Introdução: A estimulação elétrica gerada pelo Implante Coclear (IC) pode ser capaz de melhorar a sincronia neural e contribuir para o desenvolvimento das habilidades auditivas de sujeitos portadores de Neuropatia Auditiva/Dessincronia Auditiva (NA/DA). Objetivo: Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo avaliar o desempenho auditivo e as características do Potencial de Ação Composto Eletricamente Evocado no Nervo Auditivo Evocado Eletricamente (ECAP) em um grupo de 18 crianças portadoras de NA/DA e usuárias de IC, comparando os resultados obtidos com um grupo controle de crianças usuárias de IC portadoras de deficiência auditiva neurossensorial (DANS). Método: A avaliação da percepção auditiva foi composta pela determinação dos limiares tonais em campo livre e a realização de testes de percepção de fala. Para a avaliação das características do ECAP, foram realizadas as medidas de limiar e amplitude da resposta neural, bem como a curva de crescimento da amplitude e a função de recuperação do nervo auditivo na freqüência de estimulação de 80Hz. Para os sujeitos pertencentes ao grupo da NA/DA, os valores de limiar e amplitude da resposta neural foram também registrados na freqüência de estimulação de 35Hz. Resultados: Diferenças estatisticamente significantes não foram encontradas no desenvolvimento das habilidades auditivas entre o grupo de crianças portadoras de NA/DA e o grupo controle. As características do registro do ECAP não apresentaram diferenças estatisticamente significantes nos dois diferentes grupos e não foram observadas modificações estatisticamente significantes nas características do potencial com a utilização da freqüência de estimulação de 35Hz no grupo de sujeitos portadores de NA/DA. Conclusões: O IC caracterizou-se como um efetivo recurso para o desenvolvimento das habilidades auditivas em 94% dos sujeitos portadores de NA/DA avaliados ao longo do estudo. Os benefícios na percepção auditiva observados, bem como a possibilidade do registro do ECAP demonstraram que a estimulação elétrica foi capaz de compensar a alteração da sincronia neural decorrente da NA/DA Diante da heterogeneidade existente, uma conduta clínica comum a todos os sujeitos portadores de NA/DA ainda não pode ser definida e adotada. A avaliação criteriosa de cada caso de maneira específica deve ser realizada no momento anterior à indicação cirúrgica. / Introduction: The electrical stimulation generated by the Cochlear Implant (CI) may improve the neural synchrony and hence contribute to the development of auditory skills in patients with Auditory Neuropathy / Auditory Dys-synchrony (AN/AD). Goal: The goal of the research was to evaluate the auditory performance and the characteristics of the electrically evoked compound action potential (ECAP) in a group of 18 cochlear implants recipients with AN/AD. The results were compared with the control group composed of cochlear implants recipients with sensorial hearing loss. Method: The auditory perception was evaluated by sound field thresholds and speech perception tests. To evaluate ECAP\'s characteristics, the threshold and amplitude of neural response together with the amplitude growth and recovery functions were evaluated at 80Hz stimulation rate. For the patients with AN/AD, the threshold and amplitude of neural response were also evaluated at 35Hz stimulation rate. Results: No significant statistical variance for the development of auditory skills was found when comparing children with AN/AD and the control group. The ECAP\'s characteristics variance between the patients with AN/AD and the control group at 80Hz stimulation rate as well as at 35Hz stimulation rate were also not statistically significant. Conclusion: The CI was seen as an efficient resource to develop auditory skills in 94% of the AN/AD patients considered by the research. The auditory perception benefits as well as the possibility to\' measure the ECAP showed that the electrical stimulation could compensate the neural dys-synchrony caused by the AN/AD. However, a unique clinical procedure cannot be proposed at this point. Therefore, a careful and complete evaluation of each AN/AD patient before recommending the Cochlear Implant is advised.

O trabalho teve como objetivo geral discutir a construção de listas de palavras para uso na medida do teste de Limiar de Reconhecimento da Fala (LRF) em crianças com idade entre 5 e 7 anos. O grupo de sujeitos foi constituído por alunos de pré-escola e da 1ª série do ensino fundamental de escolas da rede pública da cidade de Itatiba, São Paulo, otologicamente normais. O trabalho foi estruturado em 3 etapas. A primeira etapa relacionou-se com a construção das listas de palavras experimentais trissilábicas paroxítonas denominadas de LE1 e 2, constituídas a partir de um levantamento feito com programas e filmes infantis de maior audiência pelos grupos etários estudados. Das 672 palavras obtidas, 35 trissílabas paroxítonas foram selecionadas, formando duas listas em ordem aleatória. As listas LRS 1 e 2 foram utilizadas para comparação e retiradas de Russo e Santos (1993), seguindo os mesmos critérios de elaboração. Na segunda etapa, as listas de palavras foram gravadas em estúdio profissional, por um locutor do sexo feminino nativo do português brasileiro. Na terceira etapa o material desenvolvido foi aplicado em um grupo de 94 crianças de 5 a 7 anos de ambos os sexos. Os resultados, na análise quantitativa, não mostraram diferenças estatisticamente significantes entre as variáveis listas, orelhas, faixa etária, ordem de apresentação e sexo. Os resultados do LRF (em deciBel Nível de Sensação) obtidos com as listas LE e LRS situaram-se entre -10 e +15dBNS com média de 4,3dBNS para orelha direita e 4,4dBNS para orelha esquerda. Os dados indicaram que as listas desenvolvidas para a obtenção do LRF, em crianças na faixa etária do estudo, são válidas para este fim. A análise qualitativa indicou algumas das estratégias utilizadas pelos sujeitos no reconhecimento auditivo das palavras da lista E1. / This study provides a discussion about a word list construction to use in the speech recognition threshold. The chosen subjects are pre and first year school children from the Basic Education at public schools in Itatiba, São Paulo – Brazil, otologically normal. The study comprises three stages. The first one was the construction of paroxytone trisyllabic word lists called LE1 e 2, consisted of a survey done with juvenile programs and films of bigger audience by the aged studied groups. From the 672 words, 35 paroxytone trisyllables were selected, forming two lists in a random order. The LRS 1 and 2 were used for comparison and they were got from Russo e Santos (1993), following the same criteria. In the second stage, the word lists were recorded in a professional studio by a native speaker. In the third stage, the developed material was applied in a group with 94 children. The results didn’t show differences statistically significant among the varied list, the ear, the aged group, the presentation order and the sex. The SRT (dBNS) results obtained with the LE and the LRS lists were placed among -10 and +15 dBNS. The data indicated that the developed lists to obtain the SRT in these children are valid.

INTRODUÇÃO. A linguagem oral é a forma mais efetiva de comunicação em nossa sociedade. A audição é fundamental para o desenvolvimento da linguagem oral. A partir da década de 90 o implante coclear (IC), apesar de não substituir a função coclear, vêm trazendo resultados expressivamente benéficos para o desenvolvimento da linguagem oral de crianças deficientes auditivas sensórioneural severa/profunda pré-lingual. Os estudos atuais têm se preocupado em identificar os fatores que levam algumas crianças com deficiência pré-lingual usuárias de IC a alcançar um desempenho de linguagem oral melhor do que as outras. Entre outros fatores, sabe-se que quanto antes a criança recebe o implante e conforme vai aumentando o tempo de uso do implante o desempenho melhora.Poucos estudos se voltam para a caracterização da linguagem oral dessas crianças. Objetivos: 1. Avaliar a linguagem oral, tanto a compreensão quanto a expressão, das crianças usuárias de IC há 5 anos; 2. Avaliar a relação entre o desempenho de compreensão oral com o desempenho de expressão oral das crianças usuárias de IC há 5 anos; 3. Avaliar a relação entre o desempenho de linguagem oral e o índice reconhecimento de fala dessas crianças; Método: 27 crianças deficientes auditivas pré-linguais usuárias de IC com tempo de uso do IC variando de 5a a 5a11m foram avaliadas por meio da Reynell Developmental Scales II (RDLS) composta pela Escala de Compreensão (C) e Escala de Expressão (E). Foi realizada a análise quantitativa descritiva das pontuações nas seções de C e E. Foi realizada calculado o coeficiente de correlação de Pearson entre as medianas das pontuações totais na Escala de Compreensão e de Expressão de cada indivíduo. Foi calculado o coeficiente de correlação de Spearman entre a pontuação na C e índice de reconhecimento de fonemas; pontuação na E e índice de reconhecimento de fonemas; pontuação RDLS total e índice de reconhecimento de fonemas. RESULTADOS: As medianas das pontuações indicaram que tanto em C como em E houve maior dificuldade em relação às sentenças com maior extensão, palavras de sentido gramatical, palavras e sentenças mais independentes do contexto imediato e mais facilidade em relação à palavras de sentido lexical e mais dependentes do conexto; houve correlação positiva e estatisticamente significante entre C e E. Houve relação estatisticamente significante entre o índice de reconhecimento de fonemas de C, E e pontuação total da RDLS. CONCLUSÕES:Apesar da variabilidade encontrada, as crianças implantadas há cinco anos apresentam dificuldade em relação ás palavras de sentido gramatical e frases com maiores extensões, bem como palavras e frases que não dependem do contexto imediato. A linguagem oral das crianças implantadas há cinco anos está aquém da esperada para a idade cronológica das mesmas. Não houve discrepância entre compreensão e expressão, entretanto mais estudos são necessários para que se determine a superioridade de uma ou de outra. A correlação entre o índice de reconhecimento de fonemas e o desempenho de linguagem comprova a importância da audição para a linguagem oral / INTRODUCTION. The oral language is the most effective form of communication in our society. Hearing is the primary method for the oral language development. Even though the Cochlear Implant (CI) does not replace the Cochlear Function, since the 90´s it has bringing results that are significant beneficial to the oral language development of children with prelingual severe to profound hearing loss. Current researches have been concerned identifying the factors that make some children users of IC with pre-lingual hearing loss to achieve better oral language performance than the others. Besides that, it is known that if the child is implanted soon and the time of use increases, the performance will improve. Few studies turn to the characterization of these children oral language, which is a deviant process in relation to normality, but still needs more research. OBJECTIVES: 1. Evaluate both the comprehensive and expressive language of children that have been Cochlear Implanted for 5 years. 2. Assess the relationship between the comprehensive and expressive language performances of this population. 3. Assess the relationship between the oral language performance and their speech perception. METHOD: 27 children with pre lingual hearing loss that have been implanted for 5 to 5 years and 11 months were evaluated by the Reynell Developmental Scales II ( RDLS) composed by the Comprehensive Scale (C) and Expression Scale (E). The quantitative description of the scores in the sections C and E was performed and the Pearson correlation coefficient between the median scores in the total scale of comprehension and expression of each individual was calculated. In addition, the Spearman correlation coefficient between the score in the C index and phonemes recognition, the score on section E and the score for phonemes recognition, RDLS total score index and phonemes recognition were also calculated. RESULTS: The median scores demonstrated that both on C and E there were greater difficulty with longer sentences, the grammatical meaning of words, words and sentences that were more independent of immediate context. The lexical meaning of words with more context were more straightforward. There were a positive statistically correlation between C and E. There was a significant statistically relationship between the rate of phonemes recognition of C, E and the total score of RDLS. CONCLUSIONS: Despite the established variability, the children that were implanted five years ago have found difficulties with the grammatical meaning of words, longer phrases, and words and phrases that do not depend on the immediate context. The oral language of children implanted five years ago is inferior if compared with children with the same chronological age. There was similarity between expression and comprehension, however, more studies are required to determine whether the superiority of one or other. The correlation between the speech perception and the language performance demonstrates the importance of hearing for oral language development

Orientador: Maria Valeriana Leme de Moura-Ribeiro / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-12T13:23:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Elias_KarlaMariaIbraimdaFreiria_D.pdf: 4108158 bytes, checksum: 2046ae2bbb7de3b3c5354d1752b098df (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Na infância e adolescência, a doença cerebrovascular (DCV) constitui condição rara, de etiologia variada, em que a evolução a curto e longo prazo tem merecido esclarecimentos. Em anos recentes, a clássica impressão de recuperação favorável após eventos vasculares nesta população tem sido esmaecida com a verificação de variáveis índices de alterações comportamentais, cognitivas, lingüísticas e de aprendizagem. No referente ao processamento das informações auditivas o conhecimento é ainda bastante restrito e, diante desta constatação, nos propusemos a realizar ampla investigação desta função, através da aplicação de testes de categorias diversas e estabelecer o grau de competência auditiva na dependência das características lesionais. Assim, o principal objetivo desde estudo, foi avaliar as habilidades de processamento auditivo (central) em crianças e adolescentes acometidos pela DCV, grupo propósito (GP), comparando-os, com grupo controle (GC), composto por crianças destras, de mesmo sexo, idade e nível sócio-econômico das crianças do GP. Na avaliação audiológica foram aplicados os seguintes testes: localização sonora em cinco direções, memória seqüencial verbal e não-verbal, na categoria de avaliação simplificada; teste de fala com ruído e de fala filtrada, na categoria dos monóticos de baixa redundância; dicótico não-verbal, consoante-vogal, dicótico de dígitos e dicótico de dissílabos alternados (staggered spondaic word test/SSW) na dos dicóticos; padrão de freqüência e de duração, na de testes de processamento temporal. Os dados foram analisados através de metodologia estatística pertinente - teste exato de Fisher e Wilcoxon - e revelaram que o desempenho dos grupos foi similar nos testes de localização sonora e fala com ruído. Nos demais testes, o GP apresentou desempenho significativamente inferior ao GC, com alterações nas habilidades auditivas de fechamento, memória, atenção seletiva e processamento temporal. Os testes de fala filtrada e de padrão de duração foram, respectivamente, mais sensíveis que os testes de fala com ruído e padrão de freqüência, na identificação de alterações nas habilidades de fechamento auditivo e de ordenação temporal. Adicionalmente, a presença da lesão e não suas características foram determinantes para a definição do grau da competência auditiva. Através do presente estudo, pudemos ampliar o conhecimento evolutivo da DCV infantil ao demonstrar comprometimento em habilidades específicas de processamento auditivo. / Abstract: In childhood and adolescence the cerebrovascular disease (CVD) is a rare condition, of varied etiology, where the clarification of short and long term disease progression has been sought. The classical idea of favorable recovery following vascular events in this population has been obscured by the demonstration of variable levels of behavioral, cognitive, linguistic and learning variables. There is scarce knowledge on the processing of auditory information, therefore we have decided to perform a thorough investigation on this function by conducting tests of several categories, and to establish the degree of audiological competence that depends on the lesion characteristics. Therefore, the main purpose of the present study was the assessment of the central auditory processing abilities in children and adolescents suffering from CVD, purpose group (PG), which was compared to the control group (CG) formed by right-handed children, of the same sex, age and socioeconomic level as of the children of the PG. In audiological assessment the following tests were applied: sound location in five directions, verbal and non-verbal sequential memory, in the simplified category evaluation; test of speech in noise and filtered speech in the category of low redundancy monotics; non-verbal dichotic, consonant-vowel, dichotic digit and staggered spondaic word test/SSW in the dichotic category; frequency and duration pattern, in the temporal processing tests. The data were analyzed through the pertinent statistical methodology - Wilcoxon and Fisher's exact test - and revealed that the GP's performance was similar to the GC's in the sound location and speech in noise tests. In the other tests, the CVD group showed a significantly lower performance than the normal children, with alterations in auditory closure abilities, memory, selective attention and temporal processing. The tests of filtered speech and duration pattern were respectively more sensitive than the tests of speech in noise and frequency pattern, in the identification of alterations in auditory closure and temporal ordering. In this study the presence of lesion rather than its characteristics was decisive for the definition of the degree of audiological competence. We have increased our knowledge of progression of CVD in children by demonstrating the implications of this condition in specific abilities of auditory processing. / Doutorado / Ciencias Biomedicas / Doutor em Ciências Médicas

Responses of six severely language delayed (SLD) children were obtained on three measures of central auditory processing and one measure of language proficiency. The results of these measures were compared to the results obtained from six normal-hearing children, matched in age and Performance IQ on the WISC-R. The 12 children were tested with the Pitch Pattern Sequence Test (PPST), the Dichotic Digit Tests (DDT), and the Pediatric Speech Intelligibility Test (PSI). Differences in the central auditory abilities as well as the history of each child were presented in .a case study format. The results of the history information demonstrated no unusual problems among these 12 subjects. Ten out of 12 subjects demonstrated abnormal results on at least one measure of the central auditory battery.

D.Ed. (Educational Psychology) / This study is concerned with the acquisition of language skills by the learning disabled child. A thorough literature survey was conducted, in which the acquisition of both the oral language and the written word were investigated. The survey reveals the importance of certain prerequisites for the mastering of language skills. The research also identifies the causes for and consequences of delay in language development. As a result of this survey, the importance of auditory perceptual skills in the acquisition of reading and spelling performances is emphasized in the design of a model for language acquisition. This survey was conducted to design a model for the acquisition of language skills, with special emphasis on auditory perception. Auditory perception skills are used as aids in the reading process to acquire the necessary skills to decode unfamiliar words in the text to be read. In the design of the model attention was given to the relevant and important matters as described in the literature, as well as to some didactical principles in the teaching of the learning disabled. The design of the model is based on the guidelines as deduced from the description as found in the literature, as well as the investigator's own empirical experience for a number of years in the teaching of identified learning disabled children in an aid class of the TED. This model was applied with great success on a group basis in an aid class at a primary school. It was also successfully applied on a great number of children in need of individual remedial teaching. The applicability and value of the model are verified by an ideographic survey conducted on the pupils in the aid class. A case study on six pupils is described in the thesis and the expected improvement in reading and spelling performance is verified.

This study aimed to test the effectiveness of classroom translations of some laboratory procedures for teaching simple auditory discriminations to learners with developmental disabilities. Three participants with autism and mental retardation were trained to make topographically distinct responses in the presence of two different stimuli, either a pure tone and silence, or two tones. A portable electronic piano keyboard was used to produce tones. Delayed prompt and differential reinforcement procedures were used to teach the responses. None of the participants performed the discriminations accurately without prompting despite numerous revisions to the procedures.

Audiologists are challenged with various neurological diseases, such as Multiple Sclerosis. This disease causes demyelination of the white matter in the central nervous system resulting in desynchronisation of neural impulses. Despite controversy in the literature many studies illustrated some degree of auditory involvement associated with this disease. The auditory brainstem response has dominated the field during the assessment of the auditory system of patients with Multiple Sclerosis. Although this objective test procedure is useful during the assessment of the auditory nerve on a brainstem level, it reveals its own set of limitations when used in isolation as a single test procedure. A multiple test battery approach has shown promise in addressing the limitations of any single test procedure. This approach aims to assess the auditory nervous system of patients with Multiple Sclerosis on different levels (sensory and neural). The aim of the current study was to determine the effectiveness of a clinically appropriate battery of test procedures during the assessment of the auditory nervous system of 25 adult subjects with Multiple Sclerosis. The subjects were divided into two groups: Group 1 consisted of fifteen (15) subjects without a history of noise exposure, whereas the ten (10) subjects in Group 2 had previously been exposed to noise. A combined experimental-descriptive research design was selected in order to describe both the qualitative and quantitative results obtained during the study. The following test procedures were included in the test battery: • A self-assessment questionnaire allowing subjects to report on hearing abilities, related auditory-vestibular symptoms and communicative competence during every day life; • Puretone audiometry, distortion product otoacoustic emissions as well as the cochlear microphonic; and • Auditory brainstem response recording using both the rarefaction and condensation click polarities consecutively. The results indicated that a high percentage of subjects experienced vestibular symptoms such as dizziness and vertigo by the time the study was conducted. The presence of tinnitus and hearing difficulties were uncommon among subjects. Despite this, more than half of the subjects experienced difficulty with communication in the presence of background noise. Puretone audiometry demonstrated that some of the subjects presented with mild high-frequency hearing losses. However other configurations with impaired hearing thresholds were also observed. Most of the subjects’ auditory brainstem response recordings displayed abnormalities using either the rarefaction or condensation click polarity. The use of the condensation click polarity displayed more ABR abnormalities compared to the rarefaction click polarity. Several subjects displayed additional cochlear involvement while a smaller percentage of subjects presented only with neural involvement. / Dissertation (M (Communication Pathhology))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology / unrestricted

Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document / Dissertation (M (Communication Pathology))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology / unrestricted

Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document / Dissertation (MA (Communication Pathology))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology / unrestricted