title: Central auditory processing in urban black children: a normative study.
abstract: A major issue concerning central auditory nervous system (CANS) evaluation is the appropriateness of the norms used. The use of currently available CANS norms in the evaluation of urban black children may result in inaccurate diagnosis. The subjects of this study were 40 black children who were intellectually, functionally, and behaviorally normal. Ages ranged from 7 years 4 months to 11 years 4 months. Candidates were identified by classroom teachers, then evaluated by specialists, using interviews, records, observation, and tests to identify "hidden" handicaps. Performance data were obtained on each of the age groups for the following CANS tests: time compressed speech; competing sentences; filtered speech; binaural fusion; alternating sentences; and staggered spondaic words. The results indicated that the performance of normal black children on the CANS test used in this study is not quantitatively nor qualitatively different from the performance of normal white subjects on the same tests.
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012016:Reference Values; D013063:Speech Discrimination Tests; D013067:Speech Perception; D013069:Speech Reception Threshold Test; D014505:Urban Population