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  • Essay / Hearing ability and hearing disability - 2008

    Hearing ability is not limited to sounds detected by the ear and transmitted to the brain for analysis, recognition and understanding and represents only a small part of the hearing system as a whole . As such, hearing difficulty refers to difficulty understanding in noisy environments, difficulty following complex instructions, or difficulty learning new words or languages. People who can easily "hear" sounds or speech are not described as having hearing difficulties, and these difficulties are often attributed to other problems or disorders, which can lead to incorrect treatment. The brain identifies and analyzes perceived pitch, loudness, and loudness. duration and attempts to match it with learned or stored information, and we then understand what is said or recognize meaningful sounds (Baran and Schminky, 1999). The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association definition recognizes that many neurocognitive functions are involved in the processing of auditory information, some specific to acoustic signals and others more general and not necessarily considered components of auditory processing. (like attention, memory). and language representation), unless they are used to process this auditory information (Baran and Schminky, 1999).DefinitionCentral auditory processing disorder can be defined as an impairment of one or more of the perceptual phenomena (Baran and Schminky, 1999): location of the sound (where the sound comes from, in relation to the listener); auditory discrimination (recognizing different sounds from each other); temporal aspects (processing of acoustic signals over time, including ordering and integration of signals); perception with competing acoustic signals (speech perception......middle of article......o the disorder. However, the close relationship with attention deficit disorder means that the symptoms presented may be indicative of one or the other, and that testing should be as thorough as possible to avoid misdiagnosis. Just as attention problems associate CAPD with ADD, language problems associate it with ADD. For this reason, symptoms of both disorders may present as "side effects" in children with CAPD. Katz, Stecker & Henderson (1992, cited in Baran & Schminky, 1999, p. 1) describe the treatment. central auditory as "what we do with what we hear. Since most people with CAPD have normal hearing capacity, we are able to infer that it is in the neuronal transmission of messages that the disorder occurs." present. It can be treated or at least managed through personalized programs that target the different functions in which a child with CAPD may be deficient...