TY - JOUR
T1 - Complete evaluation of the child identified as a poor listener
AU - Grundfast, Kenneth M.
AU - Berkowitz, Robert G.
AU - Conners, C. Keith
AU - Belman, Paula
PY - 1991
Y1 - 1991
N2 - With increasing awareness among educators of the importance of early identification of hearing impairment, growing numbers of children are being referred for evaluation when a teacher or day care supervisor perceives that a child is having difficulty listening. Some children who manifest difficulty listening in a pre-school play group or the classroom may have conductive or sensorineural hearing loss, while others have normal hearing with an underlying and yet-to-be-detected behavioral or psychoeducational disorder. This report presents suggestions for evaluation of the child referred for difficulty listening. The otologist should consider that a child may have an attention deficit disorder when results of initial audiologic assessment indicate there is no hearing loss or when the degree of hearing loss appears to be small in relation to the degree of inattentiveness that has been observed. The features of Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Specific Developmental Disorder (SDD) are described, and illustrative case studies are presented. Clues to diagnosis are provided and a distinction between overlapping disorders is made.
AB - With increasing awareness among educators of the importance of early identification of hearing impairment, growing numbers of children are being referred for evaluation when a teacher or day care supervisor perceives that a child is having difficulty listening. Some children who manifest difficulty listening in a pre-school play group or the classroom may have conductive or sensorineural hearing loss, while others have normal hearing with an underlying and yet-to-be-detected behavioral or psychoeducational disorder. This report presents suggestions for evaluation of the child referred for difficulty listening. The otologist should consider that a child may have an attention deficit disorder when results of initial audiologic assessment indicate there is no hearing loss or when the degree of hearing loss appears to be small in relation to the degree of inattentiveness that has been observed. The features of Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Specific Developmental Disorder (SDD) are described, and illustrative case studies are presented. Clues to diagnosis are provided and a distinction between overlapping disorders is made.
KW - Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
KW - Childhood behavior disorder
KW - Hearing loss
KW - Office evaluation
KW - Otitis media
KW - Otolaryngologist
KW - Poor listener
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U2 - 10.1016/0165-5876(91)90061-F
DO - 10.1016/0165-5876(91)90061-F
M3 - Article
C2 - 1709922
AN - SCOPUS:0026083267
SN - 0165-5876
VL - 21
SP - 65
EP - 78
JO - International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
JF - International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
IS - 1
ER -