Listening: A person with listening difficulties may include the following:
Deaf or hard of hearing
Difficulty processing spoken language
Difficulty remembering spoken langyage
Processing deficits related to listening include:
Auditory memory - Difficulty remembering what was heard, difficulty remembering important items from a lecture. Spells poorly.
Auditory discrimination - Often seems to misunderstand. Trouble telling differences between similar sounds or words-seventeen for seventy. Seems to hear but not to listen.
Auditory Figure Ground - Trouble hearing sounds over background noises.
