It has given her confidence in the class to ask questions, as she no longer is scared she may have heard things wrong. This has given her the confidence to sit away from friends who distract her. She has now had the system and has been using it in class for 3 months! And what a difference it has made! She has made huge leaps and bounds in her learning in the past 3 months- more than she probably has in the past 3 years! For the first time ever, she no longer needs to sit next to her friends to copy and ask questions on her school work- because she can hear the instructions clearly and without the distraction of background noise.

M went to SoundSkills and we made the choice to purchase the Remote Microphone Hearing Aid system, as once we learnt more about it we decided it was something that would benefit her learning. “My daughter was diagnosed with Auditory Processing Disorder a number of years ago, and when her learning started to stall we decided to investigate further. “I didn’t know people had different voices” he said. He listened to the teacher and teacher aide for a moment then remarked with surprise that they had different voices. One child with APD when first fitted with a remote microphone hearing aid system echoed the comment about lack of tonality in voices. But I am still exhausted from listening at the end of the work day and want to take my hearing aids off as soon as I get home.”

With both my hearing aids and RM system I can usually hear 100%. Someone says, 'Please raise your hand,' and you hear something like 'Please haze your plan. With my hearing aids I hear much better, losing only perhaps 25% of speech. People with auditory processing disorder (APD) have a hard time hearing small sound differences in words. For example, if the refrigerator switches on (a sound barely noticeable to most people) it seems to me to swamp anyone speaking. It’s very difficult to distinguish a voice from any other sound that is present. My directional hearing is poor and voices from behind are particularly difficult to hear. “Without my hearing aids or RM system, speech seems fast, fragmented and confusing. She describes her hearing experience as follows. Adults with APD, particularly if it arose in adulthood so they have prior experience of good hearing, can provide insight into the experience of hearing with APD.ĭr Louise Carroll QSO, JP, GDPPA, MPM, previously Chief Executive Officer of the National Foundation for Deaf and Hard of Hearing has Auditory Processing Disorder and uses hearing aids and a remote microphone (RM) system.

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