Does your child have good hearing but listen poorly? Some parents refer to this as selective hearing, but your child may actually have trouble listening. While hearing is the ability to detect sound, ...

Auditory Processing Disorders (APDs) in children represent a complex set of difficulties in the perceptual processing of sound despite normal peripheral hearing. These disorders are broadly ...

New diagnostic tests for auditory processing disorder (APD), which is estimated to affect between 2 and 7 percent of children could be available within five years through research funded by the ...

By adapting teaching methods to accommodate auditory processing difficulties, educators can help students build confidence and develop essential literacy skills despite their processing challenges.

It is not related to higher level language or cognitive difficulties but rather stems from deficits in the neural processing of sounds. Children with CAPD may struggle to make sense of what they hear, ...

“I think there is something wrong with his [her] hearing,” is a comment I often hear from parents of children on the spectrum, pertaining to the atypical auditory processing they notice in their loved ...

Recent headlines in the United Kingdom earlier this year attributed noise-canceling headphones as a possible culprit in rising rates of auditory processing disorder (APD) and hearing problems in ...