Information is transferred from the senses to the hippocampus, where it is processed and then moved to areas of the cerebral cortex for long-term storage. Since auditory data is processed in the hippocampus, the information may not be adequately transferred to long-term memory in autistic individuals. Auditory processing problems may also be linked to several autistic characteristics. Autism is sometimes described as a social-communication problem, and auditory processing information is a critical component of social communication. Other factors associated with acoustic processing problems include anxiety or confusion in social situations, inattentiveness, and poor speech comprehension.
             Interestingly, those individuals who do not have auditory processing problems are often 'auditory learners.' These children do very well using the Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) approach, whereas visual learners do not do as well with this approach (McEachin, Smith and Lovaas, 1993). Given this, one might suspect that many visual learners have auditory processing problems and that visual learners will do quite well with a visual communic
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