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Listening: A person with listening difficulties may include the following:
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Deaf or hard of hearing
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Difficulty processing spoken language
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Difficulty remembering spoken langyage
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Processing deficits related to listening include:
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Auditory memory - Difficulty remembering what was heard, difficulty remembering important items from a lecture. Spells poorly.
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Auditory discrimination - Often seems to misunderstand. Trouble telling differences between similar sounds or words-seventeen for seventy. Seems to hear but not to listen.
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Auditory Figure Ground - Trouble hearing sounds over background noises.
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Last Modified on July 25, 2019