Auditory Processing Disorders

With 8 new chapters and many other updates, Auditory Processing Disorders: Assessment, Management, and Treatment, Fourth Edition details the definition, behaviors, and comorbidities of auditory processing disorders (APD) while educating the reader on the most current global practices for assessment of APD, including its impact on literacy and language processing. Practical rehabilitation, management strategies, and direct evidence-based treatment programs, including the use of technology, are covered in detail. The text is a highly practical book designed specifically for practicing clinicians, instructors, and students, in both both audiology and speech-language pathology. It contains a comprehensive review of APD and is also an excellent resource for parents, teachers, and other professionals wishing to learn more about APD for themselves, their child, and their practice.

New to the Fourth Edition:

• New chapters on:

  • the effects of COVID-19, RSV, PANDAS, autoimmune disorders and other medical issues on APD

  • evaluating auditory processing disorders through telepractice

    the collaboration of the audiologist and speech-language pathologist in

  • evaluating auditory processing skills and other listening problems

    treatment interventions for deficit specific processing disorders and other auditory skills

  • differentiation between auditory processing and listening disorders

• Updated chapter on auditory neuropathy
• Updated chapter on current neuroscience on the relationship between auditory processing and literacy
• Description of new digital module technology for sound enhancement
• Updated APPS for interventions for auditory processing disorders

Key Features:

• Contributions from the field's most recognized experts, such as James W. Hall, III, Deborah Moncrief, Larry Medwetsky, John Wicker, Angela Alexander and Matt Barker
• Case Studies illustrating the pansensory nature of an auditory processing disorder and the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration
• Includes an integrative model for understanding auditory processing disorder utilizing research from cognitive neuroscience, neurophysiology, neurobiology, mathematics and neuroanatomy
• A model of speech understanding to differentiate auditory processing disorders from non-auditory deficits and listening problems

PluralPlus Online Ancillary Materials

For instructors: Image Bank
For students and clinicians: Downloadable resources from the text