Auditory Processing disorder

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It could be the browser. Anyway, you can try cutting and pasting the slideshow below (without audio). Obviously, I'll need to redo the page on my website at some point.

https://app.onlinephotofiler.com/Galler ... o&ci=42241

Well, I've noticed that my website seems to work better using Google Chrome than it does with an older browser that I also have on the computer. You also have to click on an actual picture of a document within the slideshow at the bottom, not the controls, when you start.

(I know that I need to redo this page.)

I remember 10 years ago a man doing research said I may have mild CAPD (Central Auditory Processing Delay/Disorder), as at the time it couldn't be diagnosed because it's to do with how the brain processes the sounds as well as having heightened hearing.

The "tuning out" is probably him daydreaming. I don't find it particularly difficult to hear in a classroom unless other people are speaking. It is *very* hard for me to concentrate in a classroom, and I don't even realise it when I'm tuned out and daydreaming. It is very tiring for me to try and concentrate. When my schools stopped the one-to-one sessions with me, my grades went right down. And I was accused of not listening and all that rubbish, despite me being interested in the subjects.

Hope that helps.

Thanks everyone for the input. As someone above said, DS does much better with written or visual instructions tahn verbal ones. I have recently discovered that if I want to talk to him about something he is a bit uncomfortable with its best if I wait until bedtime and lie in his bed with him and whisper softly with him. We have had some good conversations this way and I ahve learned a lot more about some things that are troubling him.

The things that have led me to think about APD are that he often confuses the sounds at the end of words, he will tell me that he hasn't heard instructions that have been given clearly and concisely to him when there is other background noise going on. He is refusing to take part in a lot of things at school even things that I think would be challenging and interesting but I am beginning to suspect that his refusal is because he doesn't understand the instructions and his perfectionist characteristics make it so he would rather not try at all if he doesn't think he can do it right. I have started writing questions down that he won't respond to verbally and he will answer me, sometimes verbally sometimes written. I was wondering if it would be beneficial to teach him sign language. Anyone know of any good videos for teaching sign language to a kindergarten age child?

I think that you are definitely on the right track with writing stuff down. In the IEP of my older son with high functioning classic autism, it says that he is supposed to get visual supports, a visual schedule, and have assignments written down. The teacher has also agreed to make sure that his homework is in a certain pocket of a particular folder and that she's added a sticky note with instructions since he forgets what to do by the time he gets home. I have called the school a couple of times and spoken to the teacher before she's left for the day when the instructions were missing.

Regardless of whether your child has auditory processing issues, he will probably benefit from visual supports. Many kids on the spectrum also have attention issues. The IQ tester from my son's school district also told me that his information retrieval issues were commonly seen in kids with autism. (She didn't specify classic autism, HFA, or Asperger's). Then you throw in speech issues...

Anyway, a lot of people find the TEACCH instructional methods helpful (basically structured, organized teaching with a heavy reliance on visual aids and schedules). You can check out the links below (2 at the top of the page and 2 at the bottom) pertaining to the TEACCH method.

http://www.freevideosforautistickids.co ... avior.html