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, ...

Even the simplest of sounds can set off a person with ADHD, often in ways that others don't understand. So, here are 11 ...

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 ...

Perry is a 10-year-old boy who was struggling academically in school, despite having received years of school-based interventional services. He’d been to a neurologist, a developmental pediatrician, a ...

Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) presents unique challenges for educators, especially when teaching reading skills. Children with APD process sounds differently than their peers, making it difficult ...

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 ...

Memory Impairment Associated With Sound Processing Disorder Date: July 23, 2008 Source: JAMA and Archives Journals Summary: Mild memory impairment may be associated with central auditory processing ...

Dani Tomlin receives funding from the HEARing CRC. Have you ever struggled to follow a conversation at a party? If listening and piecing together the conversation is a consistent problem, you might be ...

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, ...

Most people don't realize they're living in a quieter world until someone points it out. The grandkids mumble. The TV volume creeps higher. Restaurant conversations become exhausting guessing games.