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Classroom Strategies
Auditory Processing
Difficulty hearing or processing/understanding what is heard.
Possible Disabilities
- Learning Disability
- Hearing Impairments
- Attention Deficit Disorder
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Observable Behavior
Attending
Discrimination
- distractibility- loses concentration due to noise in environment (i.e., ventilator, traffic, etc.)
- sustained listening is difficult, quick to fatigue
- studying in any high noise level room or library reading room impossible
Discrimination
- difficulty distinguishing non-verbal sounds (i.e., sonar, etc.)
- poor pitch discrimination and tonal memory in music
- difficulty detecting difference in words that sound alike
- misperceives message so may have misinformation in notes
- trouble with foreign accent of professor
- difficulty in rhyming, stress and intonation patterns in English poetry, etc.
- trouble with foreign language
What to do
- don't schedule back to back classes
- choose more MWF classes (50 minutes)
- find an empty classroom for night study
- use textbooks on tape
- practice listening
- sit right in front of instructor
- check notes with other students
- sit in on classes a semester ahead to be sure professor is easily understood
- read and re-read
Observable Behavior
Sequencing
- may get all parts of an instruction but in wrong order
- trouble recalling phone number, dosage of medication, formula, etc.
- very poor speller
- trouble recalling order of events (i.e., novel, history)
- may reverse order of syllables in pronouncing long words
What to do
- check with other students
- write information and check
- study spelling of new terms
- develop sequence charts
For additional information please contact the Counselor/Coordinator of Student Accommodations
at 217/234-5259 or email Jordan Hicks at jhicks50392@lakeland.cc.il.us
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