Auditory Synthesis and Dichotic Listening in Children with Learning Disabilities
Auditory Synthesis and Dichotic Listening in Children with Learning Disabilities C. KEITH CONNERS, Ph.D. Harvard University School of Medicine KARL KRAMER, B.S. FRANK GUERRA, B.S. The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1 Many children with severe learning disorders have difficulty processing auditory information (Kass, 1962; Myklebust, 1954), often despite adequate pure-tone hearing. This is consistent with animal experiments showing that lesions of the auditory cortex may produce deficits in temporal processing of information or sound localization, even when the animals are still able to