We offer a variety of therapies for children with auditory processing disorders.

Computer-Based Therapies

Fast ForWord (TM) is a group of computer-based treatment programs which were developed by the Scientific Learning Corporation for children and adults with language processing and reading difficulties. These programs, intensively target the auditory, language learning and reading skills widely recognized as keys to all learning. They are unique in that they use acoustically modified sounds in exercises that adapt and advance in difficulty, along with the child's or adult's increasing proficiency. Skills addressed include the following:

• Phonological awareness
• Working memory
• Syntax and grammar
• Sustained and focused attention
• Vocabulary
• Sequencing
• Language comprehension
• Processing speed
• Following directions

Earobics (TM) is a computer-based program that directly addresses the phonological awareness skills required for the development of reading. It is used in conjunction with conventional therapeutic methods to train and reinforce the development of those skills.

Listening Therapies

Auditory Integration Training (AIT) is a therapy for children with certain identified auditory function problems including hypersensitivity to sound, auditory attention problems, and auditory processing disorders. These disorders may present themselves alone or associated with autism, pervasive developmental disorder, attention deficit disorder, multisystem developmental disorder, regulatory disorders, auditory processing disorder, or auditory attention problems. The goal of the therapy is to reduce auditory symptoms that may be interfering with a child's auditory learning.

The Listening Program is a home based sound stimulation auditory training method consisting of eight specially developed compact discs designed to be used over an eight week period. The purpose of the design is to enhance listening skills, remediate auditory perceptual distortions and improve auditory tonal processing.

Conventional Language Therapy is employed to stimulate development of the phonological awareness skills that are critical for reading. The clinician may employ a variety of structured and play activities to develop such skills as rhyming, ability to isolate individual sounds in words, and sound blending. As phonological awareness skills improve, reading difficulties are directly addressed using a multi-sensory Orton-Gillingham Approach. This method employs a systematic and hierarchical approach that teaches children phonics. Its multi-sensory component simultaneously trains visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities.