How is he doing now???

A lot has happened since that initial diagnosis. We now have four children; three boys and a girl. That 5 year old boy is 18 and in his first year of college. We have had two more children diagnosed with auditory processing disorder and I have, of course, developed quite a passion for the subject on how to help them. When our oldest was diagnosed, we had no idea how to proceed. We thought that his illnesses were the cause of his hearing problems and had no idea the ways in which an individuals brain is wired, affects the entirety of the person. Seth, our 18 year old, struggled socially all the way through school. The overwhelming presentation of APD for him is called prosodic. It impacts the way in which a person intakes language. While his brain is struggling to sort out all the sounds and make sense of what he is trying to hear, his brain does not process things like sarcasm or humor. He has misunderstood so many social interactions over the years that it has been a constant source of stress for him. He is getting better as he grows into an adult, but it is still hard. He also does not read other people's body language or pick up on social cues very well. Seth is working hard to learn to read body language, but he may always struggle with it.