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Infant Auditory Processing and Event-related Brain Oscillations

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Auditory processing disorders: relationship to cognitive processes and underlying auditory neural integrity.

Prudence Allen¹, Chris Allan¹

¹National Centre for Audiology, Western University, Canada.

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

|December 28, 2013

Summary

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Auditory processing disorder (APD) diagnosis in children may require more than just behavioral tests. Objective measures like auditory brainstem responses are crucial for accurate identification and understanding APD's impact.

Keywords:

Acoustic reflexes Auditory brainstem responses Auditory processing disorder Children Cognitive skills Diagnostic audiology

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Area of Science:

Pediatric Audiology
Neuroscience
Developmental Psychology

Background:

Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) in children is a long-standing clinical concern.
Diagnostic criteria, cognitive links, and neural integrity assessment for APD remain debated.
There's a need for clearer understanding of APD in children.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the relationship between clinical APD diagnosis, cognitive abilities, and auditory neural integrity.
To compare behavioral APD tests with objective measures like acoustic reflex thresholds and auditory brainstem responses (ABR).
To examine cognitive correlates of APD in children.

Main Methods:

A repeated measures design was used with 63 children (7-17 years) reporting listening difficulties.
Children underwent behavioral auditory processing tests, cognitive assessments (intelligence, academic, language, memory, attention), and objective auditory function tests (acoustic reflexes, ABR).
Parental surveys on auditory and attention behavior were collected.

Main Results:

Forty children met the criteria for APD based on behavioral tests; 23 did not.
Children with APD showed similar intelligence scores but poorer performance on other cognitive measures compared to the non-APD group.
Abnormal auditory brainstem responses and acoustic reflex thresholds were common in both groups.

Conclusions:

Behavioral tests alone may be insufficient for accurate APD diagnosis in all children.
Physiologic measures (acoustic reflex, ABR) are vital indicators of auditory function and may reveal APD when behavioral tests do not.
Language proficiency appears to significantly influence performance on behavioral APD tests.