Auditory dyslexia is a disorder of the auditory perception and memory of speech sounds, most often associated with disorders of language function.
What are auditory processing disorders?
Children with auditory processing disorder may have difficulty following instructions and often ask for it to be repeated. Their ear hears the signal, but the brain does not attribute the correct meaning to it.
There are four basic skills related to auditory processing, and children who have these problems may be weak in at least one of them.
Auditory discrimination: this is the ability to notice and distinguish clear as well as subtle differences between sounds. This is crucial, for example, in the auditory discrimination of words that sound similar but have a different meaning, such as cash-chest-cheap, or shelf-roll. Children with auditory discrimination difficulties may miss information or misunderstand what you are saying because they may not perceive the differences between different speech sounds. This can cause difficulties in learning to read, write by ear. or speak – they may be misunderstood, for example. Children with difficulties in this area may also have problems with rhyming, as their brain may not detect that these are words that sound similar but not the same.
Auditory discrimination in noise: this is the ability to distinguish important sounds from background noise and follow verbal instructions by extracting the command from the ‘auditory clutter’. In the classroom, a child with poorly developed this skill may have difficulty focusing on what the teacher is saying and not on other sounds in the classroom. It could be said to be a problem with filtering important from irrelevant information.
Auditory memory: involves the ability to remember things we hear, both in the short and long term. Children with poor auditory memory have problems remembering rhymes, rhymes, song lyrics, difficulty remembering information when I it is additionally written down.
Auditory sequencing: this is the ability to understand and recall the sequence of sounds. A child with difficulties in this area may mix up the order of the digits in a number (84 and 48) and may twist the sequence of sounds in a word (manojez instead of mayonnaise or lomokotywa instead of locomotive). He may also have difficulty remembering the order in which to follow instructions given.
Sources:
- https://www.edupoint.pl/co-to-jest-zaburzenie-przetwarzania-sluchowego/
- http://poradniapyrzyce.pl/dysleksja-rozwojowa/
