A Child with Normal Hearing Who Has Difficulty Paying Attention

question 7

Multiple Choice

A child with normal hearing who has difficulty paying attention while listening, paying attention to the teacher when background noise is in the classroom, remembering information presented orally, and discriminating between similar sounding words may be demonstrating

• A) A syntactic disorder
• B) Aphasia
• C) Apraxia of speech
• D) A central auditory processing disorder

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Definitions:

Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test

A nonparametric test used to determine whether two independent samples come from the same distribution.

Significance

In statistics, refers to how likely it is that a relationship observed in data would occur simply by chance.

Basal Metabolism

The rate at which the body uses energy while at rest to maintain vital functions such as breathing and keeping warm; the minimum amount of energy consumed in a resting state.

Nonparametric Methods

Statistical techniques that do not assume a specific distribution for the data, often used when data do not meet the assumptions of parametric tests.