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Harold C. Pillsbury, MD; John H. Grose, PhD; William L. Coleman, MD; C. Keith Conners, PhD; Joseph W. Hall, PhD

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1995;121(12):1345-1350.

Abstract
Objective
To evaluate the basic binaural function of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Design
Case-control study. Measures of binaural function were compared for children with and without ADHD.

Subjects
Forty-two children; 26 had ADHD and 16 were normal controls.

Interventions
None.

Results
For detection tasks, no differences were seen between children with ADHD and controls. For speech recognition tasks, the younger children with ADHD did not perform as well as the controls.

Conclusions
Younger children with ADHD might have a reduced processing efficiency for signal recognition in certain types of noise, but not for signal detection.

(Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1995;121:1345-1350)

Author Affiliations
From the Division of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery (Drs Pillsbury, Grose, and Hall), and the Center for Development and Learning (Dr Coleman), University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill; and the Department of Medical Psychology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC (Dr Conners).

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