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...

Children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) frequently present difficulties performing tasks that challenge the central auditory nervous system. The relationship between ADHD and central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) is examined from the perspectives of cognitive neuroscience, audiology, and neuropsychology. The accumulating evidence provides a basis for the ov...

ôbjective: the mood disorder questionnaire (mdq) has been developed as a self-reporting, brief, and easy-to-use screening instrument to improve identification of bipolar mood disorders. the goals of the present study were to examine the prevalence of this disorder and interrelationship of its symptoms by factor analysis of mdq in a group of pregnant women in ïran. methods: ône thousand and eigh...

(Central) auditory processing disorder (abbreviated here APD) is defined as a deficit in the processing of auditory information, despite normal hearing thresholds, that primarily involves the auditory modality (ASHA, 2005; Jerger & Musiek, 2000). This umbrella definition encompasses a wide variety of perceptual and cognitive manifestations. APD thus cannot be reduced to a single anatomic site o...