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From:	Nicole (75.73.137.55)
Subject:	Re: Help! Hearing and comprehension problems
Date:	February 1, 2009 at 3:13 am PST

In Reply to: Help! Hearing and comprehension problems posted by Nancy on January 15, 2009 at 3:03 pm:

Hey there. I'm 23 and I just found your post by doing a google search for 'hearing comprehension.' I had finally gotten curious enough about my own difficulties to see if there was a name and a way to fix my problem, which is a little difficult to describe but sounds like it /might/ be the same as your son's. This is a direct copy of a conversation I had with a friend a few minutes ago.

You say, "I suck at interviews because I don't hear well."
You say, "I pick up sound just fine...it's just that my brain doesn't separate the syllables properly. So the words sound all jumbled together into nonsense."
Blacktruth says, "Like Charlie Brown adults?"
You say, "Usually I can figure out what someone said if I take a minute...but by then I've already asked 'What?' and they're repeating it."
You say, "I figure it out right after the word leaves my mouth."
You say, "I seriously think it's got something to do with the way I receive the sound, because I can hear the full range. I'm even musically inclined. But even in songs sometimes the words are just too jumbled for me until I see them written or someone speaks them slower."
Blacktruth says, "I wonder if there is a way to train yourself to focus better."
You say, "I dunno."
Blacktruth says, "Though for you it might be different."
Blacktruth says, "When I do it, it's because my mind isn't focused on what I'm listening to and i'm just absorbing all the noise around me."
You say, "It's like the words get split at the wrong places when I hear them. So for instance...'It's like' could become 'It sly keh.' And at that point I'm lost. For about ten seconds...and then I've gone 'Huh?'"
Blacktruth says, "Ah."
Blacktruth says, "That's kind of interesting actually."
You say, "I have to manually mash the sounds back together, and repeat them in my mind, to get a meaning."
You say, "But I have no trouble reading or speaking."
You say, "It almost seems like the input side of the brain is broken, and the output is fine. The input I don't understand, but when I take the sound and start to repeat it then it makes sense."

Now...I don't know if it's the same way for your son, but you could try asking him. If it is, I'd say ask a doctor, because they might have a better answer, and I'd be pretty interested in hearing it, too.

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