title: The influence of (central) auditory processing disorder on the severity of speech-sound disorders in children.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify a cutoff value based on the Percentage of Consonants Correct-Revised index that could indicate the likelihood of a child with a speech-sound disorder also having a (central) auditory processing disorder .
  
  
  METHODS
  Language, audiological and (central) auditory processing evaluations were administered. The participants were 27 subjects with speech-sound disorders aged 7 to 10 years and 11 months who were divided into two different groups according to their (central) auditory processing evaluation results.
  
  
  RESULTS
  When a (central) auditory processing disorder was present in association with a speech disorder, the children tended to have lower scores on phonological assessments. A greater severity of speech disorder was related to a greater probability of the child having a (central) auditory processing disorder. The use of a cutoff value for the Percentage of Consonants Correct-Revised index successfully distinguished between children with and without a (central) auditory processing disorder.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The severity of speech-sound disorder in children was influenced by the presence of (central) auditory processing disorder. The attempt to identify a cutoff value based on a severity index was successful.
authors.affiliation: Terapia Ocupacional, Departamento de Fisoterapia, Ciência da Comunicação & Transtornos, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo/, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Nadia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Vilela
authors.affiliation: Terapia Ocupacional, Departamento de Fisoterapia, Ciência da Comunicação & Transtornos, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo/, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Tatiane Faria
authors.initials: TF
authors.lastname: Barrozo
authors.affiliation: Terapia Ocupacional, Departamento de Fisoterapia, Ciência da Comunicação & Transtornos, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo/, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Luciana de Oliveira
authors.initials: Lde O
authors.lastname: Pagan-Neves
authors.affiliation: Terapia Ocupacional, Departamento de Fisoterapia, Ciência da Comunicação & Transtornos, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo/, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Seisse Gabriela Gandolfi
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Sanches
authors.affiliation: Terapia Ocupacional, Departamento de Fisoterapia, Ciência da Comunicação & Transtornos, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo/, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Haydée Fiszbein
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Wertzner
authors.affiliation: Terapia Ocupacional, Departamento de Fisoterapia, Ciência da Comunicação & Transtornos, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo/, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Renata Mota Mamede
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Carvallo
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007807:Language Tests / Q000592:standards; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013062:Speech Articulation Tests / Q000592:standards; D066229:Speech Sound Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology