Catalyst: Spatial Processing Disorder - ABC TV Sciencedownload segment mp. MB)NARRATIONIt's a familiar scenario - you're at a function and there are lots of people talking all around you. Dr Maryanne Demasi. But what if you couldn't hear the conversation, because it felt like everybody was talking to you at once? NARRATIONWell, you may not realise it, but it could be a problem called Spatial Processing Disorder. Dr Harvey Dillon. Spatial Processing Disorder is an inability to make use of the direction that sound is coming from. Fiona Gibbs. A little while later, the wind is roaring like a freight train. Dr Harvey Dillon. If you don’t want to wait, you can download the iOS 11 beta and get started. To do this, you’ll need to enroll in Apple’s Beta Software Program. Comparison of the best music theory and ear training software. I swear these pictures are not fake. I grew baby corn in my back yard, and it was easy. All you have to do, to grow baby corn, is fail at growing real corn. Charlie Pierce on all this ESPN nonsense and newspapering and what not is so fantastic and I’m bitter we didn’t run it. Go check it out. [SI]. General Safety Training Training Received On Trainer Company Safety Policy Statement and Safety Rules. suitable ear, eye. Training Program. Definitions. Normally, if sounds are coming from different directions, we can focus - we can focus straight ahead, if we hear something more interesting out there, we can focus out that way, even though we look this way. But some children just haven't developed that ability. Dr Sharon Cameron. We know that we tend to see the problem when children enter school. Often children, they don't realise what the problem is. They know that they're not performing like their peers. They become very fatigued from trying to listen all the time, and wonder what is wrong and become quite withdrawn. NARRATIONThis is what seven year- old Sophie was experiencing in the classroom. Fiona Gibbs. One- on- one, or in a very, very small group, she was absolutely fine. But in bigger groups of, say, maybe ten or more, she just withdrew and didn't really participate as much as what she does in a pair. We’re only in the first week of preseason and already there have been roughly seven billion injuries across NFL training camps. The poor Dolphins had to coax fat. The first Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Guidebook was written. Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Guidebook. Training program. Mr. Soundman is a frequency ear training software for audio engineers and music producers. Mr. Soundman is also a challenging game that encourages you to improve your. Dr Maryanne Demasi. In a noisy environment like this, Sophie would hear jumbled sounds. She couldn't quite pinpoint the direction the sounds were coming from. Sophie. I felt like they all wanted to talk to me at the exact same time, so I felt a bit scared. When I realised there was something wrong, I told my mum that I couldn't hear very well in the playground and sometimes in the classroom. Sonia. When Sophie and I were walking through a loud playground, and there was some girlfriends calling her name on the side, 'Sophie, Sophie, Sophie,' Sophie walked straight past them and I got that sinking feeling that there was something terribly wrong. I originally thought she was deaf, and we'd had some audiology testing and it had come back as though she had 1. NARRATIONDoctors suspect this spatial hearing problem could be triggered by inner- ear infections. Dr Harvey Dillon. While you've got a middle- ear infection, you've got a fluctuating hearing loss, so the input to each cochlea is changing. So we think these children just never learned to do these clever combinations of the sounds in the two ears, or maybe they unlearnt it while they had the problem. NARRATIONUntil now, the treatment has been inadequate, because getting the right diagnosis is tricky. Dr Harvey Dillon. Any of the conditions of Spatial Processing Disorder, ADHD, a specific language impairment can easily be mistaken for each other - the list of symptoms just have so much in common. That's why you need good tests that can tell one apart from the other. NARRATIONSophie was eventually referred to the National Acoustic Laboratories in Sydney. Dr Sharon Cameron. I want you to repeat back what the lady says to you, and ignore the tricky people. Can you do that? NARRATIONSophie's spatial processing ability was tested, to see if she could pick out voices coming from different directions. Dr Sharon Cameron. Anything now? Sophie. A voice. Dr Sharon Cameron. Good. Well done. NARRATIONWhen Sophie was first tested, she struggled. As well as developing a diagnostic tool to identify this hearing disorder, the researchers have come up with the world's first computer game to help children overcome it. Woman. Move down four spaces. NARRATIONAt home, Sophie practised the game every day for three months. Dr Sharon Cameron. We train the child to listen to target sentences, always in spatially separated background speech. And the speech and distractors are always said by the same female talker, so they can't rely on any voice cues. The child learns to use those spatial cues only to be able to tell the target from the distractor. NARRATIONIf Sophie gets the answers right, the game gets progressively more challenging. Sophie. The games help me, and.. I like playing the games. NARRATIONNow, three months later, she's being retested. Sophie. The police heard the report. Dr Sharon Cameron. Brilliant! NARRATIONDr Cameron showed me Sophie's results. Dr Sharon Cameron. She's moved right up and she is performing just like children without the disorder there, well within the normal range. So that's a great result for Sophie. Dr Maryanne Demasi. That's a remarkable difference between these points. Dr Sharon Cameron. It is. And we see this with all our research studies. Dr Maryanne Demasi. It's almost like after three months she's rewired her brain to be able to hear properly? Dr Sharon Cameron. We think that that's what's happened, yes. With the training, the neurons have reorganised so that she can get that result. We've also tested some children, even two years down the track, and we've found that they're still performing just like normal. NARRATIONSophie has come leaps and bounds since her testing. Fiona Gibbs. She's has become outgoing, she is now picking up lots of phonic cues, she's able to understand comprehension a lot more. Sonia. Sophie's reading went up phenomenally - something just happened. She must have been able to suddenly process a whole lot more, an exponential amount more, and I think she went up five reading groups in four weeks. Her handwriting improved, as well. Her maths improved. Everything improved. So it was a relief all round, not only for me, 'Goodness, we've got a treatment that works,' but also Sophie's confidence as well, which was astonishing. Dr Harvey Dillon. It makes me feel fantastic to see research flowing into practice, and flowing into improvements in people's lives. And we're just glad that this can form part of our research. Sophie. With my reading, I've been able to hear the corrections my teacher and my mum have said, and it's been a lot more easier to understand what she's saying with the better hearing. Reporter: Dr Maryanne Demasi. Producer: Paul Schneller. Researcher: Dominique Pile. Camera: Jeff Malouf ACSSound: Martin Harrington. Sarah Henty. Editor: Toby Trappel. Dr Harvey Dillon. Research Director, National Acoustic Laboratories. 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