Auditory Comprehension

The cognitive and linguistic ability to understand spoken language in real time, including recognising words, parsing grammar, holding clauses in working memory, and integrating meaning across sentences. Frequently impaired in people living with aphasia, age-related hearing loss, developmental language disorder, and some neurodivergent conditions. Accessibility supports include slower or regularised pacing, transcripts with word-level highlighting, summaries, glossary lookups, and reduced background noise.