What is effective and efficient Auditory Processing?
“Strong and effective auditory functions facilitate skills to Hear, Express, Learn, and Process. Robust and efficient auditory skills are necessary to Listen, Organize, Think, Understand, and Speak with good Stamina and endurance” – Dr. Kaul
At Hear Express Learn Process, our goal is to facilitate active participation by developing and fostering robust auditory skills This process includes strong executive skills for self-monitoring, self-correction, and self-regulation.
Developing robust auditory skills is a basic necessity to achieve the goal of active participation.
Auditory skills include:
- Sensitivity-to be aware of the incoming auditory signals
- Auditory filtering-to choose appropriate incoming signals and to ignore the unnecessary information
- Attention- to focus on the information over time
- Dichotic listening- ability to listen from both ears at the same time
- Selective listening- ability to listen to one ear and ignore the other other ear appropriately
- Analysis- of the information by decoding and discrimination
- Synthesis- blending information meaningfully
- Comprehension-Attach meaning (auditory association)
- Organization and Integration- of all the incoming information
- Comparison- of incoming information with previously stored knowledge
- Expression-Provide an appropriate output/ response
- Appropriate feedback mechanisms for self-monitoring and self-regulation skills, develop with practice, experience, and maturity.
- Finally Auditory Processing involves improved auditory maturity, and increased endurance to sustained auditory input
- Awareness Identification Discrimination Comprehension