Journal Reviews

The basis of auditory processing disorder: what can we learn from corticals?

5 January 2022 | | Audiology - Paediatric, Paediatric ENT | Auditory perception, Auditory processing disorder, Child, Cortical auditory evoked potential, Hearing

Auditory processing disorder (APD) is a poorly understood, heterogenous and surprisingly common condition. It manifests as a perceptual difficulty in centrally processing auditory information. Diagnosis is usually based on a variety of behavioural tests involving verbal and non-verbal assessments. In...

The paediatric dilemma of one ear in and one ear out of NICE criteria

1 May 2019 | | Auditory Implants | Auditory perception, Criteria, Guidelines, Indications, Outcomes, Paediatric CI, Quality of life, Speech and language development, Unilateral CI

The auditory implant team in Manchester have implanted a cohort of children where audiological thresholds meet the NICE guidance for cochlear implantation (CI) in one ear only, and the other falls into moderate, severe or sloping loss. These children are...