INTRODUCTION The obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a respiratory disorder that occurs during sleep and it is relatively common in children. AIM The goal of this paper is to verify if there is a relationship between the obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and auditory processing. METHODS In order to do that, three groups of children ranging in age from 5 to 11 were studied, incl...

A new method for the objective assessment and prediction of the perceived audio quality is introduced. It represents an expansion of the speech quality measure qC , introduced by Hansen and Kollmeier (2000). It is based on a psychoacoustically validated, quantitative model of the ”effective” peripheral auditory processing by Dau et al. (1996a, 1997a). To evaluate the audio quality of a given di...

The aim of this research was to analyze temporal auditory processing and phonological awareness in school-age children with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS). Patient group (GI) consisted of 13 children diagnosed with BECTS. Control group (GII) consisted of 17 healthy children. After neurological and peripheral audiological assessment, children underwent a behavioral ...

This study was designed to evaluate maximum length sequences-auditory brainstem responses (MLS-ABR) in children with auditory processing disorders and to compare these results with a normal control group matched for age, intelligence, and gender. Although each waveform was analyzed for the presence of waves I, III, and V, the primary focus was wave V. Although absolute latency measures for wave...

Peripheral auditory neurons are tuned to single frequencies of sound. In the central auditory system, excitatory (or facilitatory) and inhibitory neural interactions take place at multiple levels and produce neurons with sharp level-tolerant frequency-tuning curves, neurons tuned to parameters other than frequency, cochleotopic (frequency) maps, which are different from the peripheral cochleoto...

As audiologists, we understand the important role hearing sensitivity plays in the development of reading skills. What we don’t always consider, however, is the effect of central auditory processing. The accurate representation of speech sounds is an important aspect of learning to link sounds with orthographic symbols, a fundamental building block of reading (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010;107[...

ABSTRACT Purpose: to verify the association between auditory assessment result and speech-language-hearing diagnosis in children adolescents. Methods: an observational, cross-sectional study based on analysis of medical records adolescents that received care at a outpatient center 2010 2014. Data sociodemographic characteristics, diagnosis, examination results, Auditory Processing Simplified As...