Auditory Processing Disorder

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According to this site auditory integration training does have some beneficial effect. Even more interesting, according to the last few paragraphs, listening to enough of the right kinds of music could almost be construed as self-therapising Does anyone have personal experience of this?

I don't have experience with the treatment of it, but I do show CAPD signs.

If you don't mind my asking, do you notice any fluctuation in difficulties depending on how much social contact you have, or music listening habits, or anything else you can think of?

Hmmm... I don't listen to a lot of music consistently. I notice it's difficult to understand people and if they turn away from me, it's even harder to understand them. I ofen have to ask for clarification.

I really don't notice unless I have problems understanding what someone says. So I don't really take note of when it's not bothering me.

I tend to need the tv a bit louder so I can understand the words. Though my hearing is better than most peoples'. It's specifically relegated to word comprehension.

Not sure what else I can tell you. I really haven't studied myself in that respect too much.

My wife seemed very interested for me as I have it she teaches at a special ed school
the speach people there said it wasn't worth what they charge, I personally have a very hard time understanding people talking away from me and have scored on the high end on hearing tests,I hear noises find its just the speach i have problems with

I was sitting at church during "chat time" and realized that I can hear pretty much every single word of every conversation but I can't focus on just one so its just a jumble of words that don't go together. I have trouble understanding speech which I've always just attributed to hearing loss, but I don't really think that's it. I think my ability to filter out other sounds is getting worse as I age. When I'm talking with someone, mostly the speech is just fragments and I mentally try different words to see if its a possibility. If nothing makes sense then I have to ask for clarification.
For a while, my daughter was using something called "therapuetic listening". It was classical music that was modified to have all the low frequencies shut off at random intervals. It did seems to help her with motor skills (she was suddenly able to put on her socks while listening to it). One day she stuck the headphones on me. It just made my mind turn to jello. I couldn't even speak to tell her to take them off and I couldn't organize my thoughts enough to figure out how to get them off myself. Tres weird.