Auditory processing is the term used to describe what happens when your brain recognizes and interprets the sounds around you. Humans hear when energy that we recognize as sound travels through the ...

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

Auditory processing issues are common in children with autism spectrum disorder. Yet there are no set standards for testing for what doctors call auditory processing disorder — when the brain's ...

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 ...

A family recently came to me whose child has a reading disability. Among other recommendations, their school had requested an auditory processing evaluation. Central auditory processing disorder (CAPD ...

Studies on misophonia have compared the newly termed disorder to Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders, synesthesia, anger management problems, disorders related to impulse control, and ...

It's known as a processing disorder. It means kids can't understand spoken words correctly. Sixteen-year-old Zoe Robinson doesn't have any hearing problems, but she does have difficulty processing ...