The author, a family physician, writes about her adoptive daughter being diagnosed with the rare genetic disorder aniridia and later with a central auditory processing disorder. Both mother and daughter learn about these disorders and develop coping strategies.

INTRODUCTION Stuttering is a speech fluency disorder, and may be associated with neuroaudiological factors linked to central auditory processing, including changes in auditory processing skills and temporal resolution. OBJECTIVE To characterize the temporal processing and long-latency auditory evoked potential in stutterers and to compare them with non-stutterers. METHODS The study included...

BACKGROUND expressive vocabulary and auditory processing in children with phonological disorder. AIM to compare the performance of children with phonological disorder in a vocabulary test with the parameters indicated by the same test and to verify a possible relationship between this performance and auditory processing deficits. METHOD participants were 12 children diagnosed with phonologi...

Background: expressive vocabulary and auditory processing in children with phonological disorder. Aim: to compare the performance of children with phonological disorder in a vocabulary test with the parameters indicated by the same test and to verify a possible relationship between this performance and auditory processing deficits. Method: participants were 12 children diagnosed with phonologic...