Deficits and resulting symptoms and behaviours which characterise APDs
| Auditory deficits in: | Resulting symptoms and behaviours | |
| Sound localisation | Poor performance in confusing environments | |
| Auditory pattern recognition | Difficulties following oral instructions | |
| Auditory discrimination | Language, reading, and spelling disorders | |
| Temporal processing | ||
| Processing degraded auditory signals | Difficulties with rapid/degraded speech and with auditory closure | |
| Processing the auditory signal when embedded in competing acoustic signals | Difficulties in background noise | |
| Inattention | ||
| Distractibility | ||
| Academic difficulties | ||