| Term | Definition |
| Auditory Processing | What we do with what we hear (Jack Katz); processing efficiency/effectiveness. -Listening (invisible activity), receiving, symbolizing, comprehending, interpreting, storing, and recalling auditory information |
| APD characteristics | Majority of the school day: child is required to listen to the teacher, understand what is said, remember it, and respond to it. Child may seem off task. Restless, forgetful, or impatient |
| APD Problems | Monaural discrimination, Understanding binaural acoustic information, |
| Monaural discrimination | Ability to perceive degraded words or words in competition (when both are presented to one ear), Temporal aspects of hearing or pattern recognition. |
| Binaural acoustic processing | Signal in one ear and noise in the other or dichotic information (different info in each ear) |
| Temporal aspects of hearing or pattern recognition | The ability to rapidly and accurately sequence auditory information |
| S.I.F.T.E.R. | Screening Instrument for Targeting Educational Risk
Cutoff levels used for referral purposes. Content areas include:
-Academics -Attention -Communication -Participation -Behavior |
| Audiological Testing Completed | Determine areas of auditory processing affected.
Buffalo Model (30 – 45 minutes): Phonemic Synthesis; Staggered Spondaic Word (SSW); Speech in Noise |
| SSW | First devised to test auditory function in individuals with brain lesions
Turned out to be sensitive to various components of auditory processing
Provides test indicators for each of the 4 CAP categories |
| Phonemic Synthesis | Discrimination of individual speech sounds Degree to which they are remembered How sounds are synthesized into words
Breaks words down into phonemes that are presented one at a time |
| Speech in Noise | Analyze a person’s ability to correctly repeat back words that are presented at +5 dB SNR in each ear
This score is compared to how that individual scored in quiet
Indicator of Tolerance Fading Memory |
| Models of (C)APD | 1.Buffalo Model 2.Bellis / Ferre Model 3.Spoken-Language Processing Model |
| Buffalo Model (Jack Katz, Nancy Stecker, and Gay Masters) | -Decoding -Tolerance Fading Memory -Integration -Organization |
