What Is Auditory Perception?
Myklebust defines auditory perception as the ability to “structure the auditory world and select those sounds which are immediately pertinent to adjustment.” Berry and Eisenson state that children with auditory perceptual deficits can hear sounds but are unable to recognize them for meaning. Defined as the ability to recognize or interpret what is heard, auditory perception plays as important a role as visual perception in reading. Problems in auditory perception generally correspond to those in the visual area and are presented under the following components: • Auditory discrimination. This refers to the ability to hear similarities and differences between sounds. The child who has a problem in this area is unable to identify gross differences as between a siren and a school bell or phonemic difference as between words /pen/ and /pin/ or /big/ and /pig/. • Auditory foreground-background differentiation. This refers to the ability to select and attend to relevant auditory stimuli and i
