Medicine and Health

Auditory Discrimination-A Missing Piece of Speech and Language Development: A Study on 6-9-Year-Old Children with Auditory Processing Disorder

A. Guzek and K. Iwanicka-pronicka

Discover groundbreaking insights into auditory discrimination in children! This study by Anna Guzek and Katarzyna Iwanicka-Pronicka reveals that children with auditory processing disorder perform significantly worse than typically developing peers, challenging assumptions about phoneme acquisition and highlighting the need for tailored diagnostic assessments.

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Abstract

This study assessed auditory discrimination in 366 children (aged 6-9 years) with normal peripheral hearing: 220 with auditory processing disorder (APD) and 146 typically developing (TD) children. Speech discrimination was tested using a phoneme discrimination test (PDT), and pure-tone discrimination using a frequency pattern test (FPT). Children with APD performed significantly worse on both tests than TD children. Even 9-year-old APD children performed worse than 6-year-old TD children, suggesting that auditory discrimination continues to develop beyond the acquisition of phonemes and that PDT and FPT should be included in APD diagnostic assessments for developing individualized therapeutic programs.

Publisher

Brain Sciences

Published On

Apr 03, 2023

Authors

Anna Guzek, Katarzyna Iwanicka-Pronicka

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