Auditory processing and language evaluation in patients with Cat Eye Syndrome - case study

Abstract

The Cat Eye Syndrome is a rare syndrome characterized by coloboma of iris and pre-auricular malformation. The objective of this study was to evaluate the speech, comprehension of speech and auditory processing of two brothers with a diagnosis of cat eye syndrome. The evaluations were performed in a neuroaudiologic clinic and speech screening clinic of the Speech Therapy Department, Federal University of São Paulo. The tests were: pure tone audiometry, research of the speech reception threshold, tympanometry and acoustic reflex, index of speech recognition percentage, speech in noise with figures, digit dichotic test Random Gap Detection Test, vocabulary test and phonology and an Item which assesses speech comprehension of Luria Nebraska Neuropsychological Assessment. In the evaluation the children showed bilateral sensorineural hearing loss of minimum level, changes in hearing closure and figure-ground in auditory processing, and in the skills of listening and spoken language issue in phonology and vocabulary tests.