Table 2.

Performance on CAPD test battery between children born prematurely and term

	Term children (n = 45)	Preterm children (n = 15)	p
Total no. of abnormal tests (mean ± SD)	3.6 ± 1.2	4.4 ± 1.4	0.04
Failed staggered spondaic word test (%)	98	80	0.04
Failed filtered word test (%)	95	93	1
Failed dichotic digit test (%)	60	67	0.7
Failed pitch pattern sequence test (%)	26	25	1
Failed phonemic synthesis test (%)	27	67	0.01
Failed auditory continuous performance test (%)	55	54	0.9
Failed synthetic sentence identification (%)	36	54	0.3

Abbreviations: CAPD, central auditory processing disorder; SD, standard deviation