Auditory Training is listening therapy and its purpose is to help correct listening errors when listening to speech, especially in background noise. Our office is one of the few in the state that conducts specialized auditory training therapy. 

Most commercially available programs provide practice related to general auditory processing skills, whereas our auditory training treatment targets the specific areas of weakness identified with APD pre-testing. This program relies on the anatomy and physiology of the central auditory nervous system regions. We identify the patient’s specific deficits which are associated with specific communication difficulties.

For a trained doctor of audiology (Au.D.) an Auditory Processing Disorder is not very difficult to identify, classify, or even to remediate. It is estimated that 20 percent of the general population has APD. We've found that many of our patients who have a diagnosed hearing loss are also struggling with difficulties with speech understanding and our auditory training therapy program can be tailored to their special hearing needs. The therapy associated with this model works directly on those areas found to be related to the diagnosed APD categories. Therefore, it is a deficit specific therapy, which allows extensive training in the patient’s weak areas. Most commercially available programs only provide practice related to general auditory processing skills. Working one-to-one with a professional on auditory training can develop the skills and strategies specific to the patient’s deficit.