RE: Verbal auditory agnosia

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OMara@... writes.

Subject: Verbal Auditory Agnosia (VAA)

This diagnostic or descriptive term was mentioned in the newsletter

of

the Madison, WI. chapter of the ASA. The newsletter cites the Spring 2001

publication, Naarative.

Is any one aware of this possible subset of the autism spectrum

disorders?

, The first Developmental Pediatrician who evaluated my Evy felt he

might have verbal auditory agnosia. He didn't seem to recognize that a

human voice was anymore significant than the hum of a dishwasher. Of

course, with proper education, he is now completely expressive with a few

lingering pragmatic deficits. In hindsight, I feel that the agnosia was a

reflection of his attention or sensory impairment. He didn't understand

which auditory cues in his environment were relevant. He used to attend to

faraway auditory stimuli--TV's in another room, etc, rather than me talking

right in front of his face. He had the same difficulty with selecting

appropriate visual input (Attending to background of videos, rather than the

characters in the foreground). ABA and particularly, VB have corrected

that.

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