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Introduction: In order to facilitate patient access and the clinical practice of Central Auditory Processing assessment, the online platform AudBility was created, which aims to screen auditory skills. Objective: To characterize the auditory skills in elderly users of Electronic Sound Amplification Devices (ESAD) through the online platform AudBility. Methods: Descriptive and analytical study, submitted to the ethics committee - n° 46378821.10000.0121. Participants were 15 elderly new ESAD users with moderately severe bilateral hearing loss, followed up by an Outpatient Hearing Health Service. The AudBility online program was installed on an HP notebook, model 256 G8, with supra-aural headphones, JBL, model Quantum 100. In AudBility, a self-perception questionnaire was applied and an assessment of location, figure-ground auditory skills was performed (binaural integration and separation), auditory closure, temporal ordering of duration and temporal resolution. Results: The average age of the elderly was 74 years and 8 years of education. The questionnaire's average self-perception was 35.92 points. The most impaired auditory skills were figure-ground in the binaural separation task (26% of correct answers) and binaural integration (30.92% of correct answers). Closing skills (84%) and sound localization (75.7%) were the ones with the best performance. Conclusion: It is concluded that the most altered skills were the figure-ground skills, which are extremely important for listening in unfavorable environments. AudBility is a promising instrument that can be used to monitor and assist in the rehabilitation process of elderly ESAD users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]