The Auditory Perception Test for the Hearing Impaired (APT/HI) serves as a resource for accurately determining the discrete auditory perception abilities of children (three years of age and older) through profiling eight major skill areas with several subsets. By using a limited set of words within the test and the recommended trial sets, the user can determine if a student understands the linguistic material included in the test item set, which demonstrates that auditory processing--rather than linguistic functioning--is being tested.
Practical, easy to use, and designed for use with any number of curricula, APT/HI identifies specific auditory perception and processing deficits across the continuum of listening, from awareness to open-set comprehension. It allows for specific analysis of an individual's ability to decode phonemes in isolation as well as in the context of words and sentences, and examines suprasegmental and linguistic processing skills. A performance profile (rather than a score) provides a display of mastered, emerging, and missing skills. |
