What does it mean to say that an autistic person has anauditory processing disorder?

At the same time, they paid attention to and understood music well.

However, they did not pay attention to changes in speech.

A young boy using an abacus with a blurry background

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Auditory Processing Disorder.

National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.