Auditory Processing Deficits

Auditory Processing Deficits
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By H.W. Catts| A.G. Kamhi
Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall

Auditory processing deficits have frequently been proposed as a cause of reading disabilities (Farmer & Klein, 1995; Tallal, 1980). According to these accounts, deficits in auditory perception, especially problems perceiving rapidly occurring or changing sounds, leads to poor phonological representations and, in turn, difficulties in phonological awareness and reading. Early support for this view was provided by Tallal (1980). She found that poor readers had deficits in perceptual judgments of rapidly presented non-speech stimuli and that their performance was closely related to phonological decoding skills. These findings and others have led to assessment protocols (Jerger & Musiek, 2000) and intervention programs (e.g., Tallal, 2000) to address auditory processing problems in poor readers.

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