WASHINGTON – New research suggests it may be possible to predict which preschoolers will struggle to read – and it has to do with how the brain deciphers speech when it’s noisy. Scientists are looking ...

Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) in children encompasses a spectrum of difficulties in the brain’s ability to interpret and make sense of sounds despite normal peripheral hearing sensitivity.

Adults who stutter experience differences in how their brains process sound, and these sensory differences tend to overlap ...

Inherent auditory perception skills influence the effects of music training on speech processing ability, a study suggests. Music training is thought to augment neural encoding of speech in the brain, ...

Your ability to listen to a phone message in one ear while a friend is talking into your other ear—and comprehend what both are saying—is an important communication skill that’s heavily influenced by ...

Educators around the country have embraced the “science of reading” in their classrooms, but that doesn’t mean there’s a truce in the reading wars. In fact, controversies are emerging about an ...

Audiologists in the UK are concerned about the long-term effects of noise canceling headphones due to a rise in hearing issues. There has been an increase in cases of Auditory Processing Disorder (APD ...

Schizophrenia is characterised not only by positive and negative symptoms but also by fundamental disturbances in early auditory processing. Deficits in the rapid encoding of basic sound features—such ...