Auditory Processing Disorder??

[Rainbow]

TEXTHi Everyone,

I stumbled onto some information regarding this Auditory Processing Disorder and really wondered if it applied to my son. I also wondered if any of your children have also been diagnosed with this.
It has to do with normal hearing, but how they interpret what they have heard kind of gets scrambled. To me, this explains the many arguments our son starts with saying "but you said......" of which we did not, but he has somehow misunderstood. I also realize that this can be a manipulation technique.

But tonight, I wondered if we experienced kind of the opposite. Where I told him that I would cut up some fruit for him (on the way home from bb practice) while he showered. He instantly turned around when we got home and said that he said "to me in the car that he was going to eat his snack first" of which he never said. So we once again had this meltdown from him.

Any ideas?
Rainbow

[catseye]

Hi there!

My sd does not have this problem, and I dont really know much about it... My thoughts would be to have the child repeat things you say ALOT... Maybe his repeating will help with this problem? Just a thought... Good luck

cat

[songwriter]

I wonder if your son thinks he really told you something (If he thought about saying it enough, it was real enough to him to actually beleive that he said it. (Kind of like many adhd ers talking ouy loud when they are thinking and not realizing it- The mind and voice are closely intertwined)
As for the auditory processing difficulties- I am sure I have this- Much gets lost in the translation between my ears and brain. I hate this! and the more stressed I get, the worse my mind 'shuts down' I need more smiley choices)

[milesofsmiles]

With my son it is a case of his mind working on his random thoughts and hearing about 10% of what I say. He then interpets what he thought I said based on the 10%. In order to get the 100% (and even then I think it is only 80%) we have to remind him to stop his mind, look us in the eye, and listen, then repeat back to us. I find that the mind of an ADD to be incredible with the amount of processing that goes on. Hang in there,

Miles