A child with normal hearing who has difficulty paying attention while listening,paying attention to the teacher when background noise is in the classroom,remembering information presented orally,and discriminating between similar sounding words may be demonstrating
A)a syntactic disorder.
B)aphasia.
C)apraxia of speech.
D)a central auditory processing disorder.

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The symptoms described indicate a central auditory processing disorder, which is a deficit in the processing of auditory information in the brain, not related to hearing loss. This can affect a child's ability to understand and follow spoken language in noisy environments, remember information presented orally, and distinguish between similar sounds. A syntactic disorder refers to difficulty with the rules of grammar and sentence structure, aphasia is a language disorder typically caused by brain damage, and apraxia of speech involves difficulty planning and coordinating the movements needed for speech production.

A Child with Normal Hearing Who Has Difficulty Paying Attention