Auditory processing disorder x reading and writing difficulty: is there a relationship?

ABSTRACT The aim of this qualitative research is to analyze, in accordance with the socio-historical paradigm, correlations that have been established between written language, its appropriation processes and the auditory processing disorder (APD). As its methodology, a literature review is presented, plus a case report of a 12-year-old boy with diagnosis of APD and complaint of reading and writing difficulties. The results show that the predominant researches in the field of speech and language therapy make correlations between language and APD based on a conception of the brain as an organ developed in the margin of social practices, of the language as a code, and of the subject as a merely biological individual. Thus, the conclusion is that these correlations are reductionist and inconsistent and, therefore, cannot justify a direct relation between APD and written language.