PURPOSE: to perform a quantitative inventory on exchanges and/or omissions in the SSW test and its possible relationships between auditory processing disorders, as well as different complains from these individuals METHODS: 226 protocols were selected among patients who performed the SSW (staggered spondaic word) test at Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo in 2005. In order to analyze the medical records, a protocol was elaborated where general interview data and the description of the patient's performance in the test were computed, as well as the classification of the alteration. RESULTS: no associations among complaints and classifications of the altered exams were observed. The exchanges and omissions and alteration were fewer in the normal tests and larger in the altered ones. Larger number was verified in the left competitive condition in exchange and omission errors. CONCLUSIONS: the most frequent type of auditory processing disorder was decoding. There were writing and reading related complaints. The highest incidence of errors in the test was observed in individuals with complaints without a predominance of one of these complaints in one of the classified processing disorder alteration. The presence of large number of exchanges in the SSW test is an indicator for inability related to phonemic analysis and synthesis of speech sounds. A large number of omissions, predominantly in the left ear is an indicator of inability to integrate acoustic and linguistic aspects of speech sounds that make up a word.
Auditory Perception; Hearing Tests; Hearing
