Auditory Processing Disorders

What is an APD?

APD is a condition in which patients have difficulty cognitively processing sounds, language and/or phonemes (any distinguishing unit of sound, e.g., “b” and “g” in “bag”). Judith W. Paton, an audiologist from San Mateo, Calif., describes APD as “a physical hearing impairment, but one that does not show up as a hearing loss on routine screenings or an audiogram. Instead, it affects the hearing system ‘beyond the ear,’ whose job it is to separate a meaningful message.”

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