A systematic review of auditory processing abilities in children with speech sound disorders

Children with speech sound disorder (SSD) have incomplete phonological acquisition without organic alteration. These children’s exhibits multiple phoneme omission, substitution, and distortion errors. Auditory processing disorders (APD) are associated disorders. Since APD prevents the development of a stable representation phonemes in brain, it may cause issues make semantics, syntax, phonology challenging to acquire. The review summarises behavioral findings auditory abilities children SSD. study used literature search electronic databases (Google Scholar, Science Direct, Research Gate, PubMed) from 2007 2022. retrieved articles were assessed two stages: title abstract screening, followed by full-length article review. Six selected after 12 shortlisted articles. showed that temporal affected Thus, is critical for developing awareness because vital perceiving rapidly changing acoustic cues speech. close relationship between SSD highlights importance including assessment these children. Appropriate training which taps into skills improve effect on needs further study.