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Auditory Processing disorder
Background
To be able to hear well we need to have a normally functioning hearing system – outer, middle and inner ear, hearing nerve and part of the brain that deals with sound. We need to be able to hear day-to-day sounds, speech not only in a quiet environment but in various listening environments. This involves extracting what we want to hear such as speech from other sounds, such as background noise. Having two ears help us to locate a sound source and sense movements of sound. If these functions do not work normally, this can lead to an auditory processing disorder (APD).
