Hearing Matters
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چکیده
As audiologists, we understand the important role hearing sensitivity plays in the development of reading skills. What we don’t always consider, however, is the effect of central auditory processing. The accurate representation of speech sounds is an important aspect of learning to link sounds with orthographic symbols, a fundamental building block of reading (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010;107[17]:7939-7944). Furthermore, if a child is not making sound-to-meaning connections in language, then efficient, automatic representation of sound by the auditory system will not develop. It stands to reason that the evaluation of auditory-processing abilities, in addition to basic hearing thresholds, is an important part of the assessment of children who are having difficulty reading.
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