Monotic auditory processing disorder tests in the older adult population.
The purpose of this study was to determine if peripheral hearing loss of varying degrees in elderly subjects affected performance on monotic auditory processing disorder (APD) tests. A battery of monotic APD tests was administered to a group of well-educated and high-functioning older adults who wer...
| Published in: | Journal of the American Academy of Audiology Vol. 19; no. 4; pp. 293 - 309 |
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| Format: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Thieme Medical Publishing Inc.
Apr2008
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=105669320&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 105669320 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10500545 9OC jtl: Journal of the American Academy of Audiology issn: 10500545 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Apr2008 vid: 19 iid: 4 pid: 2811 pub: Thieme Medical Publishing Inc. place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 105669320 34010805 2009990767 10.3766/jaaa.19.4.3 NLM18795469 105669320 ppf: 293 ppct: 16 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Monotic auditory processing disorder tests in the older adult population. aug: au: Cox LC McCoy SL Tun PA Wingfield A affil: Department of Otolaryngology, Boston University School of Medicine, 720 Harrison Avenue, Suite 601, Boston, MA 02118; clcox@bu.edu sug: subj: Auditory Perceptual Disorders Evaluation Presbycusis Acoustic Impedance Tests Aged Aged, 80 and Over Audiometry, Pure-Tone Clinical Assessment Tools Cognition Evaluation Descriptive Statistics Female Funding Source Hearing Loss, Sensorineural Male Multivariate Analysis of Variance Otoacoustic Emissions, Evoked Post Hoc Analysis Psychological Tests Speech Discrimination Tests Speech Perception Step-Wise Multiple Regression Human Aged: 65+ years Aged, 80 & over Female Male ab: The purpose of this study was to determine if peripheral hearing loss of varying degrees in elderly subjects affected performance on monotic auditory processing disorder (APD) tests. A battery of monotic APD tests was administered to a group of well-educated and high-functioning older adults who were divided into three subgroups based on hearing acuity but similar in age: (1) normal hearing out to 4000 Hz with a slight high-frequency slope above that point, (2) normal hearing in the speech range but greater high-frequency loss (sloping configuration), and (3) hearing loss in both the low and high frequencies (low/high). The findings documented that subjects with normal hearing in the speech range performed well on all the APD tests. The subjects in the two hearing loss groups, however, performed more poorly on certain tests. The low/high loss subjects did significantly poorer than did the sloping subjects. These data suggest that low/high-frequency peripheral hearing loss is a factor for poor performance on certain monotic APD tests. Results further showed that when cognitive ability and presentation level are held constant, chronological age does not appear to be a contributing factor to performance on the majority of these monotic APD tests. If APD tests are to be administered to elder subjects, peripheral hearing loss configuration needs to be documented. For subjects with low/high-frequency losses, the tester needs to be aware that serious contamination of the results may occur. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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