SPAA 344 TERM 3 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS
what is auditory processing
difficulty processing and interpreting auditory stimuli
-probs with coding, ordering, processing, timing (anything we do to process sound)
where does APD occur
brain-left temporal lobe, somewhere beyond the auditory nerve in the brainstem or cerebral
cortex
in the absence of peripheral hearing loss
profile
-at least 7 years old
-12-20% of school age children have APD
-males more than females
-adult incidence is difficult to estimate
is APD acquired or maturational
both
major cause of APD (and other causes)
*neuromaturational delay
-lead poisoning
-brain tumor
-brain injury from trauma to head
-chronic otitis media
-exposure to drugs or alcohol prematurely
8 skills areas
auditory attention
auditory memory
, auditory discrimination
auditory figure ground
auditory synthesis
binaural separation
binaural integration
temporal processing
auditory attention
ability to sustain attention and focus to an auditory stimulus over time
-we must be able to pay attention to auditory stimuli in order to be able to understand it and
interpret it
-auditory attention is the basis of all auditory skills (great significance on academic and social
performance
auditory memory
ability to recall what is said (words, number, sentences, instructions
---immediate or deferred
-related to ability to follow directions
auditory discrimination
ability to identify phoneme differences between sounds or words
related to following directions, spelling , reading, writing, decoding
auditory figure ground
ability to discriminate words in the presence of background noise (hear teacher in classroom)
related to auditory attention and memory and following directions
auditory synthesis
DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS
what is auditory processing
difficulty processing and interpreting auditory stimuli
-probs with coding, ordering, processing, timing (anything we do to process sound)
where does APD occur
brain-left temporal lobe, somewhere beyond the auditory nerve in the brainstem or cerebral
cortex
in the absence of peripheral hearing loss
profile
-at least 7 years old
-12-20% of school age children have APD
-males more than females
-adult incidence is difficult to estimate
is APD acquired or maturational
both
major cause of APD (and other causes)
*neuromaturational delay
-lead poisoning
-brain tumor
-brain injury from trauma to head
-chronic otitis media
-exposure to drugs or alcohol prematurely
8 skills areas
auditory attention
auditory memory
, auditory discrimination
auditory figure ground
auditory synthesis
binaural separation
binaural integration
temporal processing
auditory attention
ability to sustain attention and focus to an auditory stimulus over time
-we must be able to pay attention to auditory stimuli in order to be able to understand it and
interpret it
-auditory attention is the basis of all auditory skills (great significance on academic and social
performance
auditory memory
ability to recall what is said (words, number, sentences, instructions
---immediate or deferred
-related to ability to follow directions
auditory discrimination
ability to identify phoneme differences between sounds or words
related to following directions, spelling , reading, writing, decoding
auditory figure ground
ability to discriminate words in the presence of background noise (hear teacher in classroom)
related to auditory attention and memory and following directions
auditory synthesis
