The following symptoms and complaints may indicate auditory processing and perception disorder (AVSD):
- Problems distinguishing sounds
- Problems with understanding auditory information
- Frequent questioning in conversation
- Difficulty remembering nursery rhymes, poems or multiple orders.
- Reading and writing problems
- Weak auditory memory
- Speech problems
- Easily distracted by ambient noise due to excessive sensitivity to sound
- Increased effort in listening and understanding during conversations with multiple people
- Increased sensitivity to volume
- Impaired sound localization (directional hearing)
- Restlessness
- Concentration problems
- Supposed lack of interest
- Behavioral problems such as frequent disruptions
Other indications
- In everyday life, patients with AVSD are found to have impaired attention to a sound source and focused listening.
- Affected children often have difficulty in school because school classes are often far too loud and noisy.
- A shortened auditory memory span sometimes leads to the fact that learned things are quickly forgotten.
- The appearance of a reading and writing disability is not uncommon in affected children.