Background & Aim

Spatial listening is the ability to distinguish a target speech stream from simultaneous distracting noise using auditory spatial awareness. It relies on several factors, including the listener’s hearing thresholds, auditory experience, familiarity with the surrounding environment, motivation, and attention.

Listening in noisy environments is especially challenging for younger children in school settings, where early educational skills are often taught amidst background noise. Spatial processing disorder (SPD) is a significant issue observed in a notable proportion of children diagnosed with auditory processing disorder (APD). This round table will explore spatial listening research work in children

Material & Methods

Psychophysical and electrophysiological measures of spatial listening were condcted on normal children to establish norms for these measures

Results

It showed normal scores of the test that improved with age in both LiSN test and electrophysiological measures

Conclusions

LiSN test is a promising tool for assessing spatial listening as well as electrophysiological measures

Keywords

LiSN test-cortical measures- spatial listening- Auditory processing disorders