I love how clearly you both enunciate. I wish more people would do that. I've been told that my hearing is normal, but I tell people all the time that if they don't have my attention or I can't see them, I cannot understand what they're saying. All I hear is gibberish. Sometimes I can take a second and replay the noise and kind of take a guess at what was said. It can also be very amusing when I get it wrong. (You'd be amazed at how many things sound like "I love you") It's just rough because I grew up with a semi deaf dad, so I'm used to talking to someone who actually can't hear me well at all. But my husband isn't, and gets so frustrated when I have to ask him to repeat himself. The worst thing people do is just saying "nevermind"
@@carnishacampbell1352 yeah getting told nevermind kinda feels like the person regrets trying to tell you something. Like, it was important enough for you to say once, so it was clearly important enough to get me to understand. I know the frustration of being the person that's never heard, but just try to consider it from the perspective of someone who has to risk irritating people every single time they don't hear something. It's not something we can control, and it takes a lot of cooperation from people around us
fr though 😔 I heard that often too and it was so frustrating and sad… (I’m quite a sensitive person so I tries super hard not to cry whenever that was told to me)
I was diagnosed with APD as a young child and struggled with it a lot through school. It was really hard for me to read and write and still today my spelling is really bad. I'm horrible at following directions and I forget things all the time, even if someone just told me. It's really hard for me to learn people's names and other bits of info like dates. I space out a lot and have a short attention span even when I'm trying really hard to listen or even when I'm very interested in what I'm hearing. It helps a lot though seeing videos like this that validate my struggles. I feel like APD is a very unknown condition that's not talked about often. I didn't receive a lot of help through school , but I feel like if more people know about APD then kids in the future will have an easier time and be more accommodated for.
Ive never been diagnosed, but I’ve always struggled with hearing people, especially when there’s background noise. It’s like I can hear that someone is saying something but it just sounds like noise. It gets a little better if I focus but I still miss a ton of words when there’s other noise of any sort going on.
Straight up sometimes it's like the adults in Peanuts. There's sound and I'm sure they're saying words but it's like, oh hey someone's having a conversation in the same room so now it's W O R D S O U P
When there’s more then one person in a room and they are talking I have a hard time following when they speak at the same time. I am unable to make eye contact with them and I have said,” wait wait stop I can’t follow,” Btw to add I have a form of asd
This makes lots of sense. I used to work in a place where hearing protection was required and we were tested for hearing loss every year. I always passed with 95% in both ears. But during conversations with people, sometimes their words would turn into mush halfway through a sentence and I'd have to ask them to repeat themselves. I'd try to repeat the noise that came out of their mouth as close as I could. Normally not much of a problem except if you ever get pulled over by the police and they think you're mocking them.
You made me laugh. I imagined the police thinking he is being "mocked"😂I was never diagnosed. But maybe 6 years ago, my sister made me aware that I respond inadequately to people questions. Well that was because I didn't get what they said, and I responded to what I thought they said. I got panicked that I might be deaf. Because I had to rely heavily on reading their lips. So we found a center for hearing loss that were performing hearing tests. My hearing results were excellent, although I noticed that 3 words the lady said, were something else that I heard. I am still not diagnosed but at least I know that I am not deaf. I was made aware about that disorder, by an physical therapist who had a child with this disorder. That made me wonder if I have it as well. Whatever it is, it didn't stop me from learning almost 4 languages. @Lance Westveer
I’m 20 years old and just now learning about ADP. I had a ton of ear infections as a kid so that could be why. I also deal with social anxiety and ADHD, I have a hard time understanding what anybody talks about and my anxiety Keeps me from asking people to repeat themselves. Thank you for this video!
My son was young when he dealt with ear infections and his ENT doctor said this would happen as he got older because of ear infections. Now I'm in a process to finding out if he have this and to get him help asap.
I'm doing pretty well in college. When it comes to studying, I know what works best for me & what doesn't work for me. My biggest struggle is that I have a hard time following detailed instructions/directions. I always make sure to read the material ahead of time, bring a recorder (if allowed, of course) & a notepad. It works for me. If I'm put on the spot without any preparation, I freeze.
I just finished college with honors, although I barely graduated high school. I was diagnosed with APD when I was in elementary. I struggled with reading and writing and attended speech class. Being in special education did not help because the room was filled with kids with learning disabilities and behavioral problems (does not mix). I remember my accounting teacher in college stopped in the middle of his lecture and asked me if my pencil was on fire because of how much notes I took in class. Like you said preparation is the most important thing for us. I hope you are still doing well.
@@rickypelletier363 First of all, congratulations! I'm always proud to know when a fellow APD struggler is succeeding. It seems that we have to work harder than most, so I hope you celebrated! I was also placed into speech therapy and special education. I agree with you that it wasn't very helpful. I never felt supported or encouraged. I just think they didn't know much about APD. I had to figure out how to cope with it on my own. :/ I finally hit my stride once I reached college. I'm doing well so far! Thank you for asking! I got accepted into a healthcare program that will begin in August. I'm excited, but nervous. As long as I stay prepared and ahead of the game, I should do just fine!
Thanks for this. I'm an adult who was always told I just have selective deafness. Or I just choose what I want to listen to. I've had heaps of hearing tests and my hearing is fine, but especially now in this pandemic, with face masks being worn it's heightened how much of a problem it is for me. This helped me explain to my husband and to my friends what I hear, because it's quite similar. Even down to say, watching a TH-cam video. If my device is the only noise source it's fine. But if my husband sits near me doing the same thing, he scrambles the noise on my device. So thanks for this. You've made it a bit easier for me to get people to understand.
Is anyone else here because of not being able to read lips with masks? I went to an audiologist assuming I had some hearing loss over the years and the doctor said my ears were fine. She told me a lot of adults find this out later then she literally just told me to google it- no referral. It makes so much sense, I was diagnosed with adhd but have been off meds for years and always questioned the diagnosis. I also had horrendous ear infections as a kid. One thing I never understood- I'll type a rhyming word instead of the word I'm meaning but again, this all makes a lot of sense
Dr. Gooch, you were my auditory therapist back in 1993 after I was in a bike accident. Fun to see you online now! This was a really interesting video! It's a real struggle when people say I need to 'pay attention'. Paying attention isn't the issue. It's that I cannot listen, then give my brain adequate time to understand, and then take meaningful notes... especially while someone is still talking in the background. In college I survived by reading my textbooks (I understand perfectly when I read) and then listening to the lecture. I've developed my own coping mechanisms - ask frequent (annoying) questions so I make sure I am keeping up with the discussion. Ask A or B type questions to make sure I understand what was said - 'Did you mean A or B?' It is always a struggle to determine the meaning behind what a person says. I'm the best texting/emailing buddy a person could ever have. 😆 At work I am frequently scheduling meetings to discuss a previous meeting. It seems to help my entire team, but they don't know why I do it. Also, my questioning tends to make people feel deeply heard. 'Wow, no one has ever cared So Much about what I have to say' is something I hear often. 🤣 It is easy to enthral people who have never felt 'heard' or 'seen' in life. I just annoy everyone else, especially those in a crisis who want to be understood without all the damn questions. Anywho. Keep doing the good work!
my big clue into this disorder was the forgetfulness of sequences, directions, letters, numbers, etc. i would be at work and couldn’t remember a simple 2-3 step instruction without having someone re-explain or me repeating the instructions back minutes later. i also turn down music, the tv, any background noise for those talking to me and try to give them my best possible attention. i’m 30 and have just stumbled upon this disorder within the last 3-4 years, but it makes total sense for me! i’ve actually talked to my mom about my childhood behavior and she said that i needed more repeating before something would sink in for me. thank you for explaining this a little more in-depth and i hope more come to understand this!
My whole life I've felt like I was always missing things in conversations, I always had to ask people "what?" at least three times and have gotten really good at making up responses that work in any situation in case I can't figure out what the person has said. I could never understand the lyrics in songs, and often had trouble understanding what the characters in movies, shows and plays were saying. I didn't have any trouble learning to read as a kid though, but a few of my old teachers from elementary have told my parents that they think I might have ADHD or to "watch out" for ADHD symptoms. I just found out and started researching about APD and I think there's a possibility I might have it. I hope that if I do, there's a treatment out there that will help.
I hope you do find help. There are a couple more videos on the Utah Neuro Rehabilitation TH-cam channel that might help: Treating Auditory Processing Disorder and Auditory Processing Disorder Treatments.
It’s weird because I do the *what what what* thing but I learn lyrics fo fast. I’ve been diagnosed since a kid and it’s annoying but it isn’t the worst thing you could have.
I never liked live action shows or movies when I was little because characters would always mumble so low in those dramatic scenes I couldn’t understand what they were saying (similar with animated but wasn’t as bad) The joys of subtitles are beautiful
@@Kitty294_ 😂I thought it was just me. Everyone else can make out what the actors in the movies are saying, but it always sounds like they’re whispering to me. My husband gets annoyed when I keep asking questions, but it’s literally because half the time I can only make out bits and pieces of what’s being said. Which is odd because as far as I know, my ability to hear is normal. I also have trouble keeping up in conversations. People sometimes think I’m being rude and just not listening to them. When it’s just that my brain struggles with trying to process, analyze and filter out all these words being said to me all at once. I didn’t know there’s was actually a name for this condition. So now I need to figure out how to fix it.
At some point in my life I thought that I am deaf, because I had to read people's lips in order to help myself to understand them. Often all the words were one lump, that was hard to divide and understand. I had to ask the person to repeat the sentence, and every repetition sounded exactly the same, and impossible for me to grasp separate words. I often ignored the sentences that I couldn't decipher. But sometimes you really need that piece of information in order to put all the information together. I can't remember to have that problem as a child. It was making my life harder as an adult. I had my hearing checked and it is perfect. I am not sure if that qualifies as an auditory processing disorder? Thank you for your video.
I’m 24 and I have only just recently been properly diagnosed with this. I also have some visual processing difficulties, but my auditory processing difficulties are much more prominent. As a child my mum thought I needed grommets in my ears, but every time the specialist would say there was nothing wrong with my hearing. It’s only now that I’m having a psychiatrist try to improve that and my poor memory for me.
I'm 44 and only got diagnosed with APD in my late 30s. I was told by several specialists when I was a kid that I "just wasn't paying attention enough" and for most of my life I've had to have to use context, lip reading & educated guesses to have a conversation. Maybe it wasn't a well known diagnosis in the 80s/90s?. I'm so glad I mentioned it to my GP a few years ago & saw a consultant who told me my hearing is actually better than it should be given my age but that my brain simply wasn't processing the sounds. Honestly it validated my experience & made me understand that it wasn't my fault. I saw a wonderful speech & auditory therapist who helped me with coping strategies which have made my life a little easier. Thanks for the video ❤
I was Diagnosed with APD in primary school. I was also diagnosed with ADD, OCD and Dyslexia. I never knew there was a treatment, but my mom did a lot to make sure that I would have extra time in exams and a scribe who would read and write for me, and break up the sentence so that I would understand. My mom also made sure that these disorders were never seen as disorders because it comes off as negative, so she helped me and my sister to understand that we think differently, but we are still normal. And so I learned to embrace it to the point where I had to ask my mom the other day which one of us Siblings had ADD again🤣 Thanks mom❤
Been diagnosed with APD since I was very young (1st grade) and was unfortunately was dealing with other issues at the time which didn't help. I find being stressed out can make APD much worse. I'm now 32 years old and doing better with the challenges Auditory Processes Disorder has, but at times it can really mess with me due to negative influences I (used) to have. Parents found out and put a quick end to it. Had my 3rd grade teacher berate & tease me. I had this headphones/microphone thing which would change audio from ear to ear to help keep me focused. He'd use it as a tool for punishment if I got anything wrong or asked for him to repeat. Almost ended in a lawsuit. Grandparents were also a horrible example, saying I was lying and there was no way I was that **tarded or stupid. Really messed with me since I was trying my best. I don't want pity or anything, but if anybody here reads this who is going through a similar situation. Please k ow you're perfectly fine and you're no less smart or wonderful than anybody else. People who purposefully hurt you are wrong, and while it might take a extra step for you to understand something at least you can learn unlike certain close-minded people. Just keep doing your best and go at your own comfortable pace. Try to find things you absolutely love to use as helpful tools to try and improve. That way if you're caught in a fog or having difficulty understanding or thinking it's easier to try again, or keep at it without getting too frustrated or disheartened.
I am so sorry that you needed to go through all this. It is extremely unfair. Thank you for sharing this. It is powerful information. I am going to make a video with your comments. This is really important for people to hear. Thank you!!
I am currently 18 and undiagnosed. Growing up, I struggled so much in school when I had been given verbal directions. I was always a great, straight A student but none of my teachers could understand why I just didn't hear them when they pulled me aside for a 1-on-1 Benchmark discussion about a certain reading. I remember one day in second grade, my teacher got so upset that I kept asking her to repeat her question that she just sent me to the nurse's office. The nurse set me up on the beeping machine and I rose my hand at every beep and got sent back to class like nothing happened. Then I visited ENT specialists who tried to clean earwax and I often got set up with the beeping machine but I almost always heard every single beep. It just didn't make sense. They tried to suggest that I had fluid behind my ears but my mom wasn't sure about that so we went home and nothing has really happened since then. Throughout the rest of the years, I somewhat got by but these issues came up again. I remember in 11th grade when my history teacher started using some videos for certain topics and we had to answer questions in order without pausing the video. There weren't any subtitles or transcript I could read along with and thus, I couldn't retain the information long enough to properly do those assignments. I nearly teared up once from the stress of trying to process the information. And my family tries to speak to me and they'll give up and say "nevermind" or they'll bring it up later and ask: "don't you remember me asking you this question?" And I always tell them I just couldn't hear or I had no recollection of them even speaking to me. Like I said, I'm still undiagnosed so I don't even know if I have this condition. But these videos are helping me so much by finally making me feel like I have a reason for my challenges so thank you.
Thank you for sharing this. It certainly sounds like you may have APD. There are a couple more videos on the Utah Neuro Rehabilitation channel that might help: Treating auditory processing disorder and auditory processing disorders treatments. Can you get tested?
i was diagnosed with central auditory processing when i was about 8 i think. im still struggling with it and i super appreciative this video! super accurate
Funny my whole life I’d tell people in a group setting the same phrase...”everyone sounds like the school teacher in Charlie Brown...bwha bwaa waa waaab!” Now this has me wondering..ty
I was diagnosed at 19. Before that I was mis diagnosed as Attention deficit disorder and put on ritalin. Alot of years not diagnosed has held me back alot with work life and life in general
Same here. Got diagnosed with OCD and Auditory Processing disorder at age 24. I've always knew there was something wrong with me as a kid. As I grew up, school and adulthood had been hard. For a long while I was a complete shut in. Opening up to my family about my anxiety and problems has always been shrugged off. I've not really worked alot since I got out of high-school because of my OCD and Auditory problems. So my family thought I was being lazy and berate me. Example like "Do something with your fucking life" or "Grow up". I've been a complete failure to start my life due my illness that I started believing maybe I was lazy as well. I feel so guilty and shame that I disappointed my family since I have to rely on their financial support. Now that I'm medicated for my OCD I'm able to work without anxiety. But I just feel so dead inside... I'm seeing a therapist in a week.
@@threeequalsd4865 Really hope the therapy helps! Just try to remember to focus more on *yourself* rather than what other people or your family think about you. Sincerely hope you feel better soon.
I am (a very young :) ) 61. I recently read through my K through 4 report cards and the teachers each described exactly the symptoms discussed here, and also the expected problems I had early on acquiring reading and spelling, requiring a quiet class room in order to do well, etc. This was quite a revelation to me because it explains so much. One question I have is are you only born with this, or can it be acquired later in childhood from sickness, injury, or lack of adequate verbal interaction as an infant?
Luckily I was diagnosed quite early on with APD. My mom was always eager to explain to each teacher the needs of people with APD (e.g. confirming instructions or writing them down, etc..). I adapted quite well into school life. A thing I still really struggle with are social things: people being annoyed when i ask them to repeat things (being seen as unattentive or simply not listening) and avoiding being with many people or at a social gathering place and this being seen as antisocial or introverted. In fact I really like talking and being with people, but it is very hard to try and follow a simple conversation, when you cant understand 80% of it; but also the general noise sensitivity and getting earaches after a while in loud surrounding. The most frustrating thing is when trying to explain the condition and people simply saying that you "just need to concentrate more" :( Btw. Great video for explaining APD Especially since you speak very clearly and I am able to turn on the subtitles to easier follow the conversation :)
Thank you for sharing this....this woman is very detailed....I like how she breaks things down....please do more videos like this....maybe she can also share techniques that parents can do at home with their kids to learn ....pleeaazzee...thanks
Thank you for this -very- informative production. I suspect I have had APD most of my near-adult and adult life, and now I know who to consult to get this properly diagnosed, and how to get it treated or accommodated.
I was diagnosed with APD about 7 years ago so I was soon assigned an FM system to help me hear the teacher’s voice better and filter out all the other sounds (2 parts: teacher piece was a mic and my piece was receiving the sound) I know it was to help make my learning easier but it was still stressful.. It was also quite noticeable (both parts, it’s gone through some changes and now it’s a bit more discreet and modern mostly for my ear pieces.. but people still think I’m deaf.. because my ear pieces look like hearing aids) Kids ask me about it so I constantly explain to them what it was (most of the time I didn’t know how to explain or what it was either) constantly reminding the teachers to mute and unmute their mic (when they don’t mute themselves I often hear many things: private teacher talks, them helping other students with questions and my *favourite*, blowing their noses 😀 which makes things a bit embarrassing, mostly for them) I know the teacher has a bunch of other kids to look after but at least still try and remember… they always seem to put most of the responsibility on me for anything relating to the FM.. substitutes are mostly harder but there have been about 2 occasions when I was finally given a stress break) *Instructions are a b***.* (I don’t have much confidence so I always ask the teacher for almost everything because I’m scared I missed some information..) Movies are hard to listen to because sometimes information was hard to hear and process. Now that we have apps for watching things, I like turning on subtitles for movies and shows because it’s easier for me to understand (not always but still better) I never liked live-action movies for this reason because sometimes actors would mumble so low I could never understand what was being said. Please, try to have some patience and make things clearer for us.. For example, when we ask you to repeat again what you’ve said a few times, don’t reply with “never mind”, because it makes us think you regret saying it to us in the first place. In more my case when watching movies I tend to ask a lot of questions throughout the movie (I know it can be frustrating because you’re trying to concentrate on what’s happening I will ask questions so I can understand too…) *Overall, just remember to be a bit more mindful to everyone*
I’ve never been diagnosed with APD and I know for sure that I have really good and sensitive hearing, but I remember having difficulties understanding what my parents/friends/teachers said since 8-9 years old. I would often repeat “huh ?”, to which my parents would laugh and say “Are you impersonating a grandma ?”. It didn’t make me angry nor sad, because I thought maybe a lot of kids are like that. Now that I am in my late teens, I become more self-aware, and started noticing that I really can’t tell what people are saying in (even mildly) noisy environments. My brain often tries to auto-complete the words I didn’t get, but they often don’t match the person’s actual words. I also tend to forget what has been said if I don’t create a clear mental image of it, or if I don’t write it down. I’ve been recently diagnosed aspie, I wonder if it has anything to do with that, and if what I’m describing could actually be APD ?
It certainly could be APD. On the Utah Neuro Rehabilitation channel, we have posted two more videos on treating APD. There may be some suggestions to help you.
Yeah I have this for sure. Because one time I was having a convo with my cousin, and I told him that I couldn't hear what he was saying. Even tho he was not far away from me, and that pissed him off. Even tho I was trying to hear what he was saying. I'm not good at debating or fast emotional discussions, or following complex directions without needing some reassurance. Like it could be something as simple as picking up something in my aunts room, and if I cant identify the item right away? Then I'll just start to wonder, and have to ask her what it was again. I like having some kind of extra support so if I get stuck I can ask the other person whats going on, and get my mind unstuck right away. Like right now due to covid we're having college online. But I am not doing good since its not in person. I am gonna end up failing my classes. Because the work is coming in way too fast, and the online support is not gonna be enough for me. My mind cant keep up with all this work, and this APD didn't make it any easier. I wasted hours trying to read something for an assignment I wasn't even support to read, and then for another assignment I misinterpreted the teacher saying, "You must message all the students in the class with 2-3 sentences." So I literally tried to message ALL the students, and I wasn't even supposed to do that! I barely made it though the FIRST week of assignments just a few days ago. Then got crushed by all the rest... This is why I like having 1 other person around me. So if I waste a lot of time trying to do something, and I'm doing it wrong the whole time? With that little extra help/perspective I can prevent all that from the beginning. Save myself a lot of time, frustration and criticism. Before I get too deep into doing something incorrectly. So I don't think I would be able to study well without some type of guidance, or I'll just study wrong, and waste a lot of time doing that before I realize I'm doing it wrong. I do better watching videos, looking at visuals, and long 1 on 1 interactions. If there is too much reading, or talking too fast I can misinterpret a lot of stuff. Then what makes it worse, when I try to get help? So many people will be like, "Why cant you just figure it out? Why cant you just do it all on your own?" Well I would love too dummies! But I would waste a lot of time doing that. Cuz I know I'm gonna misinterpret something due to the APD, and then move completely in the wrong direction. Now when I go try to just "figure it all out only to mess up?" Then those same people will be like, 'Why did you do that? What was you thinking? Why did you say that?" Gets so annoying. There is a lot of people that don't got no time to help you do something right. But ALWAYS got the time to point out when you do something wrong... If I was rich I would pay a person to come to my house every day to teach me how to do whatever it is I'm lacking in, or wanna learn how to do.
I had testing today and although the written report will be ready next week, at 50 years old the doctor just told me I have APD. I am glad to know but feeling very sad as this has effected my entire life negatively, to the point of being abused, called names, and even physically hit because I "wasn't listening". But I didn't understand or "compute" the directions is all 🤷♀️ I graduated college 2 Saturdays ago with high honors. If I have extra time I obviously can figure out academics, etc..
I am sorry you have had these difficulties. It is wonderful you graduated college. We have two more videos on APD on this channel: Treating apd and apd treatments. Best of luck to you.
Dyslexia for the ears I tell people. I've had a hearing loss all my life and been in hearing aids for 2 decades. Have never had an audiologist who was knowledgeable about apd or knew but not how to treat. Have a son who had undiagnosed visual convergence insufficiency who was diagnosed in Houston, since he still could not read in 5th grade. Once diagnosed he had 9 months of intense visual therapy and his balance ( he used to flip flop, part of the testing showed he had to control over things like turning his feet to pigeon or duck stance)and eyes strengthend and he not only could read, he greatly in school and was out of special Ed by HS. It was then I felt that part of hearing loss was a Neuro thing and had hope maybe some Neuro therapy could help improve my brain. Wearing hearing aids in a crowd with npd is painful and I usually miss 90 % I'd there are multiple conversations going , like restaurants, very frustrating. This gives me hope, surely there is therapist in Houston so thank you for this video !
I've been doing a lot of reading into CAPD lately. I was diagnosed when I was a little kid. The first time my mom mentioned I had it was when I was 10 but she rarely brought it up so I have to learn everything on my own. I read in a couple articles that even though its neurological and doesn't effect the inner ears people with CAPD/APD are considered hard of hearing because it effects how they hear language, is that true? I struggle a lot with communication. There have been times people try to talk to me and because their is so much interference or I'm having a hard day that it doesn't even sound like we are speaking the same language.
Do you ever get that 1 question that you KNOW the answer too? But just cant remember what the answer is? So you have a long pause with the person trying to remember the answer, and since the person has been waiting so long you just blurt something out, and cross your fingers that your brain remembers the right thing at the last moment?
i have apd but i only struggle with taking in information through words but visually i am ok i guess. My results arent bad i just have to have things explained to me sometimes 3 or 4 times. My teachers are good at helping me though.
I have always had problems with hearing, but I've never had an issue with my ears. So I've only come to the conclusion that I have Auditory Processing Disorder. I also have Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia.
34sillyband thanks. I will look into getting that book. I think I have had it for ever possibly because I remember always feeling like I had to listen harder and look at lips to understand some sentences. i would always describe it as i can her you are talking and i hear words but sometimes not all words and so I use context clues to assume the world I could not hear clearly. I am frustrated because when I tell the doctors at the ENT they say everyone does that. Dealing with ear infections as a child every other week and now as an adult dealing with an ear infection for almost a year before they could get rid of it I am not sure why they dont look further into this with me.
Interesting, I taught myself to read at the age of 19. I really struggled. I can’t stand it when there’s too much noise, I can’t concentrate. I also get easily distracted and didn’t do so well in school. I think knowing both Spanish and English it was super hard for me. This makes sense why I was smart, but got F’s. Even with earplugs it was hard to concentration.
I've never had an issue with reading, my reading level was way above expected for my age, but I cannot understand instructions that are more than one step! I need it repeated and emphasis placed on the important information. Sometimes I hear people speak and it just doesn't make sense, it's just noise, like there's a delay. Could this be because my brain is occupied by something else without me realising? Like anxiety?
This could be auditory processing disorder. Often reading is involved with APD, but not always. Anxiety could be contributing, but this sounds like more than just anxiety.
I've just learnt about this disorder, I think I need to get a referral from my doctor. I struggle to listen properly when I formulate a sentence because my brain is busy making words and it's difficult to listen at the same time. Also, I wear glasses and I really struggle to listen to someone talking to me if I'm not wearing them, isn't that weird? Also, I have to have subtitles on films and TV series otherwise I again struggle to absorb the information.
Hello I am 25 years old and have been recently diagnosed with both Auitory processing disorder and a language processing disorder. Now that I have been diagnosed I dont know what to do next on how to improve it or make my life easier. I'm in a relationship and it's really effecting us....they think that I am not listening as I forget a lot and will sometimes tests me and ask what they were just saying...if I get it wrong they get pretty upset with me and its devastating. Sometimes I get called retarded because I cant understand simple things like instructions, cant speak fluently, my writing is awful, cant recall lyrics from songs even christmas songs...cant remember people's names. I litterly feel useless and I really am wanting help so I can improve myself. I hate that others think that I just "dont try" or "care" enough. Instead I care to much, and it sucks because I can never explain myself. My vocabulary is very small..therefore my words are not strong enough for others to understand my daily struggle.
I do understand. This is really tough. There are a couple more videos on the Utah Neuro Rehabilitation TH-cam channel: Auditory processing disorder treatments and Treating Auditory Processing disorder. They may help you and those around you.
The best way I describe my auditory disorder to others is that my hearing of sounds is good but some words are hard for me to hear clearly. Kind of like listening to a song on the radio, some songs have words in the songs that are hard to hear clearly even with someone that doesn't have a auditory disorder. Someone with auditory disorder has this challenge with everyday conversation with another person. Most words I can hear clearly but some I hear kind of blurry. And these words are the ones that I also mispronounce. I discovered on my own that the best way to help myself is to identify the words that I have trouble hearing. Look them up on a google search and read them. While reading these words break down the syllables, sound out each syllable until it becomes easy then put it together. Repeat it out loud until it becomes natural. Then practice the spelling of each word. repeat this every time you hear a word that's difficult for you to hear clearly. Also reading books and writing is very healthy for speech. All these techniques have helped me very much. Ironically the words that I struggled hearing clearly after I apply these techniques I seem to hear them clearer.
Wow, thank you for these great suggestions. On the Utah Neuro Rehabilitation TH-cam channel we have a couple more videos on APD: Treating auditory processing disorder and Auditory processing disorder treatments.
It wasn’t until this year, my Junior year of high school, that I finally heard of ADP. I had fluid in my ears since I was born, and it wasn’t until I was 5 that it was finally removed. I lived normally since then, but now that school is more demanding, my friends are growing their social lives, and I’m managing a part time job at Chick-fil-A, it’s become paramount to be able to listen to what other people say, and to respond appropriately. Especially on the social aspect, I’ve struggled a lot, mostly because I’m lost on how to respond. Thank goodness I found out about this and I’m able to fix this struggle I’ve been facing for years now.
I've been brought to the doctors for my hearing multiple times by my mom as a kid because in her words "I always ask what someone says alot" and my doctors have come up with nothing. Maybe the occasional cleaning of my ears but nothing has improved after that. I've always been extremely insecure about this because people get so annoyed even after being asked to repeat themselves once. I started to realize there was a problem when I would go out with friends ordering food and they can hear PERFECTLY what the waiter/cashier said dispite all the sounds of people and beeping machines. I quit my first job as a Parsle clerk because I just couldn't decode what someone was telling me over the walkie-talkie. My partners could hear it just fine and I would always ask them to respond to it for me since I just didn't know what they said and asking them to repeat it over the radio didn't make much of a difference. I get so frustrated with myself because I can hear fine, but people don't understand why I can't process speech. "You're so deaf" "They've had to repeat themselves so many times" "I don't get why you don't listen" "is none of what I'm saying interesting to you?" It's so so humiliating.
I can pretty much check every box on the symptoms for this disorder. Is it worth getting tested and diagnosed? I’m 17 and feel like it’s worse now than when I was younger. In most of my classes I have good grades because my program is mostly based on self-learning the material, however, in French or English when we have mandatory listening quizzes I nearly fail them every time despite me being fluent in both languages.
It might be worth getting tested and diagnosed. Then you can get suggestions for help. Check out a couple of other videos on Utah Neuro Rehabilitation: Treating Auditory Processing Disorders and Auditory Processing Disorders Treatments. They may give you some suggestions.
Yes, it is a struggle and make life more difficult. If you want some suggestions for how to deal with it, there are another couple of videos on the Utah Neuro Rehabilitation channel: Auditory processing treatments and Treating auditory processing disorder.
Have always had this and can guarantee those that do most surly have dyslexia which also effects reading numbers as well as words. The faster you try to read or chunk information seems to just scramble comprehension. Trying to follow verbal instructions from supervisors or managers is frustrating because you know you will need to ask them to repeat themselves which just makes you feel and appear stupid. I'm 62 and only recently have finally understood what has impacted by learning and career opportunities my whole life. Kind of gut wrenching.
With auditory processing disorder, often information does not get into memory storage. So you cannot remember it because it was not processed and stored in the first place.
I think I might also have APD . If someone tells me instructions , I can hear the words , but I cant comprehend meaning Its like have to listen again to put one and one together
Got this after a head injury… it’s so grossly misunderstood that I often give up telling people or explaining. The ironic thing is that I’m at Medical school with doctors running the department!!
I sense that the audiologist had a lot of experience speaking with people who have CAPD, bc every time she spoke she spoke to the camera instead of the interviewer. Idk about others, but I learned to read lips to help combat my hearing impairment.
I appreciate that the presenters were speaking slowly and enunciating in this video, but as someone who relies on captions due to what I think is APD, why aren't there captions available for this video?
I have temporal auditory processing disorder, I am very well aware of what it is caused by. My son inherited from me. Mine is the result from unrecognised genetics, but also the main one is military. Having an inner explosion going off inside your ears like a bomb, and having sensory deafness, but also caused brain damage along with central nervous system damage and wiping out your internal systems, not to mention the abiity to cope with stress now non existant. Also processing slowly, and being in a slower area helps, but that processing speed required is barely moving, its stillness. Its slow and its thorough. It causes an absolute headache, problems and sensory overload, Silence is a relief, along with quiet and omg peace. I have been learning to deal with mine and my son's who is an adult now for a long time...its hard because it affects us differently, like opposites, and it can shut us down, so it can be dangerous....like shut your respiratory system down, or your digestive system, or your bowels, or etc. Then having to deal with, oh there is nothing you can do about it, or recommendations given that are exhausting, and we are disabled so its like you remember we are disabled? I am glad that you are making people aware about it, for me, its accepting and dealing with it and going ok there is disorder so lets reorder. Is it possible to restore functionality to dysfunctional and damage to the temporal auditory? so the very least you have a better processing, and also for the headache to go. It has increased my learning and understanding I was born gifted with.There has been benefits to having it along with awfulness....I think its how you deal with it. Problem is my gp now realises that it was a valuable learning for the medical, specialists....because we are very aware of it, and know what is going on inside of us, but the medical and others at the time, put it into the too hard basket. So I valued learaning about it, my son learnt about what he has and the intelligence grew as it is our classroom and hopefully now rehab....and there is nature where I am.
I’m probably on the spectrum & have ADD. I’d be busy staring at my fingers, feet, floor, room & just looking off during a convo like this. I don’t make perfect eye contact as I feel that’s more of a normal behavior to be looking around. It’s how I concentrate & stay focused or I’d get super distracted by the person I’m talking to. You both STARE at each other when talking & it honestly creeps me out. Can you explain why this bothers me? I am also high sensory. 😆
@@UtahNeuroRehabilitation Thank you so much for your explanation! That makes perfect sense. I never thought I’d still be struggling w/ SPD & ADD at my age.
Thank you for this information. However, there is not one mention of adults with this condition. What about someone who has spent their entire life with this condition and it went undiagnosed. It's very frustration that adults are never addressed. I've spent my entire life using the term "I don't understand". It's like being in a foreign country and not speaking the language. And I can't not follow directions if it's goes beyond two steps. I developed a debilitating driving phobia because I can't process driving directions....road signs....or verbal directions. I can only drive locally. I wish there were resources for adults. I only see help for children. Very frustrating!!!
The same principles that apply to children also apply to adults. There are other videos on the Utah Neuro Rehabilitation TH-cam channel on treating apd. You can also email me to discuss: nancy@wasatchapd.com
im 48 years old and realise i probably have add. i struggle massively with focus etc.. then i also come across your video and so much of this also makes sense to me. i my wife and her relatives can sometimes talk in monotone with rushed sentences.. its like i cant register a word of it! also, in crows, bars etc.. with lots of noise around me and just cannot hear people, that the friend next to me can, everything around me is just as lou i just cant comprehend. . i mean no offence to this at all, but the lady on the right, when she first started talking, her words seemed overly stretched out and it sent me ehad spinning losing complete focus... i wonder if i have apd!
The frustration of looking straight in their eyes as they speak and nothing goes into your head, is so discouraging. Like why am I so bad. Why can't I focus? I went to get my hearing check and lie saying I have trouble hearing just to get tested and come back with perfect hearing. Long story short, once stop taking my pills for my ADHD and after a bit over a week I lost the ability to read. That was the craziest experience and I took my pills nearly everyday since i was 6 and never experienced something like this before.
Do children change subjects a lot? & how do i keep on target? Without having that melt down... I myself have a hard time explaining things & have a hard time comprehending but i really want to help & not sure how & the school does not seem much help. How do i get help?
Watch the video "Treating Auditory Processing Disorder" on the Utah Neuro Rehabilitation channel. See if this answers your question. If not, get back to us. Thanks
Does anybody get complaint s that they speak too loudly, often times friends and family say I talk to loud even tho I feel I'm talking normal. To get to the point, is talking loudly related to Auditory Processing Disorder?
People have always told me I talk too quiet but I think Im speaking at the same level I always do. Its been really difficult especially now in my marriage 😔
This was something I was glad to figure out because I honestly just thought I was dumb, because I do not at all have trouble hearing but I always mishear things. ADP and my ADHD just go hand in hand I think, just a very scatter brained mind
I've always had problems with certain voices and words. I thought it was strange that I did well with Spanish language in school, but I think that might be because everything was over enunciated.
Hello. I have all of these symptoms but I was wondering if feeling panicked when there are too many noises or loud noises is part of this disorder as well?
As a child, I remember how it felt like I was tortured in class with this disorder. Labeled slow with my 1st grade teacher. In the 60s I was diagnosed with mirror reading that is called dyslexia by a eye doctor. Schools didn't recognize dyslexia then. Later would find out that with dyslexia disorder a person can have auditory processing problems spelling problems. When the teacher would speak, I often did not understand no matter how hard I tried. I needed repeating. I wouldn't ask because of embarrassment. I thought I was dumb. Wasn't till I had myself tested at a college that I found out I had a auditory disorder and how my dyslexia played a strong roll.
I'm sorry you had to go through so much struggle. We really need to increase understanding of these conditions so that people do not grow up thinking they are stupid.
I got diagnosed with autism and ADHD witch just made school harder) The teachers just didn't know how to handle me, or what to do with me. They were always super rude to me, aswell. So when I was like 9 or 10, my mum decided to homeschool me instead. I actually ended up learning a lot more in homeschooling than normal school.
I have adp I learned that my trauma played a huge role in being present in the moment when you find peace and comfort and safety things become more clear when I breathe and slow down I can take in information like no one’s business there’s no magic pill if it works you wouldn’t need a refill.
I’ve been diagnosed with this as a kid and yeah it’s really difficult to listen most the time, like I miss hear things so much, or confuse it for another word most the time or confuse the sentence whole
In my situation I was very good at reading and struggled with spelling. In 7th grade I was able to take normal reading class but still required special ed classes for writing. Everyone is different reading the comment section.
All I know is that I can't follow instructions for the life of me, not via audio or if it's written down on paper, I need to be shown how it's done and then I know how to do it. I can read just fine, I can follow conversations just fine(I think). But maybe this is not enough to say I have this condition? The one about not being able to filter out sounds in a loud classroom is very accurate for me. Like especialy in highschool I was barely getting any work done during class (cuz my class just wouldn't STFU EVER) so I did most of the work when I came home to not fail that class...
I think this article will be helpful to you to know more about Auditory Processing Disorder 👉 myoccu.blogspot.com/2020/05/who-are-children-behavior-of-school.html
I can hear very well but I don't know where the sound comes from. Is this CAPD ? I have no other symptom. I read well but I am slow processing information. I hate noise. Normally, I isolate myself from noisy places or people. It infuriates me.... I only took notice of this condition some 15 years ago. It wasn't like this when I was younger. I am 66 years old now.
Wow this always sounded like something I've struggled with my entire life! I was Diagnosed with a Language Disability and I'm pretty sure I have APD as well as my hearing is fine. But even when I was little til now, with loud environments with tvs, multiple ppl talking, it's hard to figure out what someone is saying and having to ask multiple times and ppl get frustrated it makes me upset...
It is very frustrating. There are two more videos on the Utah Neuro Rehabilitation TH-cam channel for ways to help: Treating Auditory Processing Disorder and Auditory Processing Disorder Treatments.
is that when you hear stuff and dont process it right away? example, more often than not i'll have someone say something, ill ask "huh?" and before they can answer in my head a hypothetical echo of what they said will sound and I will have "heard them the first time" before they can repeat themselfs
Check out two videos on the Utah Neuro Rehabilitation youtube channel: Auditory processing disorder treatments and Treating auditory processing disorder.
Me: suspects I have APD and watches this video to find out Also Me: originally misheard the part where she says "audiologist" as "idealogist" before I realized it doesn't make sense in context.
I think this article will helpful to you to know more about Auditory Processing Disorder 👉 myoccu.blogspot.com/2020/05/who-are-children-behavior-of-school.html
I think I struggle with this it makes me feel stupid most times I have struggled where when people talk to me I feel like they are saying things that sounds like what they are saying..but heard them wrong ..I also feel like I struggle with concentrating and ADHD
Wait this is a symptom? Cuz like i can memorise song lyrics or could a few years back but now I can just remember a few sentences after listening to it for like 10-20 times and other people around me are like singing the whole song almost just listening to it like 5 times
Idk for sure that I have this but for me I literally can't hear anyone in a noisy pub and it's really embarassing and awful because they know I am not deaf and think I'm just being difficult or not paying attention.
This might be me. I cannot have a conversation if the TV is on even turned down low. And then people think I'm ignoring them because I'm too easily distracted by the other noise. Or I keep asking them to repeat themselves so they get frustrated and don't want to continue :( I also have MS. An neurological autoimmune disease that affects your brain and spinal cord.
I struggle to hear people, but I was tested and they said my hearing is better than normal. It felt like I was just imagining it. Now I’m wondering if I have APD, but I don’t want to go and then they say I don’t have that either. Like please I just want to hear people.
The concepts are the same for kids and adults. There are two more videos on the Utah Neuro Rehabilitation Channel on APD: Treating Auditory Processing Disorder and Auditory Processing Disorder Treatments.
Forgot to mention that we can only understand a single person at a time. If I have more than 1 person talking to me I only parts and pieces from each of them.
Cant believe I took 17 years to know what i had that was up with me, I would always read things in tests or hear things in videos then have repeat tit to myself tons of times until I processed what I was hearing or processed what I was reading
I wonder if I have this.. I struggle in class because when my teachers give instructions (like fore example, if they assigned something on our school computers) I would end up just starting at the screen completely confused. I heard what the teachers ask me to do but it doesn’t click in my brain.
For me it’s like having to translate constantly. There’s a middle man between sound in my ears & my brain actually soaking it up. I’m hearing you talking but there’s an extra step before I understand
I love how clearly you both enunciate. I wish more people would do that. I've been told that my hearing is normal, but I tell people all the time that if they don't have my attention or I can't see them, I cannot understand what they're saying. All I hear is gibberish. Sometimes I can take a second and replay the noise and kind of take a guess at what was said. It can also be very amusing when I get it wrong. (You'd be amazed at how many things sound like "I love you") It's just rough because I grew up with a semi deaf dad, so I'm used to talking to someone who actually can't hear me well at all. But my husband isn't, and gets so frustrated when I have to ask him to repeat himself. The worst thing people do is just saying "nevermind"
Thank you for sharing. Yes, the "never mind" comment is frustrating!
thank you for telling me that because i get frustrated with my daughter and say nevermind
@@carnishacampbell1352 yeah getting told nevermind kinda feels like the person regrets trying to tell you something. Like, it was important enough for you to say once, so it was clearly important enough to get me to understand. I know the frustration of being the person that's never heard, but just try to consider it from the perspective of someone who has to risk irritating people every single time they don't hear something. It's not something we can control, and it takes a lot of cooperation from people around us
Thank god someone understands the annoyance of “never mind”
I quit working in customer service because people are very rude if you ask them to repeat what they said.
"Weren't you listening?!" I heard that way too much in Elementary school. Getting punished for shit that you can't help blows.
Yes, that is so frustrating. I hear that a lot with people with APD.
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@Ethan Kyler Sounds like a legit business!
Hell, I still hear it as an adult.
fr though 😔 I heard that often too and it was so frustrating and sad… (I’m quite a sensitive person so I tries super hard not to cry whenever that was told to me)
I was diagnosed with APD as a young child and struggled with it a lot through school. It was really hard for me to read and write and still today my spelling is really bad. I'm horrible at following directions and I forget things all the time, even if someone just told me. It's really hard for me to learn people's names and other bits of info like dates. I space out a lot and have a short attention span even when I'm trying really hard to listen or even when I'm very interested in what I'm hearing. It helps a lot though seeing videos like this that validate my struggles. I feel like APD is a very unknown condition that's not talked about often. I didn't receive a lot of help through school , but I feel like if more people know about APD then kids in the future will have an easier time and be more accommodated for.
You are so right. APD leads to a lot of struggles and is not well understood. I hope we can teach more people about it. Thank you for your comments.
I'm exactly the same. I didn't know I had APD until I watched a random video about.
Same here!
I wish I'd known about it young and had tools. I found out about mine in college. Bonus? Recorded lectures!
Same here.
Ive never been diagnosed, but I’ve always struggled with hearing people, especially when there’s background noise. It’s like I can hear that someone is saying something but it just sounds like noise. It gets a little better if I focus but I still miss a ton of words when there’s other noise of any sort going on.
You certainly could have auditory processing difficulties.
Same here. I've been told by relatives, friends, teachers, and co workers that I never listen. Now I know it's not my ears, it's my brain.
Straight up sometimes it's like the adults in Peanuts. There's sound and I'm sure they're saying words but it's like, oh hey someone's having a conversation in the same room so now it's W O R D S O U P
When there’s more then one person in a room and they are talking I have a hard time following when they speak at the same time. I am unable to make eye contact with them and I have said,” wait wait stop I can’t follow,”
Btw to add I have a form of asd
@@thomaswhite3059 that’s how I describe auditory processing
This makes lots of sense. I used to work in a place where hearing protection was required and we were tested for hearing loss every year. I always passed with 95% in both ears. But during conversations with people, sometimes their words would turn into mush halfway through a sentence and I'd have to ask them to repeat themselves. I'd try to repeat the noise that came out of their mouth as close as I could. Normally not much of a problem except if you ever get pulled over by the police and they think you're mocking them.
my long lost twin, is that you?
You made me laugh. I imagined the police thinking he is being "mocked"😂I was never diagnosed. But maybe 6 years ago, my sister made me aware that I respond inadequately to people questions. Well that was because I didn't get what they said, and I responded to what I thought they said. I got panicked that I might be deaf. Because I had to rely heavily on reading their lips. So we found a center for hearing loss that were performing hearing tests. My hearing results were excellent, although I noticed that 3 words the lady said, were something else that I heard. I am still not diagnosed but at least I know that I am not deaf. I was made aware about that disorder, by an physical therapist who had a child with this disorder. That made me wonder if I have it as well. Whatever it is, it didn't stop me from learning almost 4 languages. @Lance Westveer
So grateful for TH-cam auto generated subtitles so I know what these ladies are talking about.
They made a video about apd with terrible sound. This is almost abilist and at the least very short sited of typical neurotypival people.
I’m 20 years old and just now learning about ADP. I had a ton of ear infections as a kid so that could be why. I also deal with social anxiety and ADHD, I have a hard time understanding what anybody talks about and my anxiety Keeps me from asking people to repeat themselves. Thank you for this video!
My son was young when he dealt with ear infections and his ENT doctor said this would happen as he got older because of ear infections. Now I'm in a process to finding out if he have this and to get him help asap.
Same here I hate to ask people to repeat themselves cuz they get frustrated
ummm Jay, are you me?!
Oh I had a ton of ear infections as a kid too & have APD - it all makes sense now!
@@slinkywhippet it really does make so much sense now
I have it with my autism! Sometimes when I'm done with the conversation I forget most of what they said or what they just said in class
They should explain what kind there are and so I can direction on which one I have
oh me too!
@@roadtriiip cool!
I have other neurological conditions such as Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia and ADD as well as APD.
TheSilent AngryCat me too!!
As someone with APD this is so validating to hear, and know that others experience this and that Its not my fault or that I am the cause
I'm doing pretty well in college. When it comes to studying, I know what works best for me & what doesn't work for me. My biggest struggle is that I have a hard time following detailed instructions/directions. I always make sure to read the material ahead of time, bring a recorder (if allowed, of course) & a notepad. It works for me. If I'm put on the spot without any preparation, I freeze.
Great strategies you are using!
I just finished college with honors, although I barely graduated high school. I was diagnosed with APD when I was in elementary. I struggled with reading and writing and attended speech class. Being in special education did not help because the room was filled with kids with learning disabilities and behavioral problems (does not mix). I remember my accounting teacher in college stopped in the middle of his lecture and asked me if my pencil was on fire because of how much notes I took in class. Like you said preparation is the most important thing for us. I hope you are still doing well.
@@rickypelletier363 First of all, congratulations! I'm always proud to know when a fellow APD struggler is succeeding. It seems that we have to work harder than most, so I hope you celebrated! I was also placed into speech therapy and special education. I agree with you that it wasn't very helpful. I never felt supported or encouraged. I just think they didn't know much about APD. I had to figure out how to cope with it on my own. :/ I finally hit my stride once I reached college. I'm doing well so far! Thank you for asking! I got accepted into a healthcare program that will begin in August. I'm excited, but nervous. As long as I stay prepared and ahead of the game, I should do just fine!
Same
Thanks for this. I'm an adult who was always told I just have selective deafness. Or I just choose what I want to listen to. I've had heaps of hearing tests and my hearing is fine, but especially now in this pandemic, with face masks being worn it's heightened how much of a problem it is for me. This helped me explain to my husband and to my friends what I hear, because it's quite similar. Even down to say, watching a TH-cam video. If my device is the only noise source it's fine. But if my husband sits near me doing the same thing, he scrambles the noise on my device. So thanks for this. You've made it a bit easier for me to get people to understand.
Hah got perfect hearing as long as its only one sound 👌
Is anyone else here because of not being able to read lips with masks? I went to an audiologist assuming I had some hearing loss over the years and the doctor said my ears were fine. She told me a lot of adults find this out later then she literally just told me to google it- no referral. It makes so much sense, I was diagnosed with adhd but have been off meds for years and always questioned the diagnosis. I also had horrendous ear infections as a kid. One thing I never understood- I'll type a rhyming word instead of the word I'm meaning but again, this all makes a lot of sense
Dr. Gooch, you were my auditory therapist back in 1993 after I was in a bike accident. Fun to see you online now!
This was a really interesting video!
It's a real struggle when people say I need to 'pay attention'. Paying attention isn't the issue. It's that I cannot listen, then give my brain adequate time to understand, and then take meaningful notes... especially while someone is still talking in the background. In college I survived by reading my textbooks (I understand perfectly when I read) and then listening to the lecture.
I've developed my own coping mechanisms - ask frequent (annoying) questions so I make sure I am keeping up with the discussion. Ask A or B type questions to make sure I understand what was said - 'Did you mean A or B?' It is always a struggle to determine the meaning behind what a person says. I'm the best texting/emailing buddy a person could ever have. 😆
At work I am frequently scheduling meetings to discuss a previous meeting. It seems to help my entire team, but they don't know why I do it.
Also, my questioning tends to make people feel deeply heard. 'Wow, no one has ever cared So Much about what I have to say' is something I hear often. 🤣 It is easy to enthral people who have never felt 'heard' or 'seen' in life. I just annoy everyone else, especially those in a crisis who want to be understood without all the damn questions.
Anywho. Keep doing the good work!
Wow, it is great to hear from you. I love your compensatory strategies.
Thanks. I almost do same.
my big clue into this disorder was the forgetfulness of sequences, directions, letters, numbers, etc. i would be at work and couldn’t remember a simple 2-3 step instruction without having someone re-explain or me repeating the instructions back minutes later. i also turn down music, the tv, any background noise for those talking to me and try to give them my best possible attention. i’m 30 and have just stumbled upon this disorder within the last 3-4 years, but it makes total sense for me! i’ve actually talked to my mom about my childhood behavior and she said that i needed more repeating before something would sink in for me. thank you for explaining this a little more in-depth and i hope more come to understand this!
Thank you for sharing this information.
they are so awesome for purposefully speaking slowly and clearly for those with this kind of problem
Yet the sound quality is so bad it is hard to listen to. Echos in a video about apd, really?
My whole life I've felt like I was always missing things in conversations, I always had to ask people "what?" at least three times and have gotten really good at making up responses that work in any situation in case I can't figure out what the person has said. I could never understand the lyrics in songs, and often had trouble understanding what the characters in movies, shows and plays were saying. I didn't have any trouble learning to read as a kid though, but a few of my old teachers from elementary have told my parents that they think I might have ADHD or to "watch out" for ADHD symptoms. I just found out and started researching about APD and I think there's a possibility I might have it. I hope that if I do, there's a treatment out there that will help.
I hope you do find help. There are a couple more videos on the Utah Neuro Rehabilitation TH-cam channel that might help: Treating Auditory Processing Disorder and Auditory Processing Disorder Treatments.
It’s weird because I do the *what what what* thing but I learn lyrics fo fast. I’ve been diagnosed since a kid and it’s annoying but it isn’t the worst thing you could have.
I never liked live action shows or movies when I was little because characters would always mumble so low in those dramatic scenes I couldn’t understand what they were saying (similar with animated but wasn’t as bad)
The joys of subtitles are beautiful
@@Kitty294_ 😂I thought it was just me. Everyone else can make out what the actors in the movies are saying, but it always sounds like they’re whispering to me. My husband gets annoyed when I keep asking questions, but it’s literally because half the time I can only make out bits and pieces of what’s being said. Which is odd because as far as I know, my ability to hear is normal. I also have trouble keeping up in conversations. People sometimes think I’m being rude and just not listening to them. When it’s just that my brain struggles with trying to process, analyze and filter out all these words being said to me all at once. I didn’t know there’s was actually a name for this condition. So now I need to figure out how to fix it.
I can relate 100%
At some point in my life I thought that I am deaf, because I had to read people's lips in order to help myself to understand them. Often all the words were one lump, that was hard to divide and understand. I had to ask the person to repeat the sentence, and every repetition sounded exactly the same, and impossible for me to grasp separate words. I often ignored the sentences that I couldn't decipher. But sometimes you really need that piece of information in order to put all the information together. I can't remember to have that problem as a child. It was making my life harder as an adult. I had my hearing checked and it is perfect. I am not sure if that qualifies as an auditory processing disorder? Thank you for your video.
I’m 24 and I have only just recently been properly diagnosed with this. I also have some visual processing difficulties, but my auditory processing difficulties are much more prominent. As a child my mum thought I needed grommets in my ears, but every time the specialist would say there was nothing wrong with my hearing. It’s only now that I’m having a psychiatrist try to improve that and my poor memory for me.
I am glad you are finally able to work on it
I just turned 23. My mom and I found out that I was diagnosed with Auditory Process Disorder when I was little.
@Heaven Bunny so it is possible to improve memory? I don't remember half of my life. I wish it was possible to improve it.
I have APD, and am so grateful that you all did this video about it.
There really should be more awareness of APD in the mainstream media. When is APD Awareness Day, Week, Month ?
ive struggled with apd (diagnosed) as long as i can remember, thanks for educating!
The woman in the video said there are different types of APD. I'm not sure which of those I have.
Yes, I definitely have a auditory processing disorder. I don't have any hearing loss.
I'm 44 and only got diagnosed with APD in my late 30s. I was told by several specialists when I was a kid that I "just wasn't paying attention enough" and for most of my life I've had to have to use context, lip reading & educated guesses to have a conversation. Maybe it wasn't a well known diagnosis in the 80s/90s?. I'm so glad I mentioned it to my GP a few years ago & saw a consultant who told me my hearing is actually better than it should be given my age but that my brain simply wasn't processing the sounds. Honestly it validated my experience & made me understand that it wasn't my fault. I saw a wonderful speech & auditory therapist who helped me with coping strategies which have made my life a little easier.
Thanks for the video ❤
Thank you for sharing this. It is good to hear that you got help. A lot of people do not get the help they need.
Hello Slinky_whippet can you tell me what strategy and training you had taken?
I was Diagnosed with APD in primary school. I was also diagnosed with ADD, OCD and Dyslexia. I never knew there was a treatment, but my mom did a lot to make sure that I would have extra time in exams and a scribe who would read and write for me, and break up the sentence so that I would understand. My mom also made sure that these disorders were never seen as disorders because it comes off as negative, so she helped me and my sister to understand that we think differently, but we are still normal. And so I learned to embrace it to the point where I had to ask my mom the other day which one of us Siblings had ADD again🤣 Thanks mom❤
That is fantastic!. What a wonderful thing your mom did!!!
Been diagnosed with APD since I was very young (1st grade) and was unfortunately was dealing with other issues at the time which didn't help.
I find being stressed out can make APD much worse.
I'm now 32 years old and doing better with the challenges Auditory Processes Disorder has, but at times it can really mess with me due to negative influences I (used) to have. Parents found out and put a quick end to it. Had my 3rd grade teacher berate & tease me. I had this headphones/microphone thing which would change audio from ear to ear to help keep me focused. He'd use it as a tool for punishment if I got anything wrong or asked for him to repeat. Almost ended in a lawsuit. Grandparents were also a horrible example, saying I was lying and there was no way I was that **tarded or stupid. Really messed with me since I was trying my best.
I don't want pity or anything, but if anybody here reads this who is going through a similar situation. Please k ow you're perfectly fine and you're no less smart or wonderful than anybody else. People who purposefully hurt you are wrong, and while it might take a extra step for you to understand something at least you can learn unlike certain close-minded people.
Just keep doing your best and go at your own comfortable pace. Try to find things you absolutely love to use as helpful tools to try and improve. That way if you're caught in a fog or having difficulty understanding or thinking it's easier to try again, or keep at it without getting too frustrated or disheartened.
I am so sorry that you needed to go through all this. It is extremely unfair. Thank you for sharing this. It is powerful information. I am going to make a video with your comments. This is really important for people to hear. Thank you!!
I am currently 18 and undiagnosed.
Growing up, I struggled so much in school when I had been given verbal directions. I was always a great, straight A student but none of my teachers could understand why I just didn't hear them when they pulled me aside for a 1-on-1 Benchmark discussion about a certain reading. I remember one day in second grade, my teacher got so upset that I kept asking her to repeat her question that she just sent me to the nurse's office. The nurse set me up on the beeping machine and I rose my hand at every beep and got sent back to class like nothing happened. Then I visited ENT specialists who tried to clean earwax and I often got set up with the beeping machine but I almost always heard every single beep. It just didn't make sense. They tried to suggest that I had fluid behind my ears but my mom wasn't sure about that so we went home and nothing has really happened since then.
Throughout the rest of the years, I somewhat got by but these issues came up again. I remember in 11th grade when my history teacher started using some videos for certain topics and we had to answer questions in order without pausing the video. There weren't any subtitles or transcript I could read along with and thus, I couldn't retain the information long enough to properly do those assignments. I nearly teared up once from the stress of trying to process the information. And my family tries to speak to me and they'll give up and say "nevermind" or they'll bring it up later and ask: "don't you remember me asking you this question?" And I always tell them I just couldn't hear or I had no recollection of them even speaking to me.
Like I said, I'm still undiagnosed so I don't even know if I have this condition. But these videos are helping me so much by finally making me feel like I have a reason for my challenges so thank you.
Thank you for sharing this. It certainly sounds like you may have APD. There are a couple more videos on the Utah Neuro Rehabilitation channel that might help: Treating auditory processing disorder and auditory processing disorders treatments. Can you get tested?
i was diagnosed with central auditory processing when i was about 8 i think. im still struggling with it and i super appreciative this video! super accurate
tthirdmember trans rights same! Except I was 9 when I was diagnosed, I’m still struggling today
Can I ask u a question. Do u have a hard time comprehending your work as well? When U was in school at that age and older?
HALE HALE yes indeed
Funny my whole life I’d tell people in a group setting the same phrase...”everyone sounds like the school teacher in Charlie Brown...bwha bwaa waa waaab!”
Now this has me wondering..ty
The charisma in the video is palpable.
I was diagnosed at 19. Before that I was mis diagnosed as Attention deficit disorder and put on ritalin. Alot of years not diagnosed has held me back alot with work life and life in general
I'm so sorry to hear that
Same here. Got diagnosed with OCD and Auditory Processing disorder at age 24. I've always knew there was something wrong with me as a kid. As I grew up, school and adulthood had been hard. For a long while I was a complete shut in. Opening up to my family about my anxiety and problems has always been shrugged off. I've not really worked alot since I got out of high-school because of my OCD and Auditory problems. So my family thought I was being lazy and berate me. Example like "Do something with your fucking life" or "Grow up". I've been a complete failure to start my life due my illness that I started believing maybe I was lazy as well. I feel so guilty and shame that I disappointed my family since I have to rely on their financial support. Now that I'm medicated for my OCD I'm able to work without anxiety. But I just feel so dead inside... I'm seeing a therapist in a week.
@@threeequalsd4865 Really hope the therapy helps! Just try to remember to focus more on *yourself* rather than what other people or your family think about you.
Sincerely hope you feel better soon.
I am (a very young :) ) 61. I recently read through my K through 4 report cards and the teachers each described exactly the symptoms discussed here, and also the expected problems I had early on acquiring reading and spelling, requiring a quiet class room in order to do well, etc. This was quite a revelation to me because it explains so much. One question I have is are you only born with this, or can it be acquired later in childhood from sickness, injury, or lack of adequate verbal interaction as an infant?
Often people are born with it. It can also be acquired from an injury to the brain.
Luckily I was diagnosed quite early on with APD. My mom was always eager to explain to each teacher the needs of people with APD (e.g. confirming instructions or writing them down, etc..). I adapted quite well into school life. A thing I still really struggle with are social things: people being annoyed when i ask them to repeat things (being seen as unattentive or simply not listening) and avoiding being with many people or at a social gathering place and this being seen as antisocial or introverted. In fact I really like talking and being with people, but it is very hard to try and follow a simple conversation, when you cant understand 80% of it; but also the general noise sensitivity and getting earaches after a while in loud surrounding.
The most frustrating thing is when trying to explain the condition and people simply saying that you "just need to concentrate more" :(
Btw. Great video for explaining APD
Especially since you speak very clearly and I am able to turn on the subtitles to easier follow the conversation :)
I've only learned about this a few years ago. I wish somebody would have caught on when I was a kid.
Thank you for sharing this....this woman is very detailed....I like how she breaks things down....please do more videos like this....maybe she can also share techniques that parents can do at home with their kids to learn ....pleeaazzee...thanks
Check out the two other videos: Treating Auditory Processing Disorders and Auditory Processing Disorder Treatments.
Thank you for this -very- informative production. I suspect I have had APD most of my near-adult and adult life, and now I know who to consult to get this properly diagnosed, and how to get it treated or accommodated.
I was diagnosed with APD about 7 years ago so I was soon assigned an FM system to help me hear the teacher’s voice better and filter out all the other sounds (2 parts: teacher piece was a mic and my piece was receiving the sound) I know it was to help make my learning easier but it was still stressful.. It was also quite noticeable (both parts, it’s gone through some changes and now it’s a bit more discreet and modern mostly for my ear pieces.. but people still think I’m deaf.. because my ear pieces look like hearing aids)
Kids ask me about it so I constantly explain to them what it was (most of the time I didn’t know how to explain or what it was either)
constantly reminding the teachers to mute and unmute their mic (when they don’t mute themselves I often hear many things: private teacher talks, them helping other students with questions and my *favourite*, blowing their noses 😀 which makes things a bit embarrassing, mostly for them) I know the teacher has a bunch of other kids to look after but at least still try and remember… they always seem to put most of the responsibility on me for anything relating to the FM.. substitutes are mostly harder but there have been about 2 occasions when I was finally given a stress break)
*Instructions are a b***.* (I don’t have much confidence so I always ask the teacher for almost everything because I’m scared I missed some information..)
Movies are hard to listen to because sometimes information was hard to hear and process. Now that we have apps for watching things, I like turning on subtitles for movies and shows because it’s easier for me to understand (not always but still better) I never liked live-action movies for this reason because sometimes actors would mumble so low I could never understand what was being said.
Please, try to have some patience and make things clearer for us.. For example, when we ask you to repeat again what you’ve said a few times, don’t reply with “never mind”, because it makes us think you regret saying it to us in the first place. In more my case when watching movies I tend to ask a lot of questions throughout the movie (I know it can be frustrating because you’re trying to concentrate on what’s happening I will ask questions so I can understand too…)
*Overall, just remember to be a bit more mindful to everyone*
Wonderful advice. Thank you very much!!!
This is great, I’ve been trying to find more information about the disorders I have. I have this auditory processing disorder, dyslexia, and A.D.D
I’ve never been diagnosed with APD and I know for sure that I have really good and sensitive hearing, but I remember having difficulties understanding what my parents/friends/teachers said since 8-9 years old. I would often repeat “huh ?”, to which my parents would laugh and say “Are you impersonating a grandma ?”. It didn’t make me angry nor sad, because I thought maybe a lot of kids are like that. Now that I am in my late teens, I become more self-aware, and started noticing that I really can’t tell what people are saying in (even mildly) noisy environments. My brain often tries to auto-complete the words I didn’t get, but they often don’t match the person’s actual words. I also tend to forget what has been said if I don’t create a clear mental image of it, or if I don’t write it down.
I’ve been recently diagnosed aspie, I wonder if it has anything to do with that, and if what I’m describing could actually be APD ?
It certainly could be APD. On the Utah Neuro Rehabilitation channel, we have posted two more videos on treating APD. There may be some suggestions to help you.
Yeah I have this for sure. Because one time I was having a convo with my cousin, and I told him that I couldn't hear what he was saying. Even tho he was not far away from me, and that pissed him off. Even tho I was trying to hear what he was saying. I'm not good at debating or fast emotional discussions, or following complex directions without needing some reassurance. Like it could be something as simple as picking up something in my aunts room, and if I cant identify the item right away? Then I'll just start to wonder, and have to ask her what it was again. I like having some kind of extra support so if I get stuck I can ask the other person whats going on, and get my mind unstuck right away. Like right now due to covid we're having college online. But I am not doing good since its not in person. I am gonna end up failing my classes. Because the work is coming in way too fast, and the online support is not gonna be enough for me. My mind cant keep up with all this work, and this APD didn't make it any easier. I wasted hours trying to read something for an assignment I wasn't even support to read, and then for another assignment I misinterpreted the teacher saying, "You must message all the students in the class with 2-3 sentences." So I literally tried to message ALL the students, and I wasn't even supposed to do that! I barely made it though the FIRST week of assignments just a few days ago. Then got crushed by all the rest...
This is why I like having 1 other person around me. So if I waste a lot of time trying to do something, and I'm doing it wrong the whole time? With that little extra help/perspective I can prevent all that from the beginning. Save myself a lot of time, frustration and criticism. Before I get too deep into doing something incorrectly. So I don't think I would be able to study well without some type of guidance, or I'll just study wrong, and waste a lot of time doing that before I realize I'm doing it wrong. I do better watching videos, looking at visuals, and long 1 on 1 interactions. If there is too much reading, or talking too fast I can misinterpret a lot of stuff. Then what makes it worse, when I try to get help? So many people will be like, "Why cant you just figure it out? Why cant you just do it all on your own?" Well I would love too dummies! But I would waste a lot of time doing that. Cuz I know I'm gonna misinterpret something due to the APD, and then move completely in the wrong direction. Now when I go try to just "figure it all out only to mess up?" Then those same people will be like, 'Why did you do that? What was you thinking? Why did you say that?" Gets so annoying. There is a lot of people that don't got no time to help you do something right. But ALWAYS got the time to point out when you do something wrong... If I was rich I would pay a person to come to my house every day to teach me how to do whatever it is I'm lacking in, or wanna learn how to do.
Thank you for sharing. Often colleges have disability centers. If you possibly get some help through there.
I had testing today and although the written report will be ready next week, at 50 years old the doctor just told me I have APD. I am glad to know but feeling very sad as this has effected my entire life negatively, to the point of being abused, called names, and even physically hit because I "wasn't listening". But I didn't understand or "compute" the directions is all 🤷♀️ I graduated college 2 Saturdays ago with high honors. If I have extra time I obviously can figure out academics, etc..
I am sorry you have had these difficulties. It is wonderful you graduated college. We have two more videos on APD on this channel: Treating apd and apd treatments. Best of luck to you.
Dyslexia for the ears I tell people. I've had a hearing loss all my life and been in hearing aids for 2 decades. Have never had an audiologist who was knowledgeable about apd or knew but not how to treat. Have a son who had undiagnosed visual convergence insufficiency who was diagnosed in Houston, since he still could not read in 5th grade. Once diagnosed he had 9 months of intense visual therapy and his balance ( he used to flip flop, part of the testing showed he had to control over things like turning his feet to pigeon or duck stance)and eyes strengthend and he not only could read, he greatly in school and was out of special Ed by HS. It was then I felt that part of hearing loss was a Neuro thing and had hope maybe some Neuro therapy could help improve my brain. Wearing hearing aids in a crowd with npd is painful and I usually miss 90 % I'd there are multiple conversations going , like restaurants, very frustrating. This gives me hope, surely there is therapist in Houston so thank you for this video !
I grew up with central audatatry processesing disorder, now known APD.
its amazing how much they do not know and how it affects a person.
I've been doing a lot of reading into CAPD lately. I was diagnosed when I was a little kid. The first time my mom mentioned I had it was when I was 10 but she rarely brought it up so I have to learn everything on my own. I read in a couple articles that even though its neurological and doesn't effect the inner ears people with CAPD/APD are considered hard of hearing because it effects how they hear language, is that true? I struggle a lot with communication. There have been times people try to talk to me and because their is so much interference or I'm having a hard day that it doesn't even sound like we are speaking the same language.
Do you ever get that 1 question that you KNOW the answer too? But just cant remember what the answer is? So you have a long pause with the person trying to remember the answer, and since the person has been waiting so long you just blurt something out, and cross your fingers that your brain remembers the right thing at the last moment?
It is not actually how they hear language, rather how the brain interprets the language that they hear.
i have apd but i only struggle with taking in information through words but visually i am ok i guess. My results arent bad i just have to have things explained to me sometimes 3 or 4 times. My teachers are good at helping me though.
i just recently got diagnosed and i'm so happy it's been since i was 2 weeks and a half years old i've been had bad hearing
I have always had problems with hearing, but I've never had an issue with my ears. So I've only come to the conclusion that I have Auditory Processing Disorder. I also have Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia.
What are those
It is a possibility I have this and at the age of 52 I was just made aware of this disorder.
It is possible to get Auditory Process Disorder as an adult. A book I suggest is, When the Brain Can't hear.
34sillyband thanks. I will look into getting that book. I think I have had it for ever possibly because I remember always feeling like I had to listen harder and look at lips to understand some sentences. i would always describe it as i can her you are talking and i hear words but sometimes not all words and so I use context clues to assume the world I could not hear clearly. I am frustrated because when I tell the doctors at the ENT they say everyone does that. Dealing with ear infections as a child every other week and now as an adult dealing with an ear infection for almost a year before they could get rid of it I am not sure why they dont look further into this with me.
Interesting, I taught myself to read at the age of 19. I really struggled. I can’t stand it when there’s too much noise, I can’t concentrate. I also get easily distracted and didn’t do so well in school. I think knowing both Spanish and English it was super hard for me. This makes sense why I was smart, but got F’s. Even with earplugs it was hard to concentration.
I've never had an issue with reading, my reading level was way above expected for my age, but I cannot understand instructions that are more than one step! I need it repeated and emphasis placed on the important information. Sometimes I hear people speak and it just doesn't make sense, it's just noise, like there's a delay. Could this be because my brain is occupied by something else without me realising? Like anxiety?
This could be auditory processing disorder. Often reading is involved with APD, but not always. Anxiety could be contributing, but this sounds like more than just anxiety.
I was diagnosed as a child and still struggle with it
I've just learnt about this disorder, I think I need to get a referral from my doctor. I struggle to listen properly when I formulate a sentence because my brain is busy making words and it's difficult to listen at the same time. Also, I wear glasses and I really struggle to listen to someone talking to me if I'm not wearing them, isn't that weird? Also, I have to have subtitles on films and TV series otherwise I again struggle to absorb the information.
Hello I am 25 years old and have been recently diagnosed with both Auitory processing disorder and a language processing disorder. Now that I have been diagnosed I dont know what to do next on how to improve it or make my life easier. I'm in a relationship and it's really effecting us....they think that I am not listening as I forget a lot and will sometimes tests me and ask what they were just saying...if I get it wrong they get pretty upset with me and its devastating. Sometimes I get called retarded because I cant understand simple things like instructions, cant speak fluently, my writing is awful, cant recall lyrics from songs even christmas songs...cant remember people's names. I litterly feel useless and I really am wanting help so I can improve myself. I hate that others think that I just "dont try" or "care" enough. Instead I care to much, and it sucks because I can never explain myself. My vocabulary is very small..therefore my words are not strong enough for others to understand my daily struggle.
I do understand. This is really tough. There are a couple more videos on the Utah Neuro Rehabilitation TH-cam channel: Auditory processing disorder treatments and Treating Auditory Processing disorder. They may help you and those around you.
I do get some of small amount. information many time I notice when Dr give me verbal information it mixes up in my head
The best way I describe my auditory disorder to others is that my hearing of sounds is good but some words are hard for me to hear clearly. Kind of like listening to a song on the radio, some songs have words in the songs that are hard to hear clearly even with someone that doesn't have a auditory disorder. Someone with auditory disorder has this challenge with everyday conversation with another person. Most words I can hear clearly but some I hear kind of blurry. And these words are the ones that I also mispronounce. I discovered on my own that the best way to help myself is to identify the words that I have trouble hearing. Look them up on a google search and read them. While reading these words break down the syllables, sound out each syllable until it becomes easy then put it together. Repeat it out loud until it becomes natural. Then practice the spelling of each word. repeat this every time you hear a word that's difficult for you to hear clearly. Also reading books and writing is very healthy for speech. All these techniques have helped me very much. Ironically the words that I struggled hearing clearly after I apply these techniques I seem to hear them clearer.
Wow, thank you for these great suggestions. On the Utah Neuro Rehabilitation TH-cam channel we have a couple more videos on APD: Treating auditory processing disorder and Auditory processing disorder treatments.
It wasn’t until this year, my Junior year of high school, that I finally heard of ADP. I had fluid in my ears since I was born, and it wasn’t until I was 5 that it was finally removed. I lived normally since then, but now that school is more demanding, my friends are growing their social lives, and I’m managing a part time job at Chick-fil-A, it’s become paramount to be able to listen to what other people say, and to respond appropriately. Especially on the social aspect, I’ve struggled a lot, mostly because I’m lost on how to respond. Thank goodness I found out about this and I’m able to fix this struggle I’ve been facing for years now.
I am glad to hear that you are to improve your struggles.
Could you say how you were able to fix it?
I've been brought to the doctors for my hearing multiple times by my mom as a kid because in her words "I always ask what someone says alot" and my doctors have come up with nothing. Maybe the occasional cleaning of my ears but nothing has improved after that.
I've always been extremely insecure about this because people get so annoyed even after being asked to repeat themselves once.
I started to realize there was a problem when I would go out with friends ordering food and they can hear PERFECTLY what the waiter/cashier said dispite all the sounds of people and beeping machines.
I quit my first job as a Parsle clerk because I just couldn't decode what someone was telling me over the walkie-talkie. My partners could hear it just fine and I would always ask them to respond to it for me since I just didn't know what they said and asking them to repeat it over the radio didn't make much of a difference.
I get so frustrated with myself because I can hear fine, but people don't understand why I can't process speech. "You're so deaf" "They've had to repeat themselves so many times" "I don't get why you don't listen" "is none of what I'm saying interesting to you?"
It's so so humiliating.
I am sorry to hear of your struggles. There are several more videos on the Utah Neuro Rehabilitation TH-cam channel on things that can help APD.
I can pretty much check every box on the symptoms for this disorder. Is it worth getting tested and diagnosed? I’m 17 and feel like it’s worse now than when I was younger. In most of my classes I have good grades because my program is mostly based on self-learning the material, however, in French or English when we have mandatory listening quizzes I nearly fail them every time despite me being fluent in both languages.
It might be worth getting tested and diagnosed. Then you can get suggestions for help. Check out a couple of other videos on Utah Neuro Rehabilitation: Treating Auditory Processing Disorders and Auditory Processing Disorders Treatments. They may give you some suggestions.
I’ve struggled with APD my whole life and it sucks, i’ve struggled so much in school and stuff and it’s such a rare disorder like why me
Yes, it is a struggle and make life more difficult. If you want some suggestions for how to deal with it, there are another couple of videos on the Utah Neuro Rehabilitation channel: Auditory processing treatments and Treating auditory processing disorder.
Have always had this and can guarantee those that do most surly have dyslexia which also effects reading numbers as well as words. The faster you try to read or chunk information seems to just scramble comprehension. Trying to follow verbal instructions from supervisors or managers is frustrating because you know you will need to ask them to repeat themselves which just makes you feel and appear stupid. I'm 62 and only recently have finally understood what has impacted by learning and career opportunities my whole life. Kind of gut wrenching.
Sounds really gut wrenching. Thank you for sharing.
I also have it , could it also cause memory problems as well
With auditory processing disorder, often information does not get into memory storage. So you cannot remember it because it was not processed and stored in the first place.
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Thank you so much
maria pascarelli that happens to me
I think I might also have APD . If someone tells me instructions , I can hear the words , but I cant comprehend meaning Its like have to listen again to put one and one together
Yes. But do you have other neurological conditions ? Most people with APD do.
Got this after a head injury… it’s so grossly misunderstood that I often give up telling people or explaining. The ironic thing is that I’m at Medical school with doctors running the department!!
Is is so misunderstood! Brain injury is also misunderstood, even in the medical system.
I sense that the audiologist had a lot of experience speaking with people who have CAPD, bc every time she spoke she spoke to the camera instead of the interviewer. Idk about others, but I learned to read lips to help combat my hearing impairment.
I appreciate that the presenters were speaking slowly and enunciating in this video, but as someone who relies on captions due to what I think is APD, why aren't there captions available for this video?
That is a really good idea and we will do this in the future. Thank you!
@@UtahNeuroRehabilitation Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
I have temporal auditory processing disorder, I am very well aware of what it is caused by. My son inherited from me. Mine is the result from unrecognised genetics, but also the main one is military. Having an inner explosion going off inside your ears like a bomb, and having sensory deafness, but also caused brain damage along with central nervous system damage and wiping out your internal systems, not to mention the abiity to cope with stress now non existant. Also processing slowly, and being in a slower area helps, but that processing speed required is barely moving, its stillness. Its slow and its thorough. It causes an absolute headache, problems and sensory overload, Silence is a relief, along with quiet and omg peace. I have been learning to deal with mine and my son's who is an adult now for a long time...its hard because it affects us differently, like opposites, and it can shut us down, so it can be dangerous....like shut your respiratory system down, or your digestive system, or your bowels, or etc. Then having to deal with, oh there is nothing you can do about it, or recommendations given that are exhausting, and we are disabled so its like you remember we are disabled? I am glad that you are making people aware about it, for me, its accepting and dealing with it and going ok there is disorder so lets reorder. Is it possible to restore functionality to dysfunctional and damage to the temporal auditory? so the very least you have a better processing, and also for the headache to go. It has increased my learning and understanding I was born gifted with.There has been benefits to having it along with awfulness....I think its how you deal with it. Problem is my gp now realises that it was a valuable learning for the medical, specialists....because we are very aware of it, and know what is going on inside of us, but the medical and others at the time, put it into the too hard basket. So I valued learaning about it, my son learnt about what he has and the intelligence grew as it is our classroom and hopefully now rehab....and there is nature where I am.
I’m probably on the spectrum & have ADD. I’d be busy staring at my fingers, feet, floor, room & just looking off during a convo like this. I don’t make perfect eye contact as I feel that’s more of a normal behavior to be looking around. It’s how I concentrate & stay focused or I’d get super distracted by the person I’m talking to. You both STARE at each other when talking & it honestly creeps me out. Can you explain why this bothers me? I am also high sensory. 😆
I am not sure why it bothers you. Perhaps it is because it would be overstimulating to you to do the same. You have a lot of self awareness.
@@UtahNeuroRehabilitation Thank you so much for your explanation! That makes perfect sense. I never thought I’d still be struggling w/ SPD & ADD at my age.
It’s sensory overload looking into people’s eyes hurt my eyes.
Thank you for this information. However, there is not one mention of adults with this condition. What about someone who has spent their entire life with this condition and it went undiagnosed. It's very frustration that adults are never addressed. I've spent my entire life using the term "I don't understand". It's like being in a foreign country and not speaking the language. And I can't not follow directions if it's goes beyond two steps. I developed a debilitating driving phobia because I can't process driving directions....road signs....or verbal directions. I can only drive locally. I wish there were resources for adults. I only see help for children. Very frustrating!!!
The same principles that apply to children also apply to adults. There are other videos on the Utah Neuro Rehabilitation TH-cam channel on treating apd. You can also email me to discuss: nancy@wasatchapd.com
im 48 years old and realise i probably have add. i struggle massively with focus etc.. then i also come across your video and so much of this also makes sense to me. i my wife and her relatives can sometimes talk in monotone with rushed sentences.. its like i cant register a word of it! also, in crows, bars etc.. with lots of noise around me and just cannot hear people, that the friend next to me can, everything around me is just as lou i just cant comprehend. . i mean no offence to this at all, but the lady on the right, when she first started talking, her words seemed overly stretched out and it sent me ehad spinning losing complete focus... i wonder if i have apd!
The frustration of looking straight in their eyes as they speak and nothing goes into your head, is so discouraging. Like why am I so bad. Why can't I focus? I went to get my hearing check and lie saying I have trouble hearing just to get tested and come back with perfect hearing. Long story short, once stop taking my pills for my ADHD and after a bit over a week I lost the ability to read. That was the craziest experience and I took my pills nearly everyday since i was 6 and never experienced something like this before.
I can relate...looking into someone's eyes and not hearing anything. I've spent my entire life feeling stupid. It has certainly shaped my entire life.
Do children change subjects a lot? & how do i keep on target? Without having that melt down... I myself have a hard time explaining things & have a hard time comprehending but i really want to help & not sure how & the school does not seem much help. How do i get help?
Watch the video "Treating Auditory Processing Disorder" on the Utah Neuro Rehabilitation channel. See if this answers your question. If not, get back to us. Thanks
Does anybody get complaint s that they speak too loudly, often times friends and family say I talk to loud even tho I feel I'm talking normal. To get to the point, is talking loudly related to Auditory Processing Disorder?
Always either too loud or too quiet
Armando Bolanos same here
Hakuna Marada people say I’m really quiet and can’t hear me
People have always told me I talk too quiet but I think Im speaking at the same level I always do. Its been really difficult especially now in my marriage 😔
This was something I was glad to figure out because I honestly just thought I was dumb, because I do not at all have trouble hearing but I always mishear things. ADP and my ADHD just go hand in hand I think, just a very scatter brained mind
I've always had problems with certain voices and words. I thought it was strange that I did well with Spanish language in school, but I think that might be because everything was over enunciated.
Hello. I have all of these symptoms but I was wondering if feeling panicked when there are too many noises or loud noises is part of this disorder as well?
Absolutely. Loud or noisy environments can be really overwhelming if you have APD.
As a child, I remember how it felt like I was tortured in class with this disorder. Labeled slow with my 1st grade teacher. In the 60s I was diagnosed with mirror reading that is called dyslexia by a eye doctor. Schools didn't recognize dyslexia then. Later would find out that with dyslexia disorder a person can have auditory processing problems spelling problems. When the teacher would speak, I often did not understand no matter how hard I tried. I needed repeating. I wouldn't ask because of embarrassment. I thought I was dumb. Wasn't till I had myself tested at a college that I found out I had a auditory disorder and how my dyslexia played a strong roll.
I'm sorry you had to go through so much struggle. We really need to increase understanding of these conditions so that people do not grow up thinking they are stupid.
@@UtahNeuroRehabilitation Thank you yes, so many smart children are struggling and need help.
I got diagnosed with autism and ADHD witch just made school harder) The teachers just didn't know how to handle me, or what to do with me. They were always super rude to me, aswell. So when I was like 9 or 10, my mum decided to homeschool me instead. I actually ended up learning a lot more in homeschooling than normal school.
Thanks for sharing this.
I have adp I learned that my trauma played a huge role in being present in the moment when you find peace and comfort and safety things become more clear when I breathe and slow down I can take in information like no one’s business there’s no magic pill if it works you wouldn’t need a refill.
I’ve been diagnosed with this as a kid and yeah it’s really difficult to listen most the time, like I miss hear things so much, or confuse it for another word most the time or confuse the sentence whole
I'm odd in that I was a very early reader despite not being able to process spoken words well. That could be one reason why I wasn't diagnosed.
In my situation I was very good at reading and struggled with spelling. In 7th grade I was able to take normal reading class but still required special ed classes for writing. Everyone is different reading the comment section.
How do you differentiate between APD and ADHD? Something I deal with.
All I know is that I can't follow instructions for the life of me, not via audio or if it's written down on paper, I need to be shown how it's done and then I know how to do it. I can read just fine, I can follow conversations just fine(I think). But maybe this is not enough to say I have this condition? The one about not being able to filter out sounds in a loud classroom is very accurate for me. Like especialy in highschool I was barely getting any work done during class (cuz my class just wouldn't STFU EVER) so I did most of the work when I came home to not fail that class...
You can have some, but not all of the symptoms.
I think this article will be helpful to you to know more about Auditory Processing Disorder 👉 myoccu.blogspot.com/2020/05/who-are-children-behavior-of-school.html
Who made that intro beat??? It was kinda fire doe
I can hear very well but I don't know where the sound comes from. Is this CAPD ? I have no other symptom. I read well but I am slow processing information. I hate noise. Normally, I isolate myself from noisy places or people. It infuriates me.... I only took notice of this condition some 15 years ago. It wasn't like this when I was younger. I am 66 years old now.
Wow this always sounded like something I've struggled with my entire life! I was Diagnosed with a Language Disability and I'm pretty sure I have APD as well as my hearing is fine. But even when I was little til now, with loud environments with tvs, multiple ppl talking, it's hard to figure out what someone is saying and having to ask multiple times and ppl get frustrated it makes me upset...
It is very frustrating. There are two more videos on the Utah Neuro Rehabilitation TH-cam channel for ways to help: Treating Auditory Processing Disorder and Auditory Processing Disorder Treatments.
So how many types of auditory processing disorders are there ?
There are four to six types depending on which classification system you use.
Can I still be a pilot? Or should I give up?
is that when you hear stuff and dont process it right away? example, more often than not i'll have someone say something, ill ask "huh?" and before they can answer in my head a hypothetical echo of what they said will sound and I will have "heard them the first time" before they can repeat themselfs
What is the treatment ma'am
Check out two videos on the Utah Neuro Rehabilitation youtube channel:
Auditory processing disorder treatments and Treating auditory processing disorder.
Me: suspects I have APD and watches this video to find out
Also Me: originally misheard the part where she says "audiologist" as "idealogist" before I realized it doesn't make sense in context.
I think this article will helpful to you to know more about Auditory Processing Disorder 👉 myoccu.blogspot.com/2020/05/who-are-children-behavior-of-school.html
I think I struggle with this it makes me feel stupid most times I have struggled where when people talk to me I feel like they are saying things that sounds like what they are saying..but heard them wrong ..I also feel like I struggle with concentrating and ADHD
I just want to be able to memorize song lyrics :((
Wait this is a symptom? Cuz like i can memorise song lyrics or could a few years back but now I can just remember a few sentences after listening to it for like 10-20 times and other people around me are like singing the whole song almost just listening to it like 5 times
Idk for sure that I have this but for me I literally can't hear anyone in a noisy pub and it's really embarassing and awful because they know I am not deaf and think I'm just being difficult or not paying attention.
This might be me. I cannot have a conversation if the TV is on even turned down low. And then people think I'm ignoring them because I'm too easily distracted by the other noise. Or I keep asking them to repeat themselves so they get frustrated and don't want to continue :(
I also have MS. An neurological autoimmune disease that affects your brain and spinal cord.
There are several other videos on this channel on auditory processing disorder that might give some tips to help. Yes, I am familiar with MS.
I suspect it can also be a side effect of certain medications. Statins being one of them.
What about having trouble putting thoughts into words. Explaining your emotions for example. Is it connected?
It could be, but there are also other reasons for these issues.
I struggle to hear people, but I was tested and they said my hearing is better than normal. It felt like I was just imagining it. Now I’m wondering if I have APD, but I don’t want to go and then they say I don’t have that either. Like please I just want to hear people.
It might be helpful to get tested for this. If you do have it, there are things that might help.
Would've been really nice if the title or the text information below the video would've specified that this is primarily focusing on children.
The concepts are the same for kids and adults. There are two more videos on the Utah Neuro Rehabilitation Channel on APD: Treating Auditory Processing Disorder and Auditory Processing Disorder Treatments.
Forgot to mention that we can only understand a single person at a time. If I have more than 1 person talking to me I only parts and pieces from each of them.
Cant believe I took 17 years to know what i had that was up with me, I would always read things in tests or hear things in videos then have repeat tit to myself tons of times until I processed what I was hearing or processed what I was reading
I wonder if I have this.. I struggle in class because when my teachers give instructions (like fore example, if they assigned something on our school computers) I would end up just starting at the screen completely confused. I heard what the teachers ask me to do but it doesn’t click in my brain.
You certainly could have this.
For me it’s like having to translate constantly. There’s a middle man between sound in my ears & my brain actually soaking it up. I’m hearing you talking but there’s an extra step before I understand