Assessments
 Scan C revised (Keith 2000) base line measure for screening
 GFW Auditory Skills Battery
 Selective attention
 Memory (Woodstock 1976)
 TAPS-R
 Selected subtest (Gardner 1985)
 Rhythm test TraCoL (Treharne 1999)
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Selective attention
Problems hearing Speech in a noisy background
 Test used :
 GFW Test of Selective attention
 Subtests
 Active listening - report what had been heard.
 Fan background (white noise)
 Cafeteria babble background (pink noise)
 Voice - person reading a story
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Memory
 Test of Auditory Perceptual Skills - Revised Gardener
 Digit Span forwards
 Digit Span reverse
 Auditory Sequential memory
 Digit span (TAPS)
 Working memory
 Reversed digit span (TAPS)
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Rhythm
 Temporal Pattern perception
 TraCoL
For more detailed results and statistical data of the research done;
please contact Dilys Treharne via Sheffield University.
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Separating Target from background noise
 Test :
 SCAN,
 GFW selective attention.
 Therapy :
 TLP,
 Earobics
 Discrimination tasks with increasing background noise
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Auditory Closure Tasks
 Test :
SCAN,
 ITPA
 Therapy :
 Familiar lines completion
 Rhyme activities
 Missing syllable exercises
 Missing phoneme exercises
 Add background noise
 Localisation training
 TLP
 Vocabulary building
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Working Memory
 Test :
 Digit
 Word and sentence span (TAPS)
 GFW memory
 Therapy :
 Aunt Sally
 Kim's game
 Logic puzzles
 Matching games
 Earobics
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Recognising Sounds
 Test :
 Tallal type discrimination tasks
 SCAN
 Standard auditory discrimination tasks- timed
 Non speech patterns (eg TraCoL)
 Therapy :
 Phoneme discrimination training
 Earobics
 Prosody Training
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Sequencing
 Test :
 Tallal type tasks
 Verbal comprehension of a series of verbal concepts
 Non speech sequences eg TraCoL
 Therapy :
 Earobics
 Aunt Sally went to market
 Kim's game with sequences
 Some FastForward activities.
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Temporal Pattern Processing
 Tests :
 TraCoL
 Therapy :
 Training in the recognition and use of prosodic aspects of speech eg stress change eg record / Rec ord
 Sentence stress training
 Non speech patterb recognition
 Copying and word prosody recognition
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Processing at Speed and Inter-hemispheric Processing
 Test :
 SCAN
 Verbal comprehension tasks timed eg TROG
 Therapy :
 TLP
 Cross modal exercies
 Brain Gym
 Singing to music
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Processing at Speed and Inter-hemispheric Processing
 Test :
 SCAN
 Verbal comprehension tasks timed eg TROG
 Therapy :
 TLP
 Cross modal exercies
 Brain Gym
 Singing to music
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