Leaflets available
If you would like to know more about APD, two leaflets are available containing introductory information for parents and for adult patients. You can download them here.
Auditory processing disorder (APD) is a term that is often used to describe people with normal hearing who have listening difficulties. Typical indications are difficulties listening in noise, understanding and following verbal instructions and poor auditory memory. There has been very little research into APD, so we are presently not sure what goes wrong, or even how common it is. Although most of our research to date has been with children, adults can also have APD.
If you have APD, click here to read a statement of IHR's progress researching and developing tests for APD.
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Research Projects
- An overview of APD research and recent developments.
- The IHR multi-centre Study of Auditory Processing (IMAP) (Updated November 2010)
- The IMAP Field Test collaboration
Further details of this work can be found in the IHR Research Programme.
News
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Documents and Abstracts
A selection of documents and conference abstracts concerning APD are available, including recent publications and an introductory leaflet for parents.