CAUSESAuditory processing difficulties can effect the development of speech, language and communication. This influences speech and the understanding of language. Children may have inherited this problem. However it also could have been caused by hearing loss due to a "glue ear" or ear infections. Especially during the period of speech and language development (0-3 years) this can have consequences for language acquisition (sounds don't come in properly or come in transformed) and result in language processing disorders. Many children with speech and language problems have difficulties with language processing. Their ability to take in, to organize, to store, to retrieve and to add to existing information in the brain is weak. Very
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