A randomized control trial of interventions in school-aged children with auditory processing disorders

M Sharma, SC Purdy, AS Kelly - International journal of audiology, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: The primary purpose of the study was to compare intervention approaches for
children with auditory processing disorder (APD): bottom-up training including activities …

Investigation of auditory processing disorder and language impairment using the speech-evoked auditory brainstem response

CN Rocha-Muniz, DM Befi-Lopes, E Schochat - Hearing research, 2012 - Elsevier
This study investigated whether there are differences in the Speech-Evoked Auditory
Brainstem Response among children with Typical Development (TD),(Central) Auditory …

Auditory temporal-envelope processing in high-functioning children with autism spectrum disorder

JI Alcántara, TE Cope, W Cope, EJ Weisblatt - Neuropsychologia, 2012 - Elsevier
Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) perform worse than controls when
listening to speech in a temporally modulated noise (Alcántara, Weisblatt, Moore, & Bolton …

Non‐word repetition in adolescents with specific language impairment (SLI)

SH Ebbels, JE Dockrell… - International journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Background: Non‐word repetition (NWR) difficulties are common, but not universal, among
children with specific language impairment (SLI). However, older children and adolescents …

Low-level deficits in beat perception: Neither necessary nor sufficient for explaining developmental dyslexia in a consistent orthography

TC Papadopoulos, GK Georgiou, RK Parrila - Research in Developmental …, 2012 - Elsevier
This article reports two different studies examining the theoretical account of low-level
deficits in beat perception as an alternative explanation of developmental dyslexia in Greek …

Effect of phonological training in French children with SLI: perspectives on voicing identification, discrimination and categorical perception

G Collet, C Colin, W Serniclaes, I Hoonhorst… - Research in …, 2012 - Elsevier
The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of auditory training on voicing
perception in French children with specific language impairment (SLI). We used an adaptive …

Contribution of temporal processing skills to reading comprehension in 8‐year‐olds: Evidence for a mediation effect of phonological awareness

N Malenfant, S Grondin, M Boivin… - Child …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This study tested whether the association between temporal processing (TP) and reading is
mediated by phonological awareness (PA) in a normative sample of 615 eight‐year‐olds …

Anatomical correlates of dynamic auditory processing: relationship to literacy during early adolescence

ME Sutherland, RJ Zatorre, KE Watkins, PY Hervé… - NeuroImage, 2012 - Elsevier
Adults show great variation in their auditory skills, such as being able to discriminate
between foreign speech-sounds. Previous research has demonstrated that structural …

Maturational changes in the human envelope-following responses

EM Nodarse, MCP Abalo, AT Fortuny… - Acta …, 2012 - Elsevier
Introduction The auditory ability to discriminate rapid changes in the envelope of language
sounds is essential for speech comprehension. Human envelope-following responses …

Maturation of rapid auditory temporal processing and subsequent nonword repetition performance in children

AM Fox, CL Reid, M Anderson… - Developmental …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
According to the rapid auditory processing theory, the ability to parse incoming auditory
information underpins learning of oral and written language. There is wide variation in this …