spaceprovided)Our long term goal is to develop an effective training regime for auditory based learning disabilities. The goalof the proposed study is to further understand the role of brainstem timing in auditory processing andliteracy. Specifically, we are interested in the functional relations between brainstem and cortical processing,auditory processing and literacy in children with reading disability. We will characterize the auditoryprocessing profile of children with reading disability and abnormal brainstem timing. Consequently, aperceptual training paradigm will be used to test the hypothesis that brainstem timing can be improved. Wewill also test the hypothesis that such training will generalize to speech perception and literacy related skills.Auditory evoked potentials and behavioral performance will be measured before and after behavioral trainingand compared between reading disabled children with normal and abnormal brainstem timing and normallearning children. We expect that training will result in changes in both cortical and brainstem function as wellas in behavioral measures relating to brainstem timing. This study will thus result in better understanding ofthe physiological basis of learning disability and of the organization of the auditory system.
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