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  2. Auditory processing disorder - Wikipedia

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    Auditory processing disorder (APD) 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 sounds composing speech.

  3. Phonological Awareness for Literacy - Wikipedia

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    Each level consists of subsections of teaching, auditory analysis, decoding and encoding. Children progress from non-words to real words within each level, prior to commencing the next level. The design of the program ensures that the child is not exposed to more difficult tasks before acquiring the necessary skills at preceding levels.

  4. Sensory processing disorder - Wikipedia

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    Sensory discrimination disorder involves the incorrect processing of sensory information. [1] The SDD subtypes are: [48] Visual; Auditory; Tactile; Gustatory (taste) Olfactory (smell) Vestibular (balance, head position and movement in space) Proprioceptive (feeling of where parts of the body are located in space, muscle sensation)

  5. Speech and language impairment - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Characteristics of dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    Difficulty distinguishing different sounds in words (auditory discrimination) Difficulty in learning the sounds of letters (In alphabetic writing systems) Difficulty associating individual words with their correct meanings; Difficulty with time keeping and concept of time; Confusion with combinations of words; Difficulty in organization skills

  7. Perceptual learning - Wikipedia

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    Tallal, Merzenich and their colleagues have successfully adapted auditory discrimination paradigms to address speech and language difficulties. [72] [73] They reported improvements in language learning-impaired children using specially enhanced and extended speech signals. The results applied not only to auditory discrimination performance but ...

  8. Tactile discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Tactile discrimination is the ability to differentiate information through the sense of touch. The somatosensory system is the nervous system pathway that is responsible for this essential survival ability used in adaptation. [ 1 ]

  9. Linguistic profiling - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic profiling is the practice of identifying the social characteristics of an individual based on auditory cues, in particular dialect and accent.The theory was first developed by Professor John Baugh to explain discriminatory practices in the housing market based on the auditory redlining of prospective clientele by housing administrators.