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If you’ve read our blog articles on Auditory and Visual Processing Disorders, you already know that both visual and auditory skills play an important role in a child’s educational advancement. But there’s another important layer to keep in mind. Each of these skills alone isn’t enough to get your child to where they want to…

As we’ve covered in other posts, an audio processing disorder (APD) is a challenge in which a child struggles to understand sounds and information heard orally with ordinary levels of effort and in a healthy manner. For more detailed info, read our blog on “What Is an Auditory Processing Disorder?” These challenges can come in…

An auditory processing disorder can pose a challenge for many children as it complicates their ability to grow in various areas of life—from academics, to play, to daily living skills. The good news is that there are many things you can do as a parent to help your child improve their abilities and overcome these…

Many different types of challenges might be considered visual processing disorders. If your child experiences difficulties during any part of the process between the eyes taking in a visual image and the brain interpreting and understanding what it has just observed, their challenges may fall into the category of a visual processing disorder, meaning they…

Generally speaking, a challenge may be diagnosed as an auditory processing disorder (APD) when it involves a struggle with reacting to sound-based stimuli in healthy or desired manners. There are a broad range of challenges that could constitute an auditory processing disorder. If your child has difficulty in understanding/coping with sounds and hearing, it could…

When struggling academically due to an auditory or visual processing disorder, test-taking can pose uniquely difficult challenges.   While tests are necessary for measuring grasp of a subject, and their results can impact a child’s academic future, they unfortunately rely on a set of arbitrary conditions in order to do so—conditions which don’t necessarily reflect each…