Product Details
- Author: Teri James Bellis
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- Binding: Paperback
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- Dewey Decimal Number: 305
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- EAN: 9780743428644
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- ISBN: 0743428641
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- Label: Atria
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- Manufacturer: Atria
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Number of Pages: 368
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- Product Group: Book
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- Publication Date: 2003-07-22
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- Publisher: Atria
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- Studio: Atria
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- Title: When the Brain Can't Hear : Unraveling the Mystery of Auditory Processing Disorder
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Product Description: In this landmark book, Dr. Teri James Bellis, one of the world's leading authorities on auditory processing disorder (APD), explains the nature of this devastating condition and provides insightful case studies that illustrate its effect on the lives of its sufferers. Millions of Americans struggle silently with APD. For many of them, holding a simple conversation can be next to impossible. As sound travels through an imperfect auditory pathway, words become jumbled, distorted, and unintelligible. As Dr. Bellis notes, the most profound impact of this highly specific impediment to auditory comprehension may be on the young. Facing a severely reduced ability to read, spell, comprehend, and communicate, children with APD are subject to anxiety, academic failure, and a damaged sense of self. Often, they are misdiagnosed. Discussing the latest and most promising clinical advances and treatment options, and providing a host of proven strategies for coping, Dr. Bellis takes much of the mystery out of APD. If you or anyone you know has difficulty comprehending spoken language, or if your child is struggling in school, this important book may have the answers you need.
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Customer Reviews
When the Brain Can't Hear
Great resource for parents: well--written easy to understand.
Great resource for Speech-Language Pathologists, too. Increasing numbers of children are being diagnosed with auditory processing disorders. It is often overlooked as a possible factor for poor performance in the classroom.
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WHEN THE BRAIN CAN'T HEAR: Unraveling the mystery of Auditory Processing Disorder
This is an OUTSTANDING book! My son was recently diagnosed with APD and I am doing everything I can to educate myself and learn how to best help him. I read this book cover to cover and found it very informational and presented in a practical, laymens' terms, manner. Chapters reference the disorder from early childhood to seniors with specific and valuable ways to help the individual with APD be successful. This book is a must for parents and teachers alike! I cannot praise this book enough! I'd give it 6 stars if I could!
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Must-read book for anyone with APD
Do yourself and your loved one a favor: become knowledgeable about the full implications of life with an auditory processing disorder. This well-written, approachable book is an outstanding reference for parents and teachers who must live with, work with, and advocate for, children and adults who struggle with receiving information from the world around them.
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BEST BOOK ON AUDITORY PROCESSING FOR PARENTS
I love this book as even the title has been very helpful in explaining the unique challenges that face my son to family and teachers.
Information about Auditory Processing Disorder is not wisely available. What is out there is brief, repetitive and minimal. I find lot of textbooks at a cost $100+/- but this is the only lay person book I have found that does the subject juctice.
Even Speech Lanuage Therapist do not have a good undertanding of this disorder unless they specialize in it. We wasted 9 months with a SPT-CCC who thought she know how to treat it - but really didn't. She just used a mixture of Language Processing techniques with poor results.
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK. I have read it several times and keep learning from it.
If you looking for information about Auditory Processing Disorder - someone you love must be suffering from it and for that I am so very sorry. As a mother of a son with it life is challeging for our whole family, but especially him. Finally, realizing what was "wrong" has helped a lot. I am relieved that he isn't incorrigible, but that there is a medical explaination.
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Excellent resource for parents!
I bought this book because my daughter was diagnosed as probably having Auditory Processing Disorder (she's too young to take the auditory tests yet). We were very worried that she might be on the autism spectrum but she is so social and doesn't do the stereotypical "lining up" or wheel spinning type play and she doesn't do any stims...it turns out that she has APD.
This book is a great resource. I've loaned it to her teachers at her regular preschool and her summer camp to help them understand how they can better help her. It's easy to read and understand and is SO helpful for understanding the nature of the problem. A definite buy for any parent whose child has APD or any teacher who suspects they have students with APD.
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