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Central Auditory Processing Disorder

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Auditory perceptual disorder (APD); Auditory processing disorder (APD); CAPD; Sensory integration-C/APD (SI-C/APD)

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Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) is not a neuropsychological diagnosis. It refers to an amalgam of symptoms diagnosed by audiologists and/or speech and language specialists using the audiology code of ICD-9 code 388.4 (Abnormal Auditory Processes).

The American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA, 2005) defines CAPD as difficulties in the perceptual processing of auditory information in the central nervous system (CNS). It presents in the form of poor performance in one or more of the following abilities or skills: sound localization and lateralization, auditory discrimination, auditory pattern recognition, temporal aspects of audition (including temporal integration, temporal discrimination/gap detection, temporal ordering, and temporal masking), auditory performance in competing acoustic signals (including...

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    Sarah J. Leinen

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  1. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Professor of Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry Virginia Commonwealth University – Medical Center Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, VCU, 980542, Richmond, Virginia, 23298-0542, USA

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Shechter, J.A., Leinen, S.J. (2011). Central Auditory Processing Disorder. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79948-3_1527

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