It is often difficult to understand what it may be like for people with auditory processing disorders (APD) to deal with information they receive through their auditory systems. Regardless of how you approach auditory processing, regardless of what is your beliefs and understanding of APD, there are certain basic common factors on which most specialists in the field of auditory processing agree. These factors often relate to processing problems such as deficits related to understanding speech in the presence of competing auditory signals (also referred to as auditory figure-ground, speech-in-noise, competing listening conditions), auditory decoding problems, auditory temporal (related to time) processing deficits, auditory memory difficulties, and auditory integration problems. Therefore, this simulation will focus on these areas.
The purpose of this simulation is to compare processing of altered visual stimuli (words, letters, commas and spaces in the typing) as comparisons to processing of auditory messages. The letters represent the sounds of speech also called phonemes. In some cases, the letters that make the sounds of speech will be used rather than the letters used to spell the words. For example, in the word "thing," the letter "i," the vowel, actually makes the sound of /ee/. Thus, to spell the word thing to represent the phonemes, for this simulation, the word would be spelled using slashes "/" and the letters would represe