[Auditory processing and high frequency audiometry in students of São Paulo].
BACKGROUND
Auditory processing and auditory sensibility to high Frequency sounds.


OBJECTIVE
To characterize the localization processes, temporal ordering, hearing patterns and detection of high frequency sounds, looking for possible relations between these factors.


METHODS
32 hearing fourth grade students, born in city of São Paulo, were submitted to: a simplified evaluation of the auditory processing; duration pattern test; high frequency audiometry.


RESULTS
Three (9,4%) individuals presented auditory processing disorder (APD) and in one of them there was the coexistence of lower hearing thresholds in high frequency audiometry.


CONCLUSIONS
APD associated to an auditory sensibility loss in high frequencies should be further investigated.
Ramos
Cristina Silveira
CS
Fonoaudióloga, Mestre Distúrbios da Comunicaçâo Humana, pela Universidade Federal de São Paulo. ramoscri@hotmail.com
Pereira
Liliane Desgualdo
LD
D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone / Q000379:methods*; D001309:Auditory Threshold / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006316:Hearing Loss, High-Frequency / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D016014:Linear Models; D008297:Male; D017678:Sex Distribution