title: [Scan: performance profile of children with seven to eight years].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  the assessment of the auditory processing is a useful procedure to detect deficits not only related to sound reception but also to the analysis and organization of sound information, which in turn leads to a therapeutic process that aims at the maximization of communication.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  to characterize normal score patterns in a auditory processing screening test, applied in 40 children with ages varying from seven to eight years and to compare the results of the present study to those in the national literature.
  
  
  METHODS
  40 normal hearing children, students of regular schools of Bauru-SP, who presented no signs of auditory processing disorder, were evaluated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  the average scores obtained for children with seven years of age in the subtests of filtered speech, speech in noise and competing words were of 33.35, 32.5, and 71.8 respectively, and for children with eight years of age the scores were of 33.5, 34.5 and 79.9.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the significant statistical differences found between the analyzed studies indicate the need of studies involving a larger number of children of different geographic and social areas.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Fisiopatologia Experimental, HRAC, USP, Bauru. prilucas@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Priscila de Araújo
authors.initials: Pde A
authors.lastname: Lucas
authors.forename: Carolina Chibene
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Zacare
authors.forename: Orozimbo Costa
authors.initials: OC
authors.lastname: Alves Filho
authors.forename: Regina Célia Bortoleto
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Amantini
authors.forename: Maria Cecília
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Bevilacqua
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Zaidan
mesh_terms: D001308:Auditory Perceptual Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006309:Hearing / Q000502:physiology*; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000175:diagnosis; D006320:Hearing Tests; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D009622:Noise; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D013063:Speech Discrimination Tests; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D014825:Vocabulary