About Lois

Lois Kam Heymann, M.A. CCC-SLP, is a Speech and Language Pathologist with over 30 years experience working with children with listening, hearing and learning challenges and their parents. She is the leading authority of Auditory Processing Disorder. As a sought after speaker, she has presented hundreds of in-service workshops, seminars and conferences, sharing her knowledge and techniques with parent groups, school systems and speech therapists.

Lois is the author ofThe Sound of Hope: Recognizing, Coping with and Treating Your Child’s Auditory Processing Disorder (Random House Publishing). The book is a parent guide to the importance of listening skills development in children birth to 8 years old. It is a how-to book with easy to follow activities for parents to implement with their children. Rosie O’Donnell wrote the foreword detailing her personal experience working with Lois who diagnosed Rosie’s son with Auditory Processing Disorder.

Until June of 2010 Lois was on the faculty of the State University of New York (SUNY), where she was a professor in the Department of Communication Disorders and supervised a university-based clinic for individuals with listening and hearing challenges. In her new position, she is the Director of The Auditory Processing Center at CHC (Center for Hearing and Communication) in New York, NY. Services at the new Auditory Processing Center include: evaluations, consultations and therapy for children with listening challenges and Auditory Processing Disorders.