[Auditory abilities in children with cleft lip and/or palate according to Fisher's].
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.
Minardi
C G Cayres
CG
Curso de Fonoaudiología FOB/USP.
Souza
A C Fernandes
AC
Netto
M Paranhos
MP
Ulhôa
F M
FM
Feniman
M Ribeiro
MR
Campos
C Ferreira
CF
Cruz
M Sodário
MS
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