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Auditory Frequency and Intensity Discrimination Ability of Cerebral Palsied Children
Author(s) -
FAIRES WESLEY L.,
LANKFORD SIDONIE E.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.3109/13682827609011293
Subject(s) - cerebral palsied , psychology , audiology , intensity (physics) , developmental psychology , cerebral palsy , medicine , psychiatry , physics , quantum mechanics
Summary The auditory frequency and intensity discrimination ability of 26 cerebral palsied subjects, ages seven through eleven years, was evaluated and compared to the auditory frequency and intensity discrimination ability of 58 normal subjects. The auditory frequency discrimination ability of the cerebral palsied subjects was significantly inferior to the ability of the normal subjects when comparison was made using both chronological and mental ages. The auditory intensity discrimination ability of the cerebral palsied subjects was significantly inferior to the normal subjects only when the groups were compared by chronological age. Comparison by mental age showed a nonsignificant difference. The results suggest that additional investigation should pursue the influence of inferior auditory frequency and intensity discrimination on the ability to process sophisticated language information.