Symptoms Of Auditory Processing Disorder

Difficulty With Vocabulary And Comprehension

Some individuals with auditory processing disorders will experience difficulty with vocabulary and comprehension. At its most basic level, an auditory processing disorder can make it hard for someone to remember things they hear. Another issue with comprehension when listening is some individuals with severe processing issues may lack auditory cohesion skills, which is the ability to combine understanding of sound, language, and logic to make inferences from conversations, figure out riddles, or understand verbal references. Struggles with discriminating between sounds make vocabulary and comprehension issues worse. A person might easily confuse similar sounding words, such as pat and bat. In a conversation, they might think a person said pat instead of bat, or they may recognize the word pat but think the person is talking about a bat. In general, patients with an auditory processing disorder tend to do better at written vocabulary and reading comprehension, but the challenges associated with this disorder can lead to all sorts of confusion about language.

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