Two of my kids are suspected of having auditory processing issues, but we have not gone for the full work-up yet (DD is almost 7, and DS5 is basically too young, especially considering his speech issues). They have a host of symptoms, and dd did have a brief work-up for it by an audiologist connected with the OT place. We will to go to a place up in Ft. Collins, CO
http://www.ablekidsfoundation.org/ for the official auditory eval if and when we need it. The only "treatment" they offer, however, is an ear filter, which I don't see as having any affect on the kind of auditory processing issues my kids seem to have. I will only bother to spend the money if I need the eval for a 504 plan for specific accommodations at school, which I'm hoping will not be necessary. The audiologist from that website is in the camp that does not believe in the effectiveness of listening therapy, and there IS research to back up that position, though in my view there are multiple kinds of auditory processing issues (see, e.g., "The Mislabeled Child" by Brock and Fernette Eide), and some people have benefited from listening therapy even though others have not. Anecdotes of improvement by listening therapy abound, and my kids are among them. They had listening therapy as part of the OT they both did for SPD last fall.
http://www.integratedlistening.com/programs/ ,
http://www.starcenter.us/services-treatment.html#otlt . I wouldn't say it's a cure, but it has helped my kids - the younger one's speech delay improved quite a lot and the older one can now sound out words, whereas she couldn't before.
On to the next step, I was considering something like Interactive Metronome therapy to increase processing speed, but if I'm going to pay good money to have them do a motion in time with a beat, I might as well do something more fun, like piano lessons. So that's on tap to start this summer - now we have to buy a piano, probably an ugly, second hand one that will look oh so attractive in the living room... But these two of my kids both have right brain strengths and left brain weaknesses, and I think the piano, forcing those sides to work together, could be really good for them.
I probably have more to say about listening therapy if that's something you'd consider.
