Management of Auditory Processing Disorders

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TITLE="http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/R-Z/s"><U><B><U>http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/R-Z/spsu/academics/treharne_dilys.html</U></B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> T<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#336666" FACE="Arial" >his is a parent's summary of a presentation by Dilys Treharne</FONT></div> <div> More detailed information is available from Dilys Treharne via Sheffield University.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>Processing Problems</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Separating target sound from background noise</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Auditory Closure tasks</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Memory<B>:</B> Sequential and processing</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Recognising sounds</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Sequencing sounds</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Sequencing Verbal Concepts</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Rhythm/ pattern perception and prosody</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Processing at speed</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Integrating Speech with Movement</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><U><IMG SRC="05120020.png" border=0 width="800" height="770" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>Environment Compensation Remediation</U></B></div> <bR> <div> Bellis 1996 Tripod</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">FM sound reproduction systems</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Visual aides / clues handouts</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Demonstrations of task to be performed</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Limited auditory input</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">APD is not curable</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Use an Auditory recording device.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>Remediation Activities</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To reduce the degree of difficulty by training specific skills</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To stimulate the system to produce a functional change</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Reduce Redundancy of language - sample language</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><U>The Listening Program (TLP)</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>from</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.learning-solutions.co.uk/start.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.learning-solutions.co.uk/star"><U><B><U>Learning-Solutions</U></B></U></A></div> <div> or</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.rmlearning.com/auditoryprocessing.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.rmlearning.com/auditoryproces"><U><B><U>Rocky Mountain Learning Systems</U></B></U></A></div> <div> or</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.advancedbrain.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.advancedbrain.com/"><U><B><U>Advanced Brain Technologies</U></B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>What is The Listening Program?</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Sound Stimulation auditory training program</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Derived from the Principles of Tomatis </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Home programme</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">User friendly</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">8 week duration</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">8 CD set </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">classical music - filtered</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">sounds of nature</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">sounds played different speeds, and intensity etc.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>What Mechanisms does it employ?</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Sonic Neuro-technologies</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Filtering</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Gating</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Binaural beat effects</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Psycho-acoustic refinements</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Assessments</I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Scan C revised (Keith 2000) base line measure for screening </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">GFW Auditory Skills Battery</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Selective attention</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Memory (Woodstock 1976)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">TAPS-R</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Selected subtest (Gardner 1985)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Rhythm test TraCoL (Treharne 1999)</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>Selective attention</U></B></div> <bR> <div> Problems hearing Speech in a noisy background</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Test used <B>:</B> </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">GFW Test of Selective attention</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Subtests</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Active listening - report what had been heard.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Fan background (white noise)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Cafeteria babble background (pink noise)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Voice - person reading a story</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>Memory</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Test of Auditory Perceptual Skills - Revised Gardener</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Digit Span forwards</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Digit Span reverse</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Auditory Sequential memory</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Digit span (TAPS)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Working memory </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Reversed digit span (TAPS)</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>Rhythm</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Temporal Pattern perception  </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">TraCoL</div> <bR> <div> For more detailed results and statistical data of the research done; please contact Dilys Treharne via Sheffield University.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>Separating Target from background noise</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Test <B>:</B> </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">SCAN,</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">GFW selective attention.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Therapy <B>:</B> </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">TLP, </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Earobics</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Discrimination tasks with increasing background noise </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>Auditory Closure Tasks </U></B></div> <div>  </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Test <B>:</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </B>SCAN,</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> ITPA</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Therapy <B>: </B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Familiar lines completion</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Rhyme activities</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Missing syllable exercises</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Missing phoneme exercises</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Add background noise</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Localisation training</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">TLP</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Vocabulary building</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Working Memory</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Test <B>: </B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Digit</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Word and sentence span (TAPS)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">GFW memory</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Therapy <B>:</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Aunt Sally</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Kim's game</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Logic puzzles</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Matching games</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Earobics</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Recognising Sounds</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Test <B>: </B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Tallal type discrimination tasks</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">SCAN</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Standard auditory discrimination tasks- timed</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Non speech patterns (eg TraCoL)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Therapy <B>:</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Phoneme discrimination training</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Earobics</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Prosody Training</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>Sequencing</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Test <B>: </B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Tallal type tasks</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Verbal comprehension of a series of verbal concepts</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Non speech sequences eg TraCoL</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Therapy <B>:</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Earobics</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Aunt Sally went to market</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Kim's game with sequences</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Some FastForward activities.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>Temporal Pattern Processing</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Tests<B> :</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">TraCoL</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Therapy <B>:</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Training in the recognition and use of prosodic aspects of speech eg stress change eg <I>re</I>cord / Rec<I>or</I>d</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Sentence stress training</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Non speech patterb recognition</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Copying and word prosody recognition</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>Processing at Speed and Inter-hemispheric Processing </U></B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Test <B>: </B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">SCAN</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Verbal comprehension tasks timed eg TROG</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Therapy <B>: </B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">TLP</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Cross modal exercies</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Brain Gym</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Singing to music</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Integrating Speech with Movement</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Test<B> :</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Walk talk tasks</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Therapy <B>:</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Involves inter<B>-</B>hemispheric activity</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f066663300.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Brain Gym</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Following the use of The Listening Program during trials</div> <div> (For more detailed results and statistical data of the research done; please contact Dilys Treharne via Sheffield University.)</div> <bR> <div> An improvement in auditory figure ground task was evident</div> <div> An improvement in sequential memory tasks was evident</div> <div> Qualitative changes in attention were noticed</div> <div> Change was more marked in those more severely effected.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Click on the link  <a href="HTMLobj-88/Management_of_Auditory_Processing_Disorders.pdf"><u>Management_of_Auditory_Processing_Disorders</u> </a>  to download this page as an Acrobat pdf. file</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>© D.Treharne 2003-</B></div> <div> <B>© APDUK 2003-</B></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>