title: [Auditory abilities in children with cleft lip and/or palate according to Fisher's].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Patients with cleft palate and/or lip have similar behaviors to those with auditory processing disorders (APD), then the aim of this study was to investigate auditory abilities in the population with cleft lip/palate.
  
  
  METHODS
  100 children between 7 and 12 years old with cleft and 65 between 6 and 10 years old without it. Conventional audiological evaluations such as pure tone, word discrimination audiometry and acoustic immittance measures. A questionnaire (Fisher) was given to parents, with 25 items about behaviors found in children with APD.
  
  
  RESULTS
  100% of children with cleft lip/palate showed some indicative behaviors of APD.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There was significant occurrence of suggestive behaviors of APD, what points out the importance of inclusion of auditory processing tests in evaluation of children with cleft lip/palate.
authors.affiliation: Curso de Fonoaudiología FOB/USP.
authors.forename: C G Cayres
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Minardi
authors.forename: A C Fernandes
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Souza
authors.forename: M Paranhos
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Netto
authors.forename: F M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Ulhôa
authors.forename: M Ribeiro
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Feniman
authors.forename: C Ferreira
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Campos
authors.forename: M Sodário
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Cruz
mesh_terms: D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D002648:Child; D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000150:complications*; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires