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Speech perception capabilities in children several years after initial diagnosis of auditory processing disorders
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Speech perception capabilities in children several years after initial diagnosis of auditory processing disorders

Rachel Crum, Jennifer Padilla, Thierry Morlet, L. A. Greenwood, Jessica Loson, Sarah Zavala and Kyoko Nagao
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, v 138(3_Supplement), pp 1810-1810
01 Sep 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4933744

Abstract

This study focuses on the progress of speech perception capabilities in children with auditory processing disorder (APD) measured several years after the initial diagnosis. A recent longitudinal study showed listening and communication difficulties of children diagnosed with APD persist into adulthood (Del Zoppo, Sanchez, and Lind, 2015). In the current study, we examined the speech perception progress of 21 children selected from the Auditory Processing Disorder database of 255 school-aged children in the Mid-Atlantic region as having an initial diagnosis of APD and an APD reassessment at our facility several years later. Average age for initial assessment was 7.9 (7–10) years with the most recent APD evaluation ages 11.5 (9–16) years. Results show that 81% of the children still had auditory processing deficits in their most recent evaluations, 9% had only associated area issues, and 10% exhibited typical auditory processing performance. We found that average standardized scores for all tests, except auditory figure ground, collectively increased in the second assessment. These tests include: competing words, competing sentences, filtered words, composite scores, and phonemic synthesis. While the auditory processing skills of some children with APD are improving over time, some children still show impairment in several processing areas.

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