Arizona Department of Education AT Short Term Loan Library
Arizona Department of Education, Exceptional Student Services works in partnership with Northern Arizona University Institute for Human Development Arizona Technology Access Program to make available at no cost, a wide variety of assistive technology devices, equipment, software, and professional development materials to school personnel to improve access to assistive technology.
Publisher: Arizona Department of Education
Auditory Processing Disorder Factsheet (for Schools)
This factsheet provides information on what teachers should know about students with auditory processing disorder and how to support their learning in the classroom.
Publication Date: February 2021
Publisher: Nemours Children’s Health
Auditory Processing Disorders and Vision Processing Disorders in Twice-Exceptionality (2e): Are These Foundational Factors Being Overlooked?
This article explores what is currently known about auditory processing disorder and visual processing disorder, examines potential co-occurring conditions, such as dyslexia and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and presents clinical case file data suggesting how these sensory disorders.
Authors: Austina De Bonte, Ciara McCaffrey, Hilary Wisdom, Megan Locke, Nancy Torgerson, and Terri Lucero
Publication Date: 2024
Publisher: Journal for the Education of the Gifted
Classroom Accommodations for Auditory Processing Disorder
This article provides examples of accommodations teachers can use to help with auditory processing disorder in the classroom for classroom seating, materials, and routines; giving instructions and assignments; and introducing new concepts/lessons.
Publisher: Understood
Do You Hear What I Hear: Exploring Auditory Processing Differences
Emily Kircher-Morris talks with Austina De Bonte about auditory processing differences. Dr. De Bonte shares some methodologies used for testing, accommodations that are available, and ground-breaking auditory devices that have been found to help those dealing with auditory processing challenges.
Publication Update: July 2024
Publisher: The Neurodiversity Podcast
Encircle Families
Collaboration between families and professionals results in the best possible outcomes for children with disabilities. Encircle Families is an Arizona nonprofit organization that provides free training and information to parents to help them understand their rights, roles, and responsibilities in their child’s health care and education. Training for pre-service and in-service professionals in education is available to improve collaboration between families and providers and achieve better results for children.
Publication Date: 2025
Publisher: Encircle Families
Help for Kids with Auditory Processing Disorder
This article offers some changes parents and teachers can make in the environment to help kids with auditory processing difficulties listen and learn more effectively.
Author: Caroline Miller
Publication Date: Updated August 2025
Publisher: Child Mind Institute
High-Leverage Practices for Students with Disabilities
This revised and updated guide is relevant for general education and special education teachers. It includes four domains of evidence-based practices: Collaboration, Data-Driven Planning, Instruction in Behavior and Academics, and Intensify and Intervene As Needed. Each domain includes elementary and secondary examples of practice, research updates, and relevant resources for more information.
Publication Date: March 2024
Publishers: Council for Exceptional Children and CEEDAR Center
High-Leverage Practices Videos
These videos accompany High-Leverage Practices for Students with Disabilities and provide revised and updated information supporting the four domains with High-Leverage Practices within each domain and concrete examples to anchor and reinforce both knowledge development and application.
Publisher: CEEDAR Center
How Classroom Acoustics Affect Learning
Join Boys Town National Research Hospital for a live chat about classroom acoustics and how they affect listening and learning in the classroom. Meredith Spratford, AuD, CCC-A, senior research audiologist in The Audibility, Perception and Cognition Laboratory will be joined by James Cottrell, INCE Bd Cert, acoustical consultant at NV5 to discuss classroom noise and how it influences students with and without hearing aids and cochlear implants.
Authors: Meredith Spratford and James Cottrell
Publication Date: September 2022
Publisher: Boys Town National Research Hospital
Signs a Child Might Have Auditory Processing Disorder
Auditory processing disorder interferes with both learning and interacting with other people. This article offers behaviors to look for that may be signals to auditory processing challenges.
Author: Caroline Miller
Publication Date: Updated August 2025
Publisher: Child Mind Institute
Understanding Auditory Processing Disorders in Children
This article explains that auditory processing disorder is an auditory deficit that is not the result of other higher-order cognitive, language, or related disorder and offers how it is diagnosed and treated.
Author: Teri James Bellis
Publisher: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Venn Diagrams
Central Auditory Processing Disorder commonly coexists with other conditions including ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and sensory processing disorder. Venn diagrams display the characteristics isolated to each condition as well as shared attributes.
Publisher: Able Kids Foundation
What Is Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)?
This article explains auditory processing disorder and symptoms. It details the skills affected by auditory processing disorder as auditory discrimination, figure-to-ground discrimination, auditory memory, and auditory sequencing.
Author: Caroline Miller
Publication Date: Updated August 2025
Publisher: Child Mind Institute