Auditory processing disability

Auditory processing disabilities do not affect what is heard, but how it is interpreted or processed by the brain. This can interfere with speech and language acquisition and can affect all areas of learning, especially reading and spelling.²⁷ People with this disability usually present with difficulty:

• Remembering and making sense of auditory information such as words, letters, and sounds.
• Understanding nuances of speech.
• Recognizing differences in tone of speech.
• Processing a series of oral instructions.²⁸
• Putting sounds together to form words.²⁹

Organizational and information storage and retrieval disability

Individuals have difficulty managing time and space and ordering their day-to-day activities. They also show difficulties with receiving, integrating, remembering and expressing information.³⁰ People with this disability usually present with difficulty:

• Processing information quickly.
• Putting meaning to what is heard by linking it with known information that is similar.
• Retrieving or finding previously stored information.
• Making sense of a new task or skill.
• Performing under stress.
• Organizing.
• Making sense of time. They may be early or late and often can't meet a deadline.³¹