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. 2022 Oct 3:77:100118.
doi: 10.1016/j.clinsp.2022.100118. eCollection 2022.

Central auditory processing in children after traumatic brain injury

Carolina Calsolari Figueiredo de Godoy  1 , Adriana Neves de Andrade  2 , Italo Suriano  3 , Carla Gentile Matas  4 , Daniela Gil  2
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Central auditory processing in children after traumatic brain injury

Carolina Calsolari Figueiredo de Godoy et al. Clinics (Sao Paulo). .

Abstract

Introduction: Traumatic brain injury can impair the central auditory pathways and auditory cortex. Hence, individuals who suffered a traumatic brain injury may be at risk of central auditory processing disorders, which can be identified with behavioral tests that assess central auditory function.

Objective: To characterize and compare the performance of children and adolescents with and without a history of traumatic brain injury in behavioral tests that assess central auditory processing.

Method: The sample comprised 8- to 18-year-old individuals of both sexes who suffered moderate or severe closed traumatic brain injury 3 to 24 months before their participation in the study and whose hearing thresholds were normal. These individuals were matched for sex and age with other subjects without a history of traumatic brain injury and submitted to behavioral assessment of the central auditory processing with special tests to assess hearing skills (namely, auditory closure, figure-ground, and temporal processing), selected according to their chronological age and response-ability.

Results: The study group performed statistically worse than the comparison group in auditory closure, figure-ground in verbal dichotic listening, and temporal ordering. The central auditory processing tests with abnormal results in the comparison group were different from those in the study group.

Conclusion: Central auditory processing disorders were identified in all subjects of the study group, especially involving auditory closure and temporal processing skills, in comparison with subjects without a history of traumatic brain injury.

Keywords: Auditory perceptual disorders; Child; Hearing; Hearing tests; Traumatic brain injury.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Comparison between the performances of both groups regarding the percentage of changes found in each auditory skill assessed.
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