Hey, it's Debbie. Today I'm sharing a playback Friday episode. It's a powerful conversation

from deep in the Tilt Parenting Podcast archives. Unless you're a long-time listener, you

likely haven't heard this one yet. And even if you have, I bet you'll get something completely

different from it this time around. They're seen as quote special ed kids and therefore have a stigma associated with it.

And then it becomes very demoralizing to many of these youngsters.

And we find kids with low self-esteem feeling badly, feeling like they're something they're broken,

something is wrong with them.

It's not unusual that I've seen a child turn to his mother and cry and say,

I know something's wrong with me.

Why do you have to always show me or why do I have to be different?

Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring,

informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host Debbie Reber,

and this week I am talking with Dr. Donna Geffner, a speech-language pathologist and audiologist

and renowned expert on audio processing disorder.

Dr. Geffner is the author of five books and over 300 publications on auditory processing disorders,

ADHD, and language disorders in children. In almost 200 episodes of the podcast, this is the first

time I'm covering APD. And Dr. Gepner, as a former

president of the American Speech Language Hearing Association, is a fountain of clinical

information and research. In our conversation, we talk about what audio processing disorder is,

how to recognize that in kids, why it's often

misdiagnosed, as well as the best support and accommodation practices for school and at home.

This is a fascinating jam-packed conversation with one of the world's top voices on APD.

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