• Body is often moving or slumped
• Eyes often wander
• Often looks around and loses attention when shifting body positions
• Often passive, does not seek clarification until asked a question or prompted
• Sometimes remembers unimportant information
• Often "mishears" words
• Exhibits difficulty with following oral directions and multi-step directions
• Exhibits poor sound/symbol associations for letters
• Exhibits poor decoding and spelling skills
• Has difficulty remembering sequences
• Makes grammatical errors, especially involving word endings (past tense, plurals, possessives, etc)
• Difficulty focusing on a primary signal in the presence of secondary signals (teacher vs. classroom noise)
• Is easily distracted by extraneous noise
• Experiences difficulty understanding speech in background noise
• Exhibits difficulty with reasoning and inferring meaning
• Exhibits poor short and long term memory
• Difficulty organizing self and thoughts
• Exhibits delays before responding
• Uses poor organization in written language
• Difficulty maintaining purposeful auditory focus over an extended period of time

Our Speech Language Pathologists  specialize in determining if your child is having auditory processing difficulties, including appropriate referrals to an audiologist.  We identify your child's strengths and teach your child by using a step by step approach across many different types of auditory tasks, until those tasks have been habituated.  We believe in empowering your child, family and teacher to identify and modify the environmet into more positve listening experiences.