Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast series by Attitude Magazine.

My name is Annie Rogers and on behalf of the Attitude team, I'm so pleased to welcome

you to today's ADHD Experts Presentation titled, What Did You Say?

Differenciating Auditory Processing Disorder from ADHD in children.

Auditory Processing Disorder and ADHD are distinct conditions.

They just happen to share some very similar signs and traits from following directions

to missing social cues to underperforming in school.

A child with APD has normal hearing, but they may miss a lot of the details of what's being said.

Especially in a noisy or distracting environment.

They may have troubled, distinguishing, similar sounding words, which can result in reading

and spelling challenges that might look a lot like dyslexia or dysgraphia or other learning disabilities.

So it's really critical that professionals take the adequate time to accurately evaluate

for and diagnose APD. It's really the most important step to treating the disorder.

So leading our presentation on this really important topic today of Auditory Processing Disorder

is Beverly Holden-Johns. Beverly is an author and learning and behavior consultant.

She has more than 30 years of experience in public schools working with students with learning

disabilities and emotional behavioral disorders. She was also a professional fellow at McMurray College.

She's the author or co-author of 23 books in this field of special education,

including the seminal book, Learning Disabilities and Related Mile Disabilities.

She currently serves on the board of directors of the Learning Disabilities Association of America

and is the president of the Learning Disabilities Association of Illinois.

Before I hand over the microphone to Beverly, I have just a few housekeeping items to get

...