Language and auditory processing disorders: literature review

ABSTRACT The auditory and language processes are interdependent and the good performance of one of them contributes to the proper functioning of the other. The purpose of this article was to make a literature review based on national and international studies in a systematic way. Such review was made to verify the relationship between language and auditory processing disorders. The bibliographic search used the Pubmed and Web of Science database, from May to June 2014. The inclusion criteria were: articles that answered the guiding question and were found through the descriptors used. Studies with animals, laboratory studies, opinion/authority articles, case series and reports were excluded. The selection of articles was made through a protocol created for the elaboration of this study. For that, the following aspects were used: author, year, place, design, sample, age group, used tests and results. The search through free descriptors and terms revealed 254 articles in the pre-established database, 187 from Pubmed and 67 from Web of Science. Of the total, 156 were excluded by the title and abstract and 87 by the reading of the full text. This enabled the analysis of 10 articles. It was observed that, in the auditory tests, children with language development disorders showed lower performance than those with typical development.