Journal Reviews

The basis of auditory processing disorder: what can we learn from corticals?

5 January 2022 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, Paediatric ENT | Auditory perception, Auditory processing disorder, Child, Cortical auditory evoked potential, Hearing

Auditory processing disorder (APD) is a poorly understood, heterogenous and surprisingly common condition. It manifests as a perceptual difficulty in centrally processing auditory information. Diagnosis is usually based on a variety of behavioural tests involving verbal and non-verbal assessments. In...

Childhood speech processing in background noise

1 January 2016 | | Auditory development, Auditory processing, Electrophysiology, FFR, Speech recognition in noise, cABR

Normal childhood development of the auditory systems involves mapping sounds to meaning and the neural coding of speech. Children are often subjected to adverse listening environments such as high levels of background noise. This paper aimed to delineate the effects...