Effect of Dichotic Offset Training (Dot) in Children with an Auditory Processing Disorder

Abstract

Management of children with auditory processing disorders had gained wide importance in recent years. Various studies in the literature have shown that training children with central auditory processing problems using deficit specific intervention results in the improvement of auditory skills. The present study aimed at .finding out the effectiveness of Dichotic Offset Training in children with auditory processing disorder. Twelve children who failed a screening checklist and the Dichotic CV and/or the Dichotic Digit test were included in the study. Six of them in the experimental group received Dichotic Offset Training using the training material developed by Yathiraj (2006). The children in the control group did not receive any training. The results revealed that there was statistically significant improvement after training in dichotic CV test. In dichotic digit test statistically significant improvement was seen in right ear single correct scores alone and not for left ear single correct score and double correct scores. Thus training children with binaural integration deficits using dichotic Offset Training was found to be effective.