Perception of prosody in children with auditory processing disorders

ABSTRACT

The objective of this study was to investigate perception of affective prosody in a group of children diagnosed as having auditory processing disorders (APDs) and compare their performance with those of typically developing children. Auditory Linguistic Integration test in Marathi, which assesses affective prosody, was administered on 159 children in the age range of 5–7 years. Among them, 53 children had APD, and 106 children did not have APD. The results of the study revealed that the perception of affective prosody was significantly poor in children with APD when compared to typically developing children. The results of the study suggested that a subset of children with APD may show difficulty in the perception of affective prosody. Further studies need to be carried out to explore the factors that can affect the perception of affective prosody in children with APD.

KEYWORDS:

• Affective prosody
• percrption of emotion
• CAPD
• spoken language processing

Acknowledgements

The authors thank the authorities of Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University) Medical College and School of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology for giving permission to carry out the study. Thanks to the children who participated in the study.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).