Difficulty organizing or expressing thoughts.Asking often for information or directions to be repeated.Difficulty distinguishing sounds in general.Difficulty concentrating if there are too many distracting sounds in the background.Consistently omitting sounds when speaking or saying common words incorrectly.Consistent difficulty understanding letter sounds or how sounds go together to form words. In other words, trouble reading.This could be anything from difficulty remembering a few simple directions to forgetting math facts to an inability to remember the characters of a story that’s just been read aloud. How do I know if we need to practice this cognitive skill? Some signs of auditory attention or auditory processing problems might include: It’s important, then, that at least some of your brain training games practice the cognitive skill of memory, too. When listening, it’s often very important to remember one or more things for short or long periods of time. Preferably, processing the auditory information at an acceptable speed. It’s also the ability to sustain or focus on auditory information for periods of time AND shift focus when necessary.Īnd, auditory processing is the ability to take in and understand information you hear. So, auditory attention is the ability to take in important auditory information while filtering out the rest. It also includes the speed at which you’re able to take in and understand the information. The word processing refers to the ability to take in and understand information. There are times when all of these skills are necessary at once! Or, you might need flexible attention – switching focus from one thing to another smoothly. You might need divided attention – focusing on more than one thing at a time. You might need sustained attention – staying focused for a period of time. The word attention refers to the ability to stay focused on a particular thing. I’ll remind you quickly about one of the things I mentioned in the visual attention and visual processing article: What are auditory attention and auditory processing?
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