Title: Dichotic training in children with auditory processing disorder

Central auditory processing disorder (APD) is defined as a deficit in auditory performances such as sound localization and lateralization, auditory temporal processing, auditory discrimination, auditory performance in presence of noise, or comprehension of degraded signals (1). Therefore, this term can refer to a wide variety of auditory functional deficits (2). One of the complaints of these patients is listening difficulty in noisy environments which can lead to academic failure in children and can affect the quality of life in elderly (1, 3, 4).

Source: International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology - May 11, 2018 Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Maryam Delphi, Farzaneh Zamiri Abdollahi Source Type: research