2025 Volume 68 Issue 3 Pages 223-232
The results of Clinical Assessment for Attention (CAT) in 16 patients (age: 16 to 29 years, mean age: 21.4 years, 6 males and 10 females) with listening difficulties (LiD) were analyzed retrospectively. The results showed that 1) the detection rate of abnormal findings on CAT was not high, but abnormal findings were detected more frequently in auditory tasks than in visual tasks, and 2) individual differences in attention assessed by the auditory task of CAT were significantly correlated with binaural separation, monosyllabic intelligibility in noise, and word comprehension in a cocktail party environment in LiD patients. The significance and limitations of CAT as an attentional function assessment test for LiD patients, as well as the relationship between attentional function and listening difficulty symptoms in LiD patients, are also discussed.
