A study comparing four intervention strategies in children who have unusual difficulty understanding and using language found that all four methods resulted in significant, long-term improvements in ...

The brain can reorganize itself in the face of a traumatic injury or a sensory disability. For example, in deaf mammals, the auditory processing neurons of the brain may be rewired to handle other ...

Auditory processing disorder (APD) is when the brain cannot interpret sounds correctly. People may also refer to APD as central auditory processing disorder. People with APD may find it difficult to ...

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Perry is a 10-year-old boy who was struggling academically in school, despite having received years of school-based interventional services. He’d been to a neurologist, a developmental pediatrician, a ...

Athletes are often praised for overcoming physical maladies. But what if what's wrong isn't physical? And what if not even the player's coaches or teammates are aware that something's wrong? When Alex ...

In the first study of its kind, researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia used neuroimaging to examine auditory processing in children with nonverbal autism. The study, published in ...