SIMPLIFIED EVALUATION OF AUDITORY SYSTEM IN CHILDRENS FROM 7 TO 11 YEARS WITH INSUFFICIENT GRADE IN SCHOOLS FROM AP 5.1.

Introduction: The integrity of the auditory system is a prerequisite for the acquisition and normal language development. Childrens with learning disabilities has difficulty in various aspects of linguistic auditory processing, and it is possible that these commitments are result of perceptual problems. The area related to auditory processing is composed of the following skills: selective attention, discrimination, location, acknowledgment, understanding and auditory memory. Objective: Perform screening auditory processing in children with insufficient grades in formal evaluation realized in four schools in the programmatic area 5.1 to relate learning disabilities with auditory processing disorders. Method: It is a study by analyzing data collected by assessment through formal protocol (PEREIRA & SCHOCHAT, 1998) applied to 172 childrens in four schools of the municipal educational system of the city of Rio de Janeiro, in Magalhães Bastos. Results and conclusion: It was observed changes in at least one of auditory skills of 113 childrens evaluated by the protocol application using the sino, agogô, coco and guizo. It is concluded that there may be links between learning difficulties and changes in auditory processing order. It must carry out a formal evaluation of the auditory processing to assert the hypotheses.