[Auditory processing in children with cerebrovascular disease].
BACKGROUND
cerebrovascular disease (CVD) during childhood is a rare condition; its short, medium and long-term characteristics deserve further investigation. The application of behavioral techniques may improve clinical characterization, thus rendering more efficient therapeutic planning and control.


OBJECTIVE
to describe the audiological manifestations in a child with CVD in two distinct moments of clinical follow-up.


METHODS
the child, with a confirmed diagnosis of a single and unilateral episode of CVD, presenting satisfactory cognition and language skills, was submitted to a battery of conventional and auditory processing tests, which included a simplified evaluation as well as monotic, dichotic, and temporal processing tests. The obtained data was paired with those of a normal right-handed child, of the same gender, age and socio-cultural level.


RESULTS
results indicate impairments in auditory memory as well as in selective attention during binaural separation and integration tasks for verbal and non-verbal stimuli.


CONCLUSIONS
clinical development, although favorable, was below the average expected for the same age when compared to the control. The prospective evaluation of a child with DCV permitted the characterization of the auditory behavior, the definition of its parameters as well as the development of the audiological characteristics.
Elias
Karla Maria Ibrahim da Freiria
KM
Departamento de Neurologia, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas. karla@fcm.unicamp.br
Santos
Maria Francisca Colella Dos
MF
Ciasca
Sylvia Maria
SM
Moura-Ribeiro
Maria Valeriana Leme de
MV
D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D001308:Auditory Perceptual Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002648:Child; D004007:Dichotic Listening Tests; D006801:Humans; D007361:Intelligence Tests; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male