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Matt Skowronski is a 15 year old white male in the 8th grade attending Madison Junior High. Matt lives with his mom, dad, and older bother Aidan. His family attends a Christian church weekly, and his parents are involved in many social groups that support the community they live in. At the age of 9 years old, Matt was diagnosed with Auditory processing disorder. His grandpa has the same disorder, but his parents believe he first obtained it after falling on his ear in the middle of a basketball game. After he was injured in one of his games, months later he started to feel like he couldn't focus when he was being taught by his mom, and felt different overall. Matt's parents are both teachers placing them in the middle class, but his parent's both teach so that they can help guide Matt in the right direction. From Kindergarten until 5th grade, Matt was homeschooled by his Mom, who during that time took time off from teaching to support Matt and educate him. Matt loves playing sports and has leaned how to be social within many aspects of his everyday life. He loves to balance out his sports life with playing video games to allow him to think and have his alone time. Something Matt doesn't like to do is be a part of social groups in his school or take part in extracurricular activities outside of playing sports. Matt doesn't like being forced to hangout with his friends or to meet new people. He really enjoys prioritizing his day and doing things at his own pace. Matt really struggles in school since he started going to school and not being homeschooled. It was hard for him to transition to physically being in a school and learning differently then how he did with his mom. The one class he excels in overall is gym, but he also has many skills in his math which helps to boost his confidence. English,Science, and History are classes that he finds very challenging as he feels like he doesn't know as much as his other classmates, simply because he struggles to listen. Overall, Matt has a huge heart, but likes to keep it to himself when he can because of APD and how it makes him feel. But he tries to overcome what's given to him by staying active on the basketball court, and hanging out with the friends that treat him the way he likes to be treated.

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This student's name is Tyler Rupert, and he is 13 year old white male. Rupert has a mother and father that are both at the age of 40 that live with Tyler and his sister Emma. Tyler's family isn't very religious, but they are a catholic born family that is very involved with politics as well as the economy's current status.  His parents have always been well off and have earned enough money to place themselves in the middle to upper class range. His father works with the fire department working night and day with only a couple days off every week. Tyler's mother is a college professor at the university of Illinois which allows her to have the summer off to focus on helping Tyler with his education and guiding him in the right direction. Rupert also has a grandfather and grandmother that live a couple miles away from where his parents live. His grandfather was diagnosed with a disorder when he was young called Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) that was soon found to be genetic in the family. APD disorder is very similar to ADHD and ADD because of how hard it is for Tyler to listen and understand what his teachers and fellow students are trying to say. Overall, the disorder causes him to have a hard time understanding things because of how difficult it is for him to cancel out background noise. Tyler was diagnose with APD at the age of 10 years old after he had damaged his ear falling off of a swing set. Later on, Rupert and his parents discovered that the disorder was genetic within the family. Tyler is now in the 7th grade at Lincoln Junior High and has come a long way to learn how to be successful in school with having APD disorder. When he was first diagnosed with APD, Rupert was struggling to learn and never wanted to be socially active because of his inability to hear and listen. Since he was initially diagnose with APD his family has given him ways to learn effectively and work towards fighting the challenge that this disorder has given him. It's hard for Tyler to fully function in his school environment as he struggles to feel like he learns at the same speed as his other classmates. He wants to focus on himself and learning how to work with having Auditory Processing Disorder and be successful in school.  Tyler likes to isolate himself from his students at school and struggles to have confidence in his social abilities. One of his main hobbies is playing video games that don't require him to engage in conversation, games that are solo based to give him the space that he wants. He really enjoys going on walks by himself to exercise and enjoy the outdoors, he loves to hammock in the woods and draw pictures of his surroundings that stick out to him. Tyler really dislikes big social group meetings and doesn't really enjoy playing sports because he doesn't think he'd be capable of being good enough. He really likes to read and use the senses that work best for him to learn and read about interesting insightful stories. Rupert is a very motivated student that puts his heart into his work and does his best to learn effectively in his classrooms. He talks with his teachers and parents about what works best for him and how he can avoid letting APD hinder his education. There are certain classes that tyler excels in and some that he has a hard time with because of the way his teachers lead the classroom. He has an easy time in English because his teacher allows him to read a lot and do a lot of work on his own with little teaching. Rupert finds his history class to be more in the middle difficulty wise, because most of the work is reading and note taking based, but the teacher gives lectures about a topic every once in a while that is a little more challenging for Tyler. Math is the class that he has the hardest time in because of how much information the teacher gives and steps his teacher talks about leaves him confused and behind. Science is also very difficult for Tyler as he has a hard time understanding some of the terminology and has to ask his classmates questions all of the time. During a normal school day Tyler has his own group of friends that understand him and help him when he needs it. Rupert is a very kind individual and is friendly to all that he engages with in his school, he just likes to focus on himself and do what he feels makes him the happiest.

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Basic Principles of APD Management: All the World's a Stage: Environmental Modification at School. (n.d.). Retrieved September 21, 2020, from http://www.ldonline.org/article/6227

Auditory Processing Disorder: Symptoms, Cause, and Treatment. (2019, March 07). Retrieved September 21, 2020, from https://www.webmd.com/brain/auditory-processing-disorder

https://www.audiologyonline.com/articles/national-coalition-on-auditory-processing-1194#:~:text=On%20August%2014%2C%202000%2C%20the%20National%20Coalition%20on,has%20been%20granted%20501C3%20status%20from%20the%20IRS.

https://www.medicinenet.com/auditory_processing_disorder_in_children/normal-il_city.htm

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Natural Resources and Areas Regarding APD

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Natural Resources and Areas Regarding APD

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One thing that people can use for helping assist students with APD is an auditory trainer. This person will help the students to understand how they should learn and guide them to learn successfully. Another item that could help these students with APD would be an assistive listening device. These devices allow the students to hear more of the background noise that they aren't able to hear because of the disorder. Students that have APD disorder can go to certain medical areas to obtain these devices and ask the medical specialists what would work best for the student in there classroom.

An organization that supports Auditory processing Disorder is the Nation Coalition of Processing Disorders. This organization supports families that have the disorder within the family to help them to learn and get though the hardships of having the set backs APD gives the people affected by it.

Normal Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician Doctors and Specialists for Auditory Processing Disorder in Children:
What is a Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician? "A subspecialty certification by the Board of Pediatrics; practitioners have a special interest in the developmental, learning, and behavioral problems of children, and in the support of parents and children during normal development and illness."

Total Focus Program for ADHD/ADD Challenges:

The Total Focus Group is designed to help children, adolescents, and families deal with the struggles that ADHD/ADD creates. You will be given practical tools and techniques to help you minimize problems and to maximize personal and family success.

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The main disorders that have had the most similarities to APD is ADHD and ADD. Because of how children with APD respond to learning and have a hard time interpreting what the teacher is trying to say, it can be very similar to how students with ADHD and ADD experience learning.

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https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=AwrJ6OIzGWhfFlEAxA40nIlQ;_ylu=c2VjA3NyBHNsawN2aWQEdnRpZAMEZ3BvcwMx?p=ADP+disorder&vid=8c5d4f39fbd7468fbfcf9ef66f8d76f3&turl=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOVP.HPTNM8CGIMo7cHoc7fSpgAEsDh%26pid%3DApi%26h%3D225%26w%3D300%26c%3D7%26rs%3D1&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DME0dSM3D-Bk&tit=Auditory+Processing+%3Cb%3EDisorder%3C%2Fb%3E+%3Cb%3EADP%3C%2Fb%3E&c=0&h=225&w=300&l=884&sigr=mTzDT9RE5Poe&sigt=lcq88jbnhLpU&sigi=B5a7hCyaHWdv&age=1462045775&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Av&fr=yhs-Lkry-SF01&hsimp=yhs-SF01&hspart=Lkry&type=ANYS_A193D_ga_bsf_%2452462_000000%24&param1=mT_DXoYdYLpVJ04XtDucsAIgd-Na3GwqgmCLGUVEiirLcrYWVI_1LXS2hQ6mN9D6XcblvPCxbEExSqzIC4Pxoj-JnRD_94JgXL-Kv6tXOFz7beF3oWLKDl8LCFgJSjwNcBreZDtGgjD0NZ8H-WLZq7L-9mS08S6cYycT9yCFPnLhMXgBwsrqm35cwcmACN53KnJ6utSZ-zyX4tgNJbNqLYne1sEQhF-bBd2_IueNX7nHG4jc53OgCkjX02VpTBPTCMNnd_eKJsc-N9wY4yaQ&tt=b
I chose this source because it offers a good starting definition and summary of what APD disorder is and how students are effected by it. There weren't may videos like this one the brought the school aspect into the video and offered a great synopsis of the disorder. (I apologize for the fact that the video is 4 minutes over the limit).

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There are a number of strategies that could be used to help these students when it comes to helping them learn effectively. One of them would be to create lessons that allow the students to engage with their classmates to learn so that the teacher doesn't have to give the lesson and have the APD students struggle to hear them. Another strategy would be to allow the students to learn by using their strengths, which for a student with APD would be whatever they feel helps them learn most effectively.

One way to strategies teaching to students with DPA is to to have them work with other students in a group to help them learn and focus on the work at hand, or allowing these students to sit closer to the teacher so that they can ask for assistance anytime with the teacher knowing to help them right away.

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Having ear infections regularly can be one cause found when obtaining APD.

Premature birth can being under weight.

Having a serious head injury could possibly conclude in somebody having ADP.

APD can run in the family through genes.

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APD is something that doesn't have a set definition but has been described as a student or child that has impaired hearing. Meaning that in the classroom, the student struggles to be able to interpret verbal instruction as well as filter out the different background noises they hear. Overall, students with APD disorder have a hard time paying attention to oral presentations within the classroom because of how challenging it is for them to focus and listen to the teaching lesson.

There are other factors that can be found in the ADP definition being that the disorder also focuses in on the fact that the students aren't able to process things with there brain. It is very hard for these students to analyze things and the brain doesn't work properly.