NCT04363580

Creation of Auditory Processing Disorder Screening Tool in French

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 16 (actual)
• Sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 13 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The objective of the study is to validate a screening tool for auditory processing disorder in children of 7 to 13 years old. This screening tool was created based on literature and combines a questionnaire and a mini-battery of tests composed of verbal and nonverbal assessments.

Detailed description

Hearing plays a vital role in the development of a child. Hearing is based on two main systems: the peripheral system and the central system. Peripheral hearing, which includes the outer, middle, and inner ear and the auditory nerve, can detect sound signals. For its part, the central system, which is composed of auditory structures from the auditory nerve to the brain, makes it possible to process these sound signals and to analyze them. Peripheral hearing damage will result in deafness while a problem in the central auditory system will be called auditory processing disorder. Peripheral deafness can be detected from birth through neonatal screening for deafness. The symptoms of an auditory processing disorder can easily be confused with those caused by attention deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity and a specific language disorder. Auditory processing disorder is often unknown in the medical and educational worlds, and children are referred late for consultation. In addition, the lack of French screening tests for auditory processing disorder and the long waiting lists for specialized consultations help to delay diagnosis and hinder early intervention. Auditory processing disorder affects about 2 to 3% of school-aged children. The objective of the study is to validate a screening tool for auditory processing disorder in children of 7 to 13 years old. This screening tool was created based on literature and combines a questionnaire and a mini-battery of tests composed of verbal and nonverbal assessments.

Conditions

• Auditory Processing Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Auditory processing disorder screening tool	Screening tool : a questionnaire completed by the parents and the child's teacher and a mini-battery of tests composed of verbal and nonverbal assessments. Questions for parents are grouped into four sections: * Reference pattern and portrait of the child. * Auditory history. * History of speech and language development. * School history. The teacher questionnaire has seven sections: * Portrait of the child. * Reading and writing. * Speaking. * Mathematics. * Music. * Memory. * Listening skills and understanding: * Concentration and organization. * Environment. Mini-battery of tests: * Dichotic Numeric Listening Test. * Identification test of 15 patterns of frequency-varying sounds at each ear. * Test of 10 monosyllables in noise per ear. * Auditory memory test by measuring the range of figures (instead of words in order to reduce the contribution of language processing).

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-09-18
• Primary completion: 2021-05-15
• Completion: 2021-05-15
• First posted: 2020-04-27
• Last updated: 2026-03-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France