The effects of auditory training in children born prematurely

• Grant number: 09/11106-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2009
• End date: October 31, 2010
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Speech Therapy
• Principal Investigator: Alessandra Spada Durante
• Grantee: Mariana de Souza Pires
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo (FCMSCSP). Fundação Arnaldo Vieira de Carvalho. São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Children born pre-term with risk indicators for hearing loss should be monitored in auditory development. Recent studies have reported the association of auditory processing disorder associated with school and behavior disadvantage in this population. The audiological evaluation by objective methods of assessment, highlighting the auditory evoked potential and suppression of otoacoustic emissions, and behavioral tests of auditory temporal resolution can be used as an index of development of the auditory system, the perception of speech and auditory discrimination, as well as markers of performance following auditory training program. The objective of this work is verify the occurrence of possible changes in latency, amplitude and morphology in the records of the auditory evoked potentials of medium and long latency and the magnitude of suppression of otoacoustic emissions and performance tests of auditory temporal resolution in children from 8 to 14 years with gestational age below 34 weeks and risk indicators for hearing at birth after the formal program of auditory training (Musiek, Schochat, 1999). It will be completed three stages of research: initial assessment, formal auditory training and reassessment after 3 months. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DURANTE, ALESSANDRA SPADA; MARIANO, STEFANIE; PIRES, MARIANA DE SOUZA; PACHI, PAULO. School-Age Outcomes in Preterm Children Born with Risk Factors for Hearing Loss: Contralateral Suppression of Transient Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions. AUDIOLOGY AND NEUROTOLOGY EXTRA, v. 2, n. 1, p. 8-pg., 2012-01-01. (09/11106-9)