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by lemming 1596 days ago
My daughter was recently diagnosed with a similar thing, APD (auditory processing disorder). Her hearing is perfect, and she aced all the auditory tests except one - they played her the sound of a lot of voices talking in the background, and she had to listen to one of them. Despite being able to hear perfectly, something in the processing in her brain makes that an impossible task for her. The specific difficulty is "auditory stream segregation".

In her report, they mentioned software called "LISn and Learn". Looks like it's now called SoundStorm: https://www.soundstorm.app/clinicians/the-evidence. Maybe that might be of interest to you, although it looks like it's oriented at kids.

2 comments

This is super interesting to me! Thanks for posting. I may write about it in the future :)
No worries! Feel free to email if you have questions.
Looks interesting, but I'm not going to fork out >$200 just to give it a try.