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Auditory processing disorder (APD), rarely known as King-Kopetzky syndrome, is a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting the way the brain processes sounds. [2] Individuals with APD usually have normal structure and function of the ear, but cannot process the information they hear in the same way as others do, which leads to difficulties in recognizing and interpreting sounds, especially the ...
Central auditory processing disorder This is not an actual hearing loss but gives rise to significant difficulties in hearing. One kind of auditory processing disorder is King-Kopetzky syndrome , which is characterized by an inability to process out background noise in noisy environments despite normal performance on traditional hearing tests.
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Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) is a listening disability or having problems processing what you hear all sound which includes the human sound communication system speech, sounds of nature, sirens, alarms etc. APD is not a hearing impairment. dolfrog 00:11, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
There may be peripheral and central symptoms, such as reduced auditory understanding in a complex listening environment, central auditory processing disorder and auditory hallucination. [23] Hyperacusis , that is the hypersensitivity to environmental noise can also develop.
Speech impairments (e.g., stuttering) and language impairments (e.g., dyslexia, auditory processing disorder) may also result in discrimination in the workplace. For example, an employer would be discriminatory if he/she chose to not make reasonable accommodations for the affected individual, such as allowing the individual to miss work for ...
[1] People with spatial hearing loss have difficulty processing speech that arrives from one direction while simultaneously filtering out 'noise' arriving from other directions. Research has shown spatial hearing loss to be a leading cause of central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) in children.
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