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This has been created as an information area and support site for persons whose life has been affected in some way by APD/CAPD (Auditory Processing Disorder/Central Auditory Processing Disorder) in the USA.

FOR ALL STATES: Referrals are welcome for services and businesses that aid individuals and families affected by APD. Referrals for schools, universities, and employers that are more willing to make proper accommodations are welcome as well.

ASHA defines Central Auditory Processing Disorder as difficulties in the processing of auditory information in the central nervous system as demonstrated by poor performance in one or more of the following skills:

*sound localization and lateralization (knowing where in space a sound source is located),
*auditory discrimination (usually with reference to speech, but the ability to tell that one sound is different from another),
*auditory pattern recognition (musical rhythms are one example of an auditory pattern),
*temporal aspects of audition (auditory processing relies on making fine discriminations of timing changes in auditory input, especially differences in timing between the way input comes through one ear as opposed to the other),
*auditory performance decrements with competing acoustic signals (listening in noise), and
*auditory performance decrements with degraded acoustic signals (listening to sounds are muffled, missing information or not clear. example: try to listen to speech taking place on the other side of a wall. The wall `filters' out certain parts of the speech, but a typical listener can often understand).

Did you know? - 1 out of 10 people in the industrialized world has some form of hearing impairment, the equivalent of people who own a car. By 2015, an estimated 700 million people will be hearing impaired, the equivalent of people using the internet today.

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