APD diagnosed children do not utilise rhythm benefit to facilitate speech in babble perception.

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.

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