What treatments are available for auditory processing difficulty?


  • Auditory trainers are electronic devices that allow a person to focus attention on a speaker and reduce the interference of background noise. They are often used in classrooms, where the teacher wears a microphone to transmit sound and the child wears a headset to receive the sound  (such as an FM system). Children who wear hearing aids can use them in addition to the auditory trainer.
  • Exercises to improve language-building skills can increase the ability to learn new words and increase a child’s language base.
  • Auditory integration training may be promoted by practitioners as a way to retrain the auditory system and decrease hearing distortion. However, current research has not proven the beneﬁts of this treatment.