Auditory Processing Disorder: Symptoms, Complaints, Signs

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.