That experience was one of the crucial factors that lead us to focus our medical careers on helping children especially gifted children with learning difficulties. In the years since we have had many more encounters with CAPDs, and we are constantly surprised both by their prevalence and by the many difficulties they create in children's lives. Published reports suggest CAPDs affect roughly 2-3...

The human auditory cortex is the gateway to the most powerful and complex communication systems and yet relatively little is known about its functional organization as compared to the visual system. Several lines of evidence, predominantly from recent studies, indicate that sound recognition and sound localization are processed in two at least partially independent networks. Evidence from human...

Auditory processing during childhood may be altered if there is any predisposing factor during the course of development. Neurological disorders are among the risk factors for auditory processing disorders. Some studies have shown verbal auditory processing disorder in children with epilepsy. Objective To verify the performance of children with epilepsy on a nonverbal dichotic test. Methods...

Background: temporal auditory processing and developmental dyslexia. Aim: to characterize the temporal auditory processing in children with developmental dyslexia and to correlate findings with cortical malformations. Method: twenty school-aged children, ranging in age from 8 to 14 years were evaluated. These children were divided into two groups: the experimental group (EG) was composed by 11 ...

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...

Auditory processing disorder (APD) affects about 2-5% of children. However, the nature of this disorder is poorly understood. Children with APD typically have difficulties in complex listening situations. One mechanism thought to aid in listening-in-noise is the medial olivocochlear (MOC) inhibition. The purpose of this review was to critically analyze the published data on MOC inhibition in ch...

The central auditory test results for three normal-hearing children who were initially diagnosed as having a central auditory processing disorder and learning disability are presented. They were referred to the authors for second-opinion consultations. Central auditory processing retesting was performed by the authors under the condition of no reinforcement and then the condition of reinforceme...

Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas SP, Brazil: PhD student; PhD; Assistant Professor; Associate Professor; Full Professor. Interaction between University Service and Community Program, Botucatu Medical School, State University of São Paulo “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”: Assistant Professor. Department of Speech Therapy, University of São...

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...