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Originally Posted by nycfem

I prefer signing to speaking too.

If you don't mind, could you describe more about what an auditory processing disorder is.

The short version is that my ears hear everything perfectly, but my brain often can't interpret that into useful information. For me personally that translates into things like not being able to filter out irrelevant sounds, or getting the sound of somebody talking to me but having no idea what they said. Often when people talk to me it sounds like they're slipping in and out of a foreign language, or just entirely speaking a foreign language. For whatever reason I just can't process sound very well a lot of the time.

I'm a pretty decent lipreader and most of the time I get by with that combined with whatever I can glean from what I'm hearing. Any time I can supplement auditory stuff with visual backup I do a lot better. My college set up captioning for my classes right after I was diagnosed, and by the end of that semester I'd managed to go from an F (pre-captioning) to an A in one of them, just because I could actually understand what was being said.