(Central) Auditory Processing Disorders - Technical Report

20 / 2005
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Appendix: Definition of Terms Used in This Document
• Assessment: Formal and informal procedures
to collect data and gather evidence (i.e., delineation
of functional areas of strength or weakness
and/or determination of ability or
capacity in associated areas).
• Comorbidity: The coexistence of two or more
disorders, diseases, or pathologic processes
that are not necessarily related.
• Diagnosis: Identification and categorization of
impairment/dysfunction (i.e., determination
of presence and nature of disorder).
• Differential diagnosis: Distinguishing between
two or more conditions presenting with similar
symptoms or attributes.
• Evaluation: Interpretation of assessment data,
evidence, and related information.
• Intervention: Comprehensive, therapeutic
treatment and management of a disorder.
• Management: Procedures (e.g., compensatory
strategies, environmental modifications) targeted
toward reducing the effects of a disorder
and minimizing the impact of the deficits
that are resistant to remediation.
• Pansensory: Referring to higher level mechanisms
that are common to and that support
processing across all modalities.
• Prevention: Procedures targeted toward reducing
the likelihood that impairment will
develop.
• Reliability: The consistency, dependability,
reproducibility, or stability of a measure.
• Remediation/treatment: Procedures targeted
toward resolving the impairment.
• Screening: Procedures used to identify individuals
who are “at-risk” for an impairment.
• Validity: The degree to which a test measures
what it is intended to measure.