What is auditory discrimination?
The meaningful interpretation or discrimination of sounds and sound sequences is auditory perception. Perception includes the act of becoming meaningfully aware and affectively appreciative of a stimulus. This section is about that act when the stimulus is heard. Synonyms for auditory perception are auditory reception, auding, and auditory discrimination. The words auditory processing are often used to describe this discrimination and the putting of meaning to the sounds. All of these terms may be used about students with problems getting individual sounds in accurately, tracking separate sounds in a series, and/or associating them to appropriate meanings. Identifying Auditory Discrimination Auditory discrimination includes accurate registering of sounds or sequence of sounds that have been heard. The ability of the individual with normal hearing to tell the difference between the sounds in the words camp and clamp would be an example of auditory discrimination. Sometimes auditory figu
