Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-14T13:22:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 448919.pdf: 1156478 bytes, checksum: 273bff5ff5d31039dfc82f4f6f0fab2f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-01-18 / This research has been structured based on two articles: a systematic review of literature and an empirical article. The review included 46 articles from the past 10 years, in order to verify which dichotic listening tests were most applied on adolescent population and which was the most frequent purpose. Those were analysed based on four topics: age group, most commonly used tests, purpose of dichotic listening tests and the most frequent pathologies.It was found that 39.13% of studies used the Consonant-vowel Dichotic Test, often used to verify cerebral laterality.Digits Dichotic Test was present in 28.26% of the studies, followed by 15.21% of Alternate Dissyllable Test (SSW). The most frequent aim was to analyse auditory laterality (21.73%). As for the empirical study, it was attended by 40 adolescents aged between 9 and 15 years, all male. They were separated in two groups (Vulnerables and Resilients) based on their performance in the Resiliency Scale for Children and Adolescent, in order to verify their performance in tasks of Auditory Processing and subscales of resiliency. The results indicated a tendency toward better performance on the Resilient group subscales and, in Auditory Processing tasks, results were significant on Digits Dichotic Test for left ear (binaural integration skills) and right ear (binaural separation skills).Dichotic listening tasks are nowadays seen as a fast, efficient, easily applicable alternative for verifying the performance of individuals of all ages in tasks of hemispheric integration and brain lateralization. Recent studies have shown differences in auditory processing tests performance of socially vulnerable adolescents. Thus, it is extremely important to understand which impact adverse social situations may have on cognitive functioning and, thenceforth, determine the best tests to be applied when the objective is to investigate the inter-hemispheric communication, brain lateralization and behavioral pattern of the Central Auditory Processing. / A presente disserta??o ? estruturada a partir de dois artigos: uma revis?o sistem?tica da literatura e um artigo emp?rico. Foram inclu?dos na revis?o sistem?tica, 46 artigos dos ?ltimos 10 anos, a fim de verificar quais os testes de escuta dic?tica s?o mais utilizados na popula??o adolescente e qual o objetivo mais frequente. Estes foram analisados a partir de quatro caracter?sticas: faixa et?ria, testes mais utilizados, finalidade dos testes de escuta dic?tica e as patologias mais frequentes. Verificou-se que 39,13% dos estudos utilizaram o Teste Dic?tico Consoante-Vogal que frequentemente ? utilizado para verificar a lateralidade cerebral. O Teste Dic?tico de D?gitos esteve presente em 28,26% dos estudos seguido pelo Teste de Diss?labos Alternados (SSW), com 15,21%. Analisar a lateralidade auditiva foi o objetivo mais frequente com 21,73%. No estudo emp?rico, participaram da pesquisa, 40 indiv?duos com idade entre 9 e 15 anos, todos do sexo masculino. Os adolescentes foram separados em dois grupos (vulner?veis e resilientes) a partir do desempenho na Resiliency Scale for Children and Adolescent, com objetivo de verificar o desempenho destes adolescentes em tarefas de Processamento Auditivo e nas subescalas de resili?ncia. Os resultados apontaram uma tend?ncia de melhor desempenho nas subescalas do grupo mais resiliente e nas tarefas de Processamento Auditivo foram significativos os resultados do Teste Dic?tico de D?gitos da orelha esquerda (habilidade de integra??o binaural) e Teste Dic?tico de D?gitos da orelha direita (habilidade de separa??o binaural). Estudos recentes mostraram diferen?as no desempenho de adolescentes em situa??o de vulnerabilidade social em testes de processamento auditivo. ? importante compreender o impacto que situa??es sociais adversas podem ter sobre o funcionamento cognitivo. De uma forma geral, os resultados mostraram uma discreta rela??o entre os sujeitos mais vulner?veis ao risco social e as tarefas que exigem habilidades de Processamento Auditivo.