BACKGROUND: Auditory processing and auditory sensibility to high Frequency sounds. AIM: To characterize the localization processes, temporal ordering, hearing patterns and detection of high frequency sounds, looking for possible relations between these factors. METHOD: 32 hearing fourth grade students, born in city of São Paulo, were submitted to: a simplified evaluation of the auditory processing; duration pattern test; high frequency audiometry. RESULTS: Three (9,4%) individuals presented auditory processing disorder (APD) and in one of them there was the coexistence of lower hearing thresholds in high frequency audiometry. CONCLUSION: APD associated to an auditory sensibility loss in high frequencies should be further investigated.
BACKGROUND: Auditory processing and auditory sensibility to high Frequency sounds. AIM: To characterize the localization processes, temporal ordering, hearing patterns and detection of high frequency sounds, looking for possible relations between these factors. METHOD: 32 hearing fourth grade students, born in city of São Paulo, were submitted to: a simplified evaluation of the auditory processing; duration pattern test; high frequency audiometry. RESULTS: Three (9,4%) individuals presented auditory processing disorder (APD) and in one of them there was the coexistence of lower hearing thresholds in high frequency audiometry. CONCLUSION:APD associated to an auditory sensibility loss in high frequencies should be further investigated.
Authors: Mirian Aratangy Arnaut; Caroline Vieira Agostinho; Liliane Desgualdo Pereira; Luc Louis Maurice Weckx; Clara Regina Brandão de Avila Journal: Braz J Otorhinolaryngol Date: 2011-06