Learning problems and problems associated with attention regardless of what they are called can be understood, treated, and eliminated. The first step in understanding such problems is to look at them in proper perspective. Such problems are the reflection of neurological inefficiencies. We all have inefficiencies. Virtually every child who is evaluated is found to have inefficiencies simply because we all have them.
Neurological inefficiencies effect how our brains receive, process, store and utilize information.
A specific inefficiency effects one or more of these processes. Identification of the specific inefficiency effecting the child begins with looking at what the child's brain is receiving. The major problems effecting hearing include hearing losses, frequency losses or inconsistent hearing resulting from fluid or pressure within the ears. As with visual problems, problems with hearing are treatable if identified. We relate processing to short-term memory as reflected in visual and auditory digit spans.