There are many forms of learning that exist and you have to find the one that best suits the person who must learn. People forget an important form of learning that we can use and do not give importance to: auditory perceptual learning.
Perception is the ability to see, hear or become aware of something through the senses. It is the way we consider, understand and interpret information. When said 'auditory' it is related to the sense of hearing, but auditory processing / perception involves hearing, discrimination, assigning meaning and interpreting words, phrases, sentences and speech.
Auditory processing deficits
Auditory processing deficits underlie reading, writing, and spelling difficulties and will affect all language-based learning and overall classroom performance; for example, following directions or interpreting spoken language in a meaningful way and retaining information presented audibly. At home you can also find serious problems for children to understand instructions or orders.
Difficulties interpreting questions as they increase in length and complexity or inappropriate or incorrect answers suggest auditory processing problems. In this sense, you can ask your child something and have him answer a phrase that has little to do with the question you asked him. Some parents first think that it may be an attention problem, But when the problem occurs many times, then they begin to appreciate that it is more of an auditory problem.
Monitor your child's listening behavior
Parents need to be attentive to their children's possible hearing problems in order to act as soon as possible. Only in this way will they be able to receive the necessary attention so that their learning is not impaired.
Poor auditory vigilance, which is essentially the ability of a listener to remain attentive to auditory stimulation for a period, also suggests weaknesses. Written language difficulties include poor correspondence between the grapheme and the phoneme (letter sound), omissions of words or poor sentence construction, as the child forgot to write the desired message. This happens because it is difficult for them to identify the letters or words with their corresponding sound, so there may be problems when writing it.
Auditory processing involves memory skills
People have the ability to take the information received orally, process the information, store it in their mind and then remember what they have heard. All this implies different skills that must be developed, such as focusing attention on what is heard, listening, processing information, storing it, remembering it and then applying it. All of this is very important for the academic and personal success of children around the world, and also of anyone who needs to learn (considering that we all learn something new every day).
Working memory requires the simultaneous storage and processing of information and has been identified as the translator between sensory input and long-term memory. Children with poor working memory generally have poorer academic progress.
Auditory discrimination is the ability to recognize differences in phonemes (the smallest unit of sounds in a language), including the ability to identify words and sounds that are similar and those that are different.
Beware of hearing impaired discrimination
When a person has poor discrimination it will result in errors in writing, misinterpretation of oral information, confusion, and a constant need for repetition. It is necessary to evaluate some parts of the hearing to know that everything is going correctly in learning.
Assess hearing ability
In order to evaluate the hearing capacity of a child, the way in which he understands speech is worked on even when noise is present. This is vital as a child must be able to tune in to a teacher's voice when there is background noise (such as when peers are talking). This way, children will have enough capacity to be able to hear a voice even when there is background noise.
The auditory closure
Hearing closure is the ability to use intrinsic and extrinsic redundancy to fill in missing or distorted parts of the auditory signal and acknowledge the whole message. This involves taking small pieces of auditory information and building a whole.
Listening comprehension
Listening comprehension explores the child's ability to reason, understand, and conceptualize verbal information. Children with poor verbal memory often recall irrelevant details and miss important information that is present.
Auditory reasoning skills
Auditory reasoning skills reflect higher order linguistic processing and are related to understanding jokes, puzzles, inferences, logical conclusions, and abstractions.
Common causes of difficulties acquiring literacy skills
The most common cause of difficulties in acquiring early word reading skills is weakness in the ability to process the phonological characteristics of language resulting in auditory analysis (segmentation) and synthesis difficulties (combining).
Deficits in the phonological area of language development are often measured with non-reading tasks that assess phonemic awareness. The ability to identify, think, and manipulate individual sounds in words allows children to be identified at risk of reading problems even before reading begins, as phonemic awareness has been shown to be directly related to the growth of early reading skills.
If a child cannot perceive contrasts in phonemes and cannot conceptualize the identity of phonemes in syllables and words, they depend on memory when they learn to read and spell. This restricts reading and spelling progress and does not allow accurate comparison between spoken and written word units.
Avoid auditory processing problems
To avoid problems, be careful with distractions, that there is enough light in front of the speaker, speak in turns, speak clearly, explain the new vocabulary, give concrete examples, divide the instructions into parts, maintain eye contact, ask if you have understood everything, etc.