Auditory Processing Disorder
Auditory processing disorders are one of the more controversial issues in audiology. I think we have reached the point were we all agree that auditory processing disorders exist, but how to diagnose, who can diagnose, and how to treat are up for debate. Can a speech-language pathologist, or psychologist make the diagnosis or only an…
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What Does Intelligible Speech Look Like?
Malcolm Gladwell reports that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to learn something new. Hart and Risley report that typical children hear about 46 million words by age 4. Dehaene reports that a child needs 20,000 hours of listening as a basis for reading. Pittman reports that children with hearing loss require three times the…
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