Older people often show auditory temporal processing deficits and speech-in-noise
intelligibility difficulties even when their audiogram is clinically normal. The causes of such …

Many people with difficulties following conversations in noisy settings have “clinically
normal” audiograms, that is, tone thresholds better than 20 dB HL from 0.1 to 8 kHz. This …

Learning to read proceeds smoothly for most children, yet others struggle to translate verbal
language into its written form. Poor readers often have a host of auditory, linguistic, and …

Background Healthy hearing depends on sensitive ears and adequate brain processing.
Essential aspects of both hearing and cognition decline with advancing age, but it is largely …

Much of our daily communication occurs in the presence of background noise,
compromising our ability to hear. While understanding speech in noise is a challenge for …

Objectives: To document the prevalence of clinically normal air conduction thresholds (0.5–4
kHz, bilaterally, 20 dB HL) among children and adults in a large audiology service and to …

Purpose Parental reports of communication, listening, and behavior in children receiving a
clinical diagnosis of specific language impairment (SLI) or auditory processing disorder …

Objectives:“Minimal” and “mild” hearing loss are the most common but least understood
forms of hearing loss in children. Children with better ear hearing level as low as 30 dB HL …

Objectives: To examine the links between auditory processing (AP) test results, functional
deficits, and cognitive abilities. Design: One hundred and fifty-five children, ages 7–12 years …

Children with listening difficulties, but normal audiometry, may be diagnosed with APD. The
diagnosis is typically based on poor performance on tests of perception of both non-speech …