After meningitis - does my son have an auditory processing disorder????

[kate158]

My DS was deafened by pneumococcal meningitis aged 10 months. He was left profoundly deaf and now has a cochlear implant.

He is now nearly 10 and he is struggling more and more in school and not keeping up with his deaf peers. it has been suggested that he may have an auditory processing disorder but nobody, including the ed psych, paediatrician, NDCS, meinigitis trust .....(the list goes on) seems to know who would be able to diagnose this in a deaf child.

I'm getting to the end of my tether and am hoping that someone may have been through something similar and can offer some advice.

I know very little about the condition, but there were past threads which you could search, and Great Ormond Street was mentioned as a place which has specialists in this

I think its Tony Sirimanna at GOSH - but you'll need to be referred by an audiologist to GOSH, alternatively you may be able to see him privately.

Could also email Dilys Treharne at Sheffield University and ask her if she has experience of this. She did private APD assessment for our DS. Google and you should find contact details.

the ndcs has some info here might be worth ringing their helpline. And also some stuff here

There is a type of auditory processing therapy that is done with bone conduction. Is it possible with his cochlear implant that he might be able to engage in something like this?

Thanks for the suggestions, I have already contacted the NDCS and a few others but I will try Dilys Treharne and Tony Sirimanna and see how I get on. I'll keep you posted!