A 6-year-old was scolded by his school bus driver for his “naughty behavior.” An 11-year-old put his hands over his ears and screamed on the stage during his school’s fifth-grade promotion ceremony. A ...

Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) in children encompasses a spectrum of difficulties in the brain’s ability to interpret and make sense of sounds despite normal peripheral hearing sensitivity.

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- They come from all walks of life – firefighter, author, nurse, bus driver and homemaker – but share the challenges of living with aphasia, a language disorder that affects the ...

Social communication disorder, also called pragmatic language disorder, is a new entry to the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Before that, the idea ...

Especially after the last few years, kids’ academic skill levels are all over the place. Depending on how well your child did with online learning (or whatever else was going on in their lives), your ...

Sensory processing disorder (SPD) and autism often occur together. However, they can also occur independently and are separate conditions. SPD involves difficulty detecting, modulating, and ...

Many stroke survivors experience aphasia, a speech and language processing disorder that can have serious, negative impacts on numerous aspects of daily life. According to a new Baycrest study, using ...

Roughly 8-9% of young children have a speech sound disorder, which results in difficulties producing speech sounds correctly and often has no known cause, according to the National Institute on ...

Or a language processing disorder can make it difficult to answer open-ended questions about what they’ve read, making it seem as if they didn’t do their homework. Or their hyperfixation on specific ...