Spatial Hearing Deficits as a Major Cause of Auditory Processing Disorders: Diagnosis with the LISN-S and Management Options

Address correspondence to: Sharon Cameron, Ph.D., Research Scientist and NHMRC Research Fellow, National Acoustic Laboratories, 126 Greville Street, Chatswood, NSW, 2067, Australia, [email protected]. as variances in inter-aural time and intensity differences between speech streams to separate a target auditory stimulus from distracting auditory stimuli (a process referred to as spatial stream segregation). The test also differentially assesses how the children utilize the frequency-related differences between speaker voices to separate speech streams (a process referred to as vocal stream segregation). Management options for children with auditory steaming deficits are described. Monitoring the effectiveness of management strategies using the LISN-S critical differences scores is also discussed.