Auditory abnormalities in children with autism.pdf.pdf

Open Journal of Psychiatry, 2012, 2, 33-37 OJPsychhttp://dx./.21005 Published Online January 2012 (rnal/ojpsych/) Auditory abnormalities in children with autism Ying-Hua Tan, Chun-Yan Xi*, Shu-Ping Jiang, Bing-Xin Shi, Li-Bo Wang, Lin Wang Developmental Pediatrics of Shengjing Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China Email: *******@Received 27 October 2011; revised 31 November 2011; accepted 11 December 2011ABSTRACT The present study aimed to describe the characteris- tics of auditory abnormalities present in cases of au- tism. One hundred and fifty six children with autism and 141 matched controls with language delay were investigated via direct bined with parent/caregiver reports. All of the autistic indivi- duals demonstrated auditory abnormalities especially in the domain of hyposensitivity, compared with % of children with language delay. The auditory abnor- malities in autism prised of auditory hyposensitivity, auditory hypersensitivity, phonopho- bia, and peculiar interests in certain sounds. Partici- pants with autism were rated as having more prob- lems than the language-delayed children in all the items of each domain. No significant differences in the range of auditory abnormalities were observed be- tween mild and severe autistic children except for the presence of ph