Identifying language disorders earlier can set children up for success Expert focuses on skills that support children’s early word learning, language processing Arielle Borovsky, associate professor ...

Once derided as a silly novelty, emojis are coming into their own as a communication tool. New app Wemogee uses the ideograms to help people with aphasia, a language-processing disorder that makes ...

A 5-year-old wearing headphones is instructed by a prerecorded voice to repeat what they hear word for word. Such a test, called sentence recall, measures auditory processing, memory and language ...

The semantic maps can also inform interventions for dyslexia, a widespread, neurodevelopmental language-processing disorder that impairs reading.

Are noise-cancelling headphones contributing to a rise in auditory processing disorder in young people? Experts say there’s no evidence to support that.

Learning disorders or disabilities are neurologically based processing problems, or what could be called "faulty wiring" in the brain. The resulting disorder -- be it a learning, language or motor ...

The 11-year-old, who is autistic and has a language processing disorder, was overwhelmed by the noise as the audience applauded around him.

During her son Ben's time in school, Alison Peetz became an expert in advocating for his needs. Ben — who is now an adult — is autistic and has a language processing disorder. Peetz described ...

Or a language processing disorder can make it difficult to answer open-ended questions about what they’ve read, making it seem as if they didn’t do their homework.