Auditory Processing Explained: Beyond Just Hearing Perfectly #shorts

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]I liken it to going to a foreign country where you don't speak the language. You hear everybody talking around you, but it doesn't mean that it makes sense. Um, we've had students with really significant cases say, "Dr. Lock, my my teacher in class sounds like this." W, you know, it just it doesn't make sense to them. So, there's that understanding piece, but then there's also that um filtering component. Our auditory system also has to suppress and prioritize sounds. constantly in our environment.

[00:00:31]It it an efficient system knows what's important to listen to and what's not important to listen to. And so it's constantly filtering out lights, fans, clocks, um flies in the classroom, typing on keyboards so that we don't have to do that. Um for the students and adults that we see, their system doesn't filter as efficiently. It brings all the sounds to them and then the responsibility to try to sort out, you know, what's important to listen to, what's important to focus on rests on their shoulders and that's exhausting for them. Their brain just gets so overloaded and overstimulated. So the individuals that we see, it's that not the hearing part, they're hearing just fine. They've they've got excellent hearing. A lot of times our students get told your hearing is perfect. you just need to try a little bit harder without that individual realizing, well, there's two other really important components that that auditory system has to do, and it's important we check that out as well.

[00:01:31]>> And that's interesting. You talk about the perfect hearing.