1. Screening for Auditory Processing Disorder in French-Speaking School-Age Children: A Pilot Study.
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Duquette-Laplante, Fauve, Duval, Jérémie, Pelletier, Marie-Pier, Darche, Patricia, Fuente, Adrian, and Jutras, Benoît
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PILOT projects , *SPEECH perception , *EXPERIMENTAL design , *PHONOLOGICAL awareness , *RESEARCH methodology , *RESEARCH methodology evaluation , *AUDIOLOGY , *WORD deafness , *PSYCHOMETRICS , *PSYCHOLOGICAL tests , *AUDIOMETRY , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *SENSITIVITY & specificity (Statistics) , *SPEECH , *OUTPATIENT services in hospitals , *LONGITUDINAL method , *CHILDREN - Abstract
Objectives: A few clinical screening tools for auditory processing disorder (APD) are currently available. However, most of these tools are in English and cannot be used to screen individuals with a first language other than English. This study aimed to develop an APD screening test battery in French and to assess its psychometric properties in detecting school-age children at risk of APD. Method: Prior to their complete audiological APD assessment, 53 children (7-12 years old) were recruited from an audiology clinic. The APD assessment lasted between 2 and 3 hr, including 15-20 min for the screening test battery. The screening test battery was composed of four behavioral subtests and two questionnaires (parent and teacher). Results: When combined, two among the four behavioral subtests showed a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 80%. Conclusion: The newly developed screening tool could help reduce the number of unnecessary APD assessments, therefore allowing early diagnosis in children with APD and increasing their chances of receiving adequate intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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