Dear
What are the consequences for your child who has problems communicating in the playground?
Let's imagine a scenario where your child with Auditory
Processing difficulties is taking part in a conversation in the school playground. There is some background noise with other children playing, running around, shouting, laughing and your child is having a chat with three of his friends.
Child number one starts talking about what they did at the weekend.
Child
number two then starts talking about what they did.
Child number three also contributes.
Unfortunately, because your boy's processing speed is slower than it should be, he struggles to take in everything child number one said. And he was still processing it when child number two started speaking. So he didn't get all of what they said either nor did he get all of what child number 3 is saying.
So what are the possible
consequences of this?
1. He may misinterpret the point of the conversation.
2. He may want to contribute but when he does his contribution is also off point
3. His contribution may have been relevant two or three sentences ago but not
now.
4. He may not have got the nuances of what was talked about.
5. He may decide not to contribute at all and retreat into himself.
6. He may prefer to play with one child only.
7. He may prefer to play with younger children who are easier to understand
because their language is less mature.
8. He may lose the listener.
9. He may not always get the jokes or
the sarcasm.
10. Friends may become unkind or even make fun of him.
So as you can see the consequences of poor auditory processing go beyond the classroom.
The good news is that with the right
intervention your child can improve their listening and auditory processing accuracy and speed.
Regards
John Kerins
PS or just hit reply to send us an email.