What is it about?
Auditory Processing Disorder is diagnosed in children using a psychoacoustic battery approach of standardized tests and requires clinical thinking and a thorough medical and neurodevelopment; history. A newly developed test WRRC (Word Recognition Rhythm Component) using tones and bisyllabic words embedded in babble shows that while typically developing children use the rhythm presentation of preceding tones and following aligned words to facilitate speech perception, APD children do not seem to able to use rhythm as a benefit.
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Why is it important?
This opens up to musical training at a basic rhythm level as a tool to be included in individualised auditory training programs for APD children to attempt rehabilitation of normal speech in babble/noise perception.
Perspectives
Musical training is known to influence cognition but this research paper points to a more basic auditory processing benefit with a possible impact on speech in noise perception.
Prof Vasiliki (Vivian) Iliadou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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This page is a summary of: Absence of Rhythm Benefit on Speech in Noise Recognition in Children Diagnosed With Auditory Processing Disorder, Frontiers in Neuroscience, May 2020, Frontiers,
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00418.
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