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. 2016 Feb;71(2):62-8.
doi: 10.6061/clinics/2016(02)02.

The influence of (central) auditory processing disorder on the severity of speech-sound disorders in children

Nadia Vilela  1 , Tatiane Faria Barrozo  1 , Luciana de Oliveira Pagan-Neves  1 , Seisse Gabriela Gandolfi Sanches  1 , Haydée Fiszbein Wertzner  1 , Renata Mota Mamede Carvallo  1
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The influence of (central) auditory processing disorder on the severity of speech-sound disorders in children

Nadia Vilela et al. Clinics (Sao Paulo). 2016 Feb.

Abstract

Objective: To identify a cutoff value based on the Percentage of Consonants Correct-Revised index that could indicate the likelihood of a child with a speech-sound disorder also having a (central) auditory processing disorder .

Methods: Language, audiological and (central) auditory processing evaluations were administered. The participants were 27 subjects with speech-sound disorders aged 7 to 10 years and 11 months who were divided into two different groups according to their (central) auditory processing evaluation results.

Results: When a (central) auditory processing disorder was present in association with a speech disorder, the children tended to have lower scores on phonological assessments. A greater severity of speech disorder was related to a greater probability of the child having a (central) auditory processing disorder. The use of a cutoff value for the Percentage of Consonants Correct-Revised index successfully distinguished between children with and without a (central) auditory processing disorder.

Conclusions: The severity of speech-sound disorder in children was influenced by the presence of (central) auditory processing disorder. The attempt to identify a cutoff value based on a severity index was successful.

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Figure 1
Distribution of the children according to the number of impaired auditory skills associated with Percentage of Consonants Correct-Revised I (a) and Percentage of Consonants Correct-Revised N (b) values.
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Figure 2
ROC curves for the Percentage of Consonants Correct-Revised I (a) and the Percentage of Consonants Correct-Revised N (b) values.
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Figure 3
Box-plot graph of the distribution of the PCC-R index calculated for both the Percentage of Consonants Correct-Revised N and Percentage of Consonants Correct-Revised tasks for G1 and G2.
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