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Central auditory processing in urban black children: a normative study. 1986

R Windham, and M Parks, and W Mitchener-Colston

A major issue concerning central auditory nervous system (CANS) evaluation is the appropriateness of the norms used. The use of currently available CANS norms in the evaluation of urban black children may result in inaccurate diagnosis. The subjects of this study were 40 black children who were intellectually, functionally, and behaviorally normal. Ages ranged from 7 years 4 months to 11 years 4 months. Candidates were identified by classroom teachers, then evaluated by specialists, using interviews, records, observation, and tests to identify "hidden" handicaps. Performance data were obtained on each of the age groups for the following CANS tests: time compressed speech; competing sentences; filtered speech; binaural fusion; alternating sentences; and staggered spondaic words. The results indicated that the performance of normal black children on the CANS test used in this study is not quantitatively nor qualitatively different from the performance of normal white subjects on the same tests.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008297	Male		Males
D012016	Reference Values	The range or frequency distribution of a measurement in a population (of organisms, organs or things) that has not been selected for the presence of disease or abnormality.	Normal Range,Normal Values,Reference Ranges,Normal Ranges,Normal Value,Range, Normal,Range, Reference,Ranges, Normal,Ranges, Reference,Reference Range,Reference Value,Value, Normal,Value, Reference,Values, Normal,Values, Reference
D001741	Black or African American	A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1997/10/30/97-28653/revisions-to-the-standards-for-the classification-of-federal-data-on-race-and-ethnicity). In the United States it is used for classification of federal government data on race and ethnicity. Race and ethnicity terms are self-identified social construct and may include terms outdated and offensive in MeSH to assist users who are interested in retrieving comprehensive search results for studies such as in longitudinal studies.	African American,African Americans,African-American,Afro-American,Afro-Americans,Black Americans,Blacks,Negroes,African-Americans,Negro,Afro American,Afro Americans,American, African,American, Black,Black American
D002648	Child	A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL.	Children
D002657	Child Development	The continuous sequential physiological and psychological maturing of an individual from birth up to but not including ADOLESCENCE.	Infant Development,Development, Child,Development, Infant
D004292	Dominance, Cerebral	Dominance of one cerebral hemisphere over the other in cerebral functions.	Cerebral Dominance,Hemispheric Specialization,Dominances, Cerebral,Specialization, Hemispheric
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001288	Attention	Focusing on certain aspects of current experience to the exclusion of others. It is the act of heeding or taking notice or concentrating.	Focus of Attention,Selective Attention,Social Attention,Attention Focus,Attention, Selective,Attention, Social,Selective Attentions
D013063	Speech Discrimination Tests	Tests of the ability to hear and understand speech as determined by scoring the number of words in a word list repeated correctly.	Discrimination Test, Speech,Discrimination Tests, Speech,Speech Discrimination Test,Test, Speech Discrimination,Tests, Speech Discrimination