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Assessment of children with suspected auditory processing disorder: a factor analysis study

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>2014
<mark>Journal</mark>Ear and Hearing
Issue number3
Volume35
Number of pages11
Pages (from-to)295-305
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

To identify the factors that may underlie the deficits in children with listening difficulties, despite normal pure-tone audiograms. These children may have auditory processing disorder (APD), but there is no universally agreed consensus as to what constitutes APD. The authors therefore refer to these children as children with suspected APD (susAPD) and aim to clarify the role of attention, cognition, memory, sensorimotor processing speed, speech, and nonspeech auditory processing in susAPD. It was expected that a factor analysis would show how nonauditory and supramodal factors relate to auditory behavioral measures in such children with susAPD. This would facilitate greater understanding of the nature of listening difficulties, thus further helping with characterizing APD and designing multimodal test batteries to diagnose APD.