Childhood Disabilities & Disorders
- When to Seek Therapy
- Disabilities & Disorders
- ADHD/ADD
- Anxiety Disorders
- Apraxia of Speech, Childhood
- Articulation Disorders
- Asperger's Syndrome
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Birth Injuries
- Central Auditory Processing Disorder
- Cerebral Palsy
- Clubfoot
- Conduct Disorder
- Down Syndrome
- Elimination disorders (enuresis and encopresis)
- Failure to thrive/feeding disorder
- Fine and Gross Motor Delays
- Fluency/Stuttering
- Fracture
- Fragile X Syndrome
- Gait abnormalities
- Global Developmental Delay
- Hip dysplasia
- Language Delays
- Learning Disabilities
- Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease
- Mental Retardation
- Mood Disorders
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
- Oral Motor Disorders
- Orthopedic conditions
- Osgood-Schlatter Disease
- Pervasive Developmental Disorder
- Pica
- Reactive attachment disorder of infancy or early childhood
- Reading Disorders
- Scoliosis
- Selective Mutism
- Sensory Processing Disorder
- Separation anxiety disorder
- Tic disorders
- Torticollis (Wry Neck)
- Additional Resources
Central Auditory Processing Disorder
Central Auditory Processing Disorder is a collective term used to describe a variety of disorders that affect the way the brain processes auditory information. It is not a hearing impairment; individuals with Central Processing Disorder typically have normal peripheral hearing ability.
People with Auditory Processing Disorder are occasionally unable to process verbal information and therefore do not process what is being said to them. Although they may be able to repeat instructions word for word, they do not necessarily grasp the meaning of the message. As such, simple repetition or speaking louder to someone with a Central Auditory Processing Disorder does not help.
It is characterized by poor recognition, discrimination, separation, grouping, localization, or ordering of non-speech sounds.
Auditory processing disorder is difficult to diagnose. It is therefore sometimes misdiagnosed as ADHD and forms of autism, such as Asperger’s syndrome.
