Recent theories suggest that the basis of neurodevelopmental auditory disorders such as dyslexia or specific language impairment might be a low-level sensory dysfunction. In the present study we test this hypothesis in congenital amusia, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by severe deficits in the processing of pitch-based material. We manipulated the temporal characteristics of audito...

UNLABELLED Although the clinical use of click stimuli to assess auditory function at the brainstem is already established, and numerous research projects use such stimuli to study human hearing, little is known about the auditory processing of a complex stimulus like speech. AIM This study aimed at validating the speech stimulus as an effective method to evaluate speech auditory processing, t...

Auditory processing disorders contribute to communication difficulties in children with language-based learning impairments and in older adults who have trouble hearing in background noise. Therefore, deficits in auditory processing are widespread among these diverse populations. For this reason, it behooves both scientific and clinical communities to consider optimum techniques for assessing a...

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Dyslexia is commonly described as a disorder manifested by difficulties in learning to read and spell, despite adequate intelligence and conventional instruction. It is often diagnosed on the basis of a discrepancy between measures of reading ability and other cognitive skills, and is said to occur in 4–7% of children [1]. Explanations for dyslexia fall into three main categories. Perhaps the m...

background: according to previous studies, most of the speech recognition disorders in older adults are the results of deficits in audibility and auditory temporal resolution. in this paper, the effect of ageing on timecompressed speech and auditory temporal resolution by word recognition in continuous and interrupted noise was studied. methods: a time-compressed speech test (tcst) was conducte...

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.

Our senses connect us to the outside world. They help us perceive and structure our surroundings. Hearing is probably our most important sense as it gives us access to spoken language, necessary for the development of speech, language and communication in general. Development of speech and language in children is a continuous process, in which the first years of life are of the greatest importa...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence of oral language, orofacial motor skill and auditory processing disorders in children aged 4-10 years old and verify their association with age and gender. METHODS Cross-sectional study with stratified, random sample consisting of 539 students. The evaluation consisted of three protocols: orofacial motor skill protocol, adapted from the Myofunctional Ev...