Attend to This: The Relationship between Auditory Processing Disorders and Attention Deficits
Attend to This: The Relationship between Auditory Processing Disorders and Attention Deficits
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DOI：
10.3766/jaaa.25.7.6
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发表时间：
2014-07-01
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Purdy, Suzanne C.
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作者：
Gyldenkaerne, Pia;Dillon, Harvey;Purdy, Suzanne C.
背景资料：临床诊断为听觉处理障碍（APD）的儿童通常被描述为容易分心和注意力不集中，导致一些研究人员提出APD可能是潜在的注意力困难或注意力障碍的一种亚型的结果。目的：本研究的目的是通过确定听觉和视觉持续注意任务的表现与研究设计：本研究是一个横断面相关研究学龄儿童。研究样本：参与者是一个临床组的101名儿童认为他们的父母或老师有听力困难，和一个控制组的18名儿童没有可疑的听力困难。所有儿童均为7-12 yearold.Data Collection and Analysis：所有儿童均通过了标准的外周听力学评估，并使用临床APD测试电池和阅读准确性，非语言智力，视觉和听觉连续性能tests.Results：有显着的相关性APD测试分数内除了掩蔽水平差值，这并不与任何其他措施显着。双耳分听数字和频率模式分数也与非语言智能和持续听觉和视觉注意力分数显著相关。在临床组中，APD测试组合和注意力测试均超出正常范围的儿童数量是仅APD测试组合或仅注意力测试超出正常范围的儿童数量的两倍。显着的预测阅读能力的频率模式，差距在噪音，和非语言智力scores.Conclusions：APD和注意力的措施之间的相关程度表明，虽然赤字AP和持续的注意力共同发生在一些儿童（超过预期的机会），这两种情况可能有类似的症状，他们是分开的，很大程度上是独立的条件。
Background: Children clinically diagnosed with auditory processing disorders (APDs) are often described as easily distracted and inattentive, leading some researchers to propose that APDs might be a consequence of underlying attention difficulties or a subtype of attention disorders.Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the link between AP and attention by determining the relationship between performance on an auditory and visual sustained attention task and performance on a common APD test battery.Research Design: This study was a cross-sectional correlation study of school-aged children.Study Sample: Participants were a clinical group of 101 children considered by their parents or teachers to have listening difficulties, and a control group of 18 children with no suspected listening difficulties. All children were 7-12 yr old.Data Collection and Analysis: All children passed a standard peripheral audiologic assessment and were assessed using a clinical APD test battery and reading accuracy, nonverbal intelligence, and visual and auditory continuous performance tests.Results: There were significant correlations within the APD test scores except for masking level difference values, which did not correlate significantly with any other measure. Dichotic Digit and Frequency Pattern scores also correlated significantly with Nonverbal Intslligence and Sustained Auditory and Visual Attention scores. Within the clinical group, there were twice as many children outside normal limits on both the APD test battery and the attention tests as there were children who were outside normal limits on only the APD test battery or only the attention tests. Significant predictors of reading ability were the Frequency Pattern, Gaps In Noise, and Nonverbal Intelligence scores.Conclusions: The degree of correlation between the APD and attention measures indicates that although deficits in both AP and sustained attention co-occur in some children (more than would be expected from chance alone), and the two conditions may have similar symptoms, they are separate, largely independent conditions.