Abstract

The purpose of this study was to compare the performance of "learning disabled" (LD) children and children with no identified learning problems on tests of central auditory function. Katz's Staggered.Spondaic Word (SSW) test and Willeford's Tests of Central Auditory Function (TCAF) were administered.

The groups consisted of twenty-one LD children (experimental) and twenty-one children with no identified learning problems (control). The groups were matched for age, sex, socioeconomic background, and IQ. None of the subjects had a peripheral auditory impairment.

Experimental and control groups differed significantly on the corrected left SSW ear scores at the 0.03 level, the corrected total SSW scores at the 0.05 level, and on the left ear scores of the Competing Sentences test of Willeford's TCAF at the 0.05 level.

Discriminant analysis showed that five variables predicted whether an individual child belonged to the experimental or control group. This led to a formula that predicted correct group membership seventy-three and eight tenths percent. (73.8%) of the time.

LLU Discipline

Audiology

Department

Communicative Disorders

School

Graduate School

First Advisor

E. Evelyn Britt

Second Advisor

Victor S. Griffiths

Third Advisor

David G. McGann

Fourth Advisor

Wilma F. Phillips

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Degree Level

M.S.

Year Degree Awarded

1977

Date (Title Page)

6-1977

Language

English

Library of Congress/MESH Subject Headings

Learning Disorders -- diagnosis; Auditory Perception.

Type

Thesis

Page Count

viii; 68

Digital Format

PDF

Digital Publisher

Loma Linda University Libraries

Usage Rights

This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has granted Loma Linda University a limited, non-exclusive right to make this publication available to the public. The author retains all other copyrights.

Collection

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Collection Website

http://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/etd/

Repository

Loma Linda University. Del E. Webb Memorial Library. University Archives

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