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Making Sense of Listening: The IMAP Test Battery
Published on: October 11, 2010
[Central auditory processing assessment]
1CHU Sart Tilman, Université de Liège, Service ORL, B-4000 Liège, Belgique. Laurentchp.demanez@chu.ulg.ac.be
Objective:
A battery of tests for central auditory processing assessment has been designed in French. This battery, BAC for Bilan Auditif Central (central auditory processing), consists of'fbur tyvpes of tests: A speech-in-noise test, a dichotic test, a temporal processing test and a binaural interaction test.
Material And Method:
Descriptive statistics were computed on data obtained from 668 subjects ranging from 5 to 85 years old.
Results:
Tests scores of the speech-in-noise test, the dichotic test and the binaural interaction test showed a normal distribution. Test scores of the temporal processing demonstrates a ceiling effect. Effcts of maturation and involution were clearly visible for all tests.
Conclusion:
The low correlation between scores obtained from the four tests pointed to the need for a battery ofseveral tests to assess central auditory processing.
