My dd was tested (4 years ago) using the Test of Auditory-Perceptual Skills-Revised among other tests that I cannot immediately locate. She earned a few extremely low scores, especially a 1st percentile on Auditory Word Discrimination. From her report;
�Her Scaled Score of 2 indicated she was unable to discriminate or hear differences in paired words even though she was able to identify pairs that contained identical words correctly. Restated, ------ perceived many unlike word pairs as being alike or the same.�
We also reported that she had difficulty with verbal multiple steps and other times seemed oblivious to speech.
This is not included with regular hearing tests. It was recommended that we seek an specialist audiologist and believed that she would require therapy of some sort, but we decided not to pursue it as it hasn�t been an issue academically yet (also our district is too �difficult�). We chose to allocate our time and money towards her/their strengths.
Hearing the difference between b and v is most difficult for many in our house, dh excluded. I thought it would be a big problem for language acquisition, but dd is breezing through Spanish and ds does really well in Latin.
