Purpose The purpose of this review article is to describe characteristics of auditory
processing disorders (APD) by evaluating the literature in which children with suspected or …

Objectives: Children diagnosed with auditory processing disorders (APD) experience
difficulties in auditory functioning and with memory, attention, language, and reading tasks …

Evidence from animal and human studies suggests that moderate acoustic exposure,
causing only transient threshold elevation, can nonetheless cause “hidden hearing loss” that …

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 1237 not as a result of methodological design flaws, but rather
because the reviewers considered the disorder controversial and difficult to verify. This …

Objectives: In this study, the authors assessed the potential utility of a recently developed
questionnaire (Evaluation of Children's Listening and Processing Skills [ECLiPS]) for …

Hearing loss is one of the most common disabilities and has lifelong consequences for
affected children and their families. Both conductive and sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) …

Objectives: To identify the factors that may underlie the deficits in children with listening
difficulties, despite normal pure-tone audiograms. These children may have auditory …

Central auditory processing disorders (CAPD) can affect children and adults of all ages due
to a wide variety of causes. CAPD is a neurobiologic deficit in the central auditory nervous …

Many studies have shown that attention modulates the cortical representation of an auditory
scene, emphasizing an attended source while suppressing competing sources. Yet …

The ability to sustain attention on a task-relevant sound source while avoiding distraction
from concurrent sounds is fundamental to listening in crowded environments. We aimed to …