We carried out extensive audiologic, electrophysiologic, and neuropsychologic testing on a young woman who complained that she had difficulty hearing in her educational environment. Conventional audiometric results, including pure-tone, speech, and immittance audiometry, were all within normal limits. The subject performed normally on tests involving the processing of rapidly changing temporal ...

Central auditory processing disorders in children are introduced and defined. The article explains who should be evaluated and for what reasons. The evaluation process, test stimuli, and use of assessment findings are presented.

To cite: Cope TE, Baguley DM, Griffiths TD. Pract Neurol Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ practneurol-2014-001073 INTRODUCTION Disorders of audition stand at a crossroads between neurology, audiology, psychiatry and ENT. It is not uncommon for patients to ‘fall between the cracks’ of the referral pathway, and to become increasingly frustrated when specialties...

We compared auditory, cognitive, and language test results in a pair of dizygotic twins, one of whom showed symptoms of central auditory processing disorder (CAPD). Results highlight the importance of testing binaural function. In particular, electrophysiologic measures of dichotic listening effectively demonstrated the auditory-specific nature of this child's listening problems. The importance...

Unlike visual and tactile stimuli, auditory signals that allow perception of timbre, pitch and localization are temporal. To process these, the auditory nervous system must either possess specialized neural machinery for analyzing temporal input, or transform the initial responses into patterns that are spatially distributed across its sensory epithelium. The former hypothesis, which postulates...

objectives: this study investigated the efficacy of working memory training for improving working memory capacity and related auditory stream segregation in auditory processing disorders children. methods: fifteen subjects (9-11 years), clinically diagnosed with auditory processing disorder participated in this non-randomized case-controlled trial. working memory abilities and auditory stream s...

A uditory processing disorder (often called CAPD) is not a new entity. For decades, there has been an awareness among members of our own profession and others that individuals exist who, despite normal peripheral hearing sensitivity, exhibit auditory difficulties, especially in challenging listening environments . In 1954, Helmer Myklebust, in his book Auditory Disorders in Children, discussed ...

PURPOSE To compare the performances of children with dyslexia and a control group in behavioral tests of (Central) Auditory Processing and Long Latency Auditory Evoked Potentials (P300). METHODS Participants were 22 individuals with dyslexia (study group) and 16 individuals with typical development (control group). All individuals underwent behavioral and electrophysiological assessment of (C...

A 17-item questionnaire probing professional preparation and current practices in central auditory assessment was mailed to 500 audiologists selected randomly from the membership directory of the American Academy of Audiology. Data from 183 respondents, representing a 37 percent response rate, were analyzed. The majority of respondents reported minimal academic and clinical preparation in asses...