title: [Auditory processing in children with cerebrovascular disease].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Neurologia, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas. karla@fcm.unicamp.br
authors.forename: Karla Maria Ibrahim da Freiria
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Elias
authors.forename: Maria Francisca Colella Dos
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.forename: Sylvia Maria
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Ciasca
authors.forename: Maria Valeriana Leme de
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Moura-Ribeiro
mesh_terms: 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