When children do not appear to be listening, parents often put it down to hearing problems. This blog is about understanding a condition called Auditory Processing Disorder. For those who have good hearing equipment, but have difficulty processing the information they hear.

She had been diagnosed with both dyslexia and dysgraphia and had undergone years of therapy. Convinced his daughter had outgrown her difficulties. However, when she began preparing for her GCSEs, she found she couldn't cope.

I was watching one of my students write the other day, and noticed countless problems with her seated position, her pencil grip, and how she was obscuring the sentence with her hand as she wrote. The effort was enormous on her part.