Avaliação da linguagem e do processamento auditivo na caracterização neuropsicológica do TDAH: revisão sistemática / Language and auditory processing in the neuropsychological profile of ADHD: a systematic review

RESUMO

O objetivo foi identificar estudos que investigaram o processamento auditivo (PA) e linguístico na avaliação clínica e/ou neuropsicológica de crianças/adolescentes com TDAH. Buscamos em base de dados PubMed de 2000 a 2012 pela sintaxe [language or linguistic] AND [auditory processing or auditory perception] AND [attention deficit orhyperactivity]. Os abstracts foram analisados por double blind review com terceiro juiz para consenso. De 202 resumos, foram analisados 17 artigos completos, com 15 incluídos; 46,67% dos estudos avaliaram a linguagem (palavra e sentença), 33,33%, PA (integração binaural, processamento temporal e figura-fundo auditiva) e 13,33%, ambos. O transtorno de leitura foi a comorbidade mais prevalente (46,67%). Em geral, o desempenho linguístico e de PA não foram analisados para fins neuropsicológicos específicos, mas apenas para identificar comorbidades.

ABSTRACT

The aim of this paper was to identify studies that investigated auditory processing (AP) and language along clinical and/or neuropsychological assessment of children/teenagers with ADHD. We searched on PubMed database from 2000 to 2012 by means of the syntax [language or linguistic] AND [auditory processing or auditory perception] AND [attention deficit or hyperactivity]. Abstracts were analyzed by a double blind review with a third expert for a consensus. From 202 abstracts, 17 full texts were analyzed and 15 ones were included; 46.67% of the studies assessed language (word and sentence levels), 33.33% evaluated AP (binaural integration, temporal processing and auditory figure-ground) and 13.33% examined both of them. Reading disorder was the most prevalent comorbidity (46.67%). In general, AP and linguistic performance were not analyzed for specific neuropsychological purposes, but only for comorbidities identification.