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Auditory Processing Symptoms Checklist

Prior to treatment at the Drake Institute, many of our patients suffered from some of the following symptoms. If these symptoms seem to fit your family member, then there is a high likelihood that we can help. Fill out our online contact form and symptom checklist, and a qualified profession will contact you to determine if we can help.


  • Needing to reread information, (e.g. at the end of a page having to go back to the top and read it again because the information was not retained)
  • Poor spelling, grammar, and punctuation
  • Tendency to talk in circles or rambling on and on with difficulty getting to the point (difficulty organizing your thoughts and thinking of certain words to express yourself easily)
  • Difficulty with written language (e.g. poor paragraph organization, unable to write a story or essay that is clear and sequential with an appropriate amount of detail; cannot easily write thoughts or answers into meaningful sentences and paragraphs)
  • Difficulty following verbal directions
  • Poor academic performance
  • Difficulty with reading aloud (speech may be halted, and words may be skipped or misread)
  • Difficulty with word problems in math
  • Struggling to learn to identify colors, inability to learn letter names
  • Oral expression is disorganized - spontaneous speech is characterized by fill in words (“thing”, “ya know”, “stuff”, “like”)
  • Difficulty giving directions
  • Medical history of middle ear problems in early childhood
  • Academic difficulty in the third grade
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