An analysis of auditory attending skills

he components of beginning reading have beenidentified as visual and auditory processing along with mature perceptual and verbal skills. A broad experiential base appears to foster fluent reading after the initial phase of letter recognition and decoding. Visual discrimination deficits appear to be more easily diagnosed than auditory deficits partly because of the objectivity of the stimuli (for example, eye movement and copying tasks). Auditory difficulties have been variously described or elaborated as deficits in auditory memory, auditory processing, auditory sequencing, auditory discrimination, and auditory perception. Researchers have compared visual learning ap-proaches with auditory approaches and generally con-cluded that although both are used by the skilled reader, strength in the auditory area tends to make for bette