Historically, they have been considered at risk for difficulties in listening and language development.
That's important, says Deborah Moncrieff, an audiologist at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, because skeptics had questioned attributing difficulties in listening, learning, and reading to problems in the auditory pathway.
In addition, among healthcare professionals, workplace violence may lead to difficulties in listening to patients, rumination, poor concentration, and intrusive thoughts [ 11], as well as impact negatively on family life and quality of life [ 4].
For decades this disorder has been seen as essentially a behavior problem of children who were hyperactive and had difficulty in listening.
Today, thinking about my difficulty in listening to the news, it occurs to me that we often skip a more primal response to these stories, right to the "what it means," or "what to do" In fact, by the time we hear about something it's already couched in someone's interpretation or opinion about what to do.
The impairment of auditory processing could cause difficulties in complex listening situations, such as understanding speech in back-ground noise, rapid or degraded speech, and problems with comprehending verbal instructions [18, 20].
Examples of communication apprehension include difficulty not only in speaking in dyads, in groups, or in public but also in listening to or learning oral messages (Horwitz et al. 1986).
The language delay in people with ADHD can include problems with auditory processing disorders such as short-term auditory memory weakness, difficulty following instructions, slow speed of processing written and spoken language, difficulties listening in distracting environments e.g. the classroom, and weakness in reading comprehension.
Academic and/or underlying cognitive difficulties manifesting as listening difficulties may contribute to a child being referred for clinical assessment.
Persons with hearing impairment have particular difficulties listening in noise which may be reflected in recruitment of neural networks supporting compensatory processing [ 35, 36] whereas persons with normal hearing are generally better at coping with informational than energetic masking [ 37]; the same may not always be true for persons with hearing impairment [ 38– 40].
Exchange of experiences and encountering people with similar problems and similar difficulties, support, listening, and all the other components associated with a group activity are all very important to the benefit of physical exercise in groups.
