auditory processing disorder

English

Alternative forms
  • (initialism) APD

Noun

auditory processing disorder (plural auditory processing disorders)

  1. (pathology) an umbrella term for a variety of disorders that affect the way the brain processes auditory information; it is generally differentiable from aphasia in that aphasia is by definition caused by acquired brain injury, whereas auditory processing disorder is principally neurodevelopmental.
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