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Auditory Deprivation Caused By Early Otitis Media with Effusion

Volume 5 - Issue 1

**Marcia Salgado Machado*¹, Adriane Ribeiro Teixeira², Andressa Colares da Costa Otavio³, Bruna Macangnin Seimetz⁴ and Sady Selaimen da Costa⁵**

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- ¹Department of Speech Pathology, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Brasil
- ²Department of Health and Human Communication, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- ³Speech Therapist, M.S. in Child and Adolescent Health at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- ⁴Speech Therapist, M.S. in Child and Adolescent Health at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
- ⁵Department of Ophthalmology and Otorhinolaryngology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
*Corresponding author: Marcia Salgado Machado, Speech therapist, Ph.D. student, Graduate Program in Child and Adolescent Health of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Assistant Professor, Department of Speech Pathology, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, 245. Brasil

Received: May 25, 2018; Published: June 01, 2018

DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2018.05.001157

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Abstract

Introduction: In the past 40 years, the literature has attempted to clarify the evidence on the effect of early auditory deprivation caused by early otitis media with effusion (OME) on central auditory processing (CAP). Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the scientific evidence on the effects of auditory deprivation caused by early OME on the CAP of children and adolescents. Data Synthesis: A systematic search was conducted in the following databases: Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scielo), Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences (Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde–LILACS), PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science, PubMed, Medline, and Cochrane databases from the earliest publication, up until October 2016. Prospective studies that reported children or adolescents (aged less than 18 years) with early OME in the first years of life. Conclusions: We selected eight studies on the research topic. The results indicated a correlation between auditory deprivation caused by early OME and changes in CAP in children and adolescents. The hearing ability that was consistently susceptible to auditory deprivation was the auditory figure-ground.

Keywords: Auditory Perception; Otitis Media; Children