Guideline: Auditive Processing and Perception Disorders: Definition: Guideline of the German Society of Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology

Abstract

In accordance with international consensus papers, Auditory Processing Disorders are defined here as disorders of central processes of hearing, which enable, among other things, the pre-conscious and conscious analysis, differentiation, and identification of changes in time, frequency, and intensity of acoustic or auditory speech signals as well as processes of binaural interaction (e. g., for localization, lateralization, noise clearance, and summation) and dichotic processing. Following the establishment of a commission of experts from the German Society for Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology, the existing S1 guideline was revised and updated. In this chapter, a position is taken on the definition of this clinical disorder as well as on the delimitation of similar disorders.