09/11/2023
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Auditory Processing Therapy (APD Therapy)
Goals of APD Therapy:
Enhance auditory processing for speech and sound comprehension.
Improve speech understanding in noisy environments.
Strengthen auditory skills: attention, memory, sequencing, discrimination.
Categories of Therapy Interventions:
Decoding Interventions:
Focus on recognizing and processing speech sounds.
Techniques: phonemic training, phonemic synthesis.
Tolerance Fading Memory Interventions:
Improve speech understanding in noise, auditory memory, sequencing.
Methods: speech-in-noise desensitization, short-term auditory memory.
Integration Interventions:
Enhance processing from both ears.
Techniques: dichotic listening, dichotic offset training.
Organization Interventions:
Improve language skills, executive functions.
Methods: cognitive rehab techniques, memory training, language organization.
Auditory Association - improving ability to understand if-then statements, part to whole, categories, inferences, similarities, and differences and WH questions. which includes auditory analogies, auditory absurdities.
Benefits of APD Therapy:
Improved focus, sequencing, and speech understanding.
Better academic performance and social communication.
Reduced frustration in challenging listening situations.
Improvement Areas and Procedural Aspects:
Develop attention, endurance, and self-regulation skills.
Enhance self-monitoring and self-advocacy.
Improve emotional regulation and stamina.
Foster connections between tasks and meaningful comprehension.
Key Points:
APD therapy aims to enhance auditory processing skills for speech comprehension.
It involves decoding, tolerance fading memory, integration, and organization interventions.
Techniques include phonemic training, speech-in-noise desensitization, and dichotic listening.
APD therapy provides benefits such as improved focus, academic performance, and social interaction.
It addresses broader skills like attention, self-regulation, and self-advocacy.
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