APD Ottawa

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Zoey, a lovely PhD candidate in Audiology at the University of Ottawa, is looking for participants for a study in Auditory Processing Disorders. If your child is between 8-12 years old, has been identified with auditory skill deficits (APD), is right-handed and does not have a diagnosis of ADHD, please contact Zoey to participate in her study at the university. The child will receive a gift, a snack and $25 for their 2.5 to 3.5 hour participation.
Please reach out to Zoey at [email protected] for more details. Thanks for considering helping to advance our knowledge of APD!

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Auditory Processing Therapy (APD Therapy)

Goals of APD Therapy:
Enhance auditory processing for speech and sound comprehension.
Improve speech understanding in noisy environments.
Strengthen auditory skills: attention, memory, sequencing, discrimination.

Categories of Therapy Interventions:
Decoding Interventions:
Focus on recognizing and processing speech sounds.
Techniques: phonemic training, phonemic synthesis.
Tolerance Fading Memory Interventions:
Improve speech understanding in noise, auditory memory, sequencing.
Methods: speech-in-noise desensitization, short-term auditory memory.
Integration Interventions:
Enhance processing from both ears.
Techniques: dichotic listening, dichotic offset training.
Organization Interventions:
Improve language skills, executive functions.
Methods: cognitive rehab techniques, memory training, language organization.

Auditory Association - improving ability to understand if-then statements, part to whole, categories, inferences, similarities, and differences and WH questions. which includes auditory analogies, auditory absurdities.

Benefits of APD Therapy:

Improved focus, sequencing, and speech understanding.
Better academic performance and social communication.
Reduced frustration in challenging listening situations.

Improvement Areas and Procedural Aspects:

Develop attention, endurance, and self-regulation skills.
Enhance self-monitoring and self-advocacy.
Improve emotional regulation and stamina.
Foster connections between tasks and meaningful comprehension.
Key Points:
APD therapy aims to enhance auditory processing skills for speech comprehension.
It involves decoding, tolerance fading memory, integration, and organization interventions.
Techniques include phonemic training, speech-in-noise desensitization, and dichotic listening.
APD therapy provides benefits such as improved focus, academic performance, and social interaction.
It addresses broader skills like attention, self-regulation, and self-advocacy.

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Achieve Therapy Centre is pleased to offer joint therapy: speech-language pathology and occupational therapy for children with multiple needs. A child with developmental challenges may require remediation in several areas which can mean multiple appointments. During joint treatment, we are able to incorporate both the speech-language and occupational therapy needs into activities that can be replicated at home. We provide therapy in a dedicated sensory gym that includes suspended equipment which is a favorite among children, while providing many therapeutic opportunities. Joint interventions focus on the developmental needs of your child and will help strengthen his speech, language and motor skills. #developmentalchallenges #sensoryregulstion #emotionalregulation #languagedevelop

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Thanks Gael for these tips!

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