Related Experiment Video
Updated: Aug 22, 2026
Systematic Hearing Performance Evaluation Process for Adolescents with Cochlear Implantation at Early Ages
Published on: March 24, 2023
[Auditory abilities in children with cleft lip and/or palate according to Fisher's]
C G Cayres Minardi1, A C Fernandes Souza, M Paranhos Netto
1Curso de Fonoaudiología FOB/USP.
Aim:
Patients with cleft palate and/or lip have similar behaviors to those with auditory processing disorders (APD), then the aim of this study was to investigate auditory abilities in the population with cleft lip/palate.
Material And Methods:
100 children between 7 and 12 years old with cleft and 65 between 6 and 10 years old without it. Conventional audiological evaluations such as pure tone, word discrimination audiometry and acoustic immittance measures. A questionnaire (Fisher) was given to parents, with 25 items about behaviors found in children with APD.
Results:
100% of children with cleft lip/palate showed some indicative behaviors of APD.
Conclusion:
There was significant occurrence of suggestive behaviors of APD, what points out the importance of inclusion of auditory processing tests in evaluation of children with cleft lip/palate.
