses, sound, sight, taste, touch, and smell.
Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) is only concerns with some issues regarding the processing of sound based information.
Attention issues are another source of problems concerning the ability to concentrate or focus on a topic long enough to process any type of sensory information. this issues can come under the ADD or ADHD range of problems.

APD is either has a genetic origin or can be caused after having severe ear infections such as Otitis Media with Effusion (sometimes called Glue Ear or Sticky Ear)
There is no cure for APD is is about developing your own cognitive coping strategies using alternative cognitive skill strengths. these may be natural strengths or learning skills you have developed to help you cope.
APD does not cause not to be able to read, but makes the tasks of reading more difficult, especially when learning about new topics, and using new terminology.
APD does not mean that you are not able to understand what people may say, but more you may not process the meaning of what they have said immediately after they have said something.
APD can be about having problems processing sound basd information, such as speech in low levels of background noise.
APD can be about having a poor auditory memory
APD can be about having poor sequencing skills
APD can be about not being able to process the gaps between the sounds which say can combines to make up a word, or if some one speak very fast, the gaps between words.
APD is one of the many underlying cognitive causes of the dyslexic symptom

Living with APD is about having Good days and Bad days,
On good days our coping strategies are in place when we need them and we appear to few if any problems processing what others may be saying.
On a Dad day our coping strategies seem to desert us, and we have can have real problems trying to understand what is going on around us with regard to communication from others.

In a school or educational environment which has a set routine. those who have APD are able to develop their coping strategies which can include our own routines, around the structured framework of the routines in the daily life of an education establishment. However the outside world is completely different, and you have to create you own daily framework to around which you can develop your coping strategies.

So i think it may be more about discovering more about how to live with APD and finding out what causes you to have both good and bad days.

Auditory Processing Disorder in The UK
http://www.apduk.org/
Living with an Invisible Disability
http://dolfrog4life.homestead.com/AA_ind…
The OldAPDs an Adult APD forum
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Old…
APD Evaluation to Therapy: The Buffalo Model
https://www.audiologyonline.com/articles…



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