History
The date of publication for TAPS-4
What is 2018?
The Phonological Processing Index consists of
What is Word (Pair) Discrimination, Phonological Deletion, Phonological Blending, Syllabic Blending (Supplemental) subtests?
The Qualification level is
What is Level C (MA)?
A master’s degree (MA, MS, MSW, CAGS) in psychology, occupational therapy, speech–language pathology, neuropsychologist, special education, and other professionals trained to assess language skills?
The number of Versions for the Test of Audio Processing Skills (TAPS)
What is 4 versions?
Age of student population
What is 5 to 21 years?
The authors of TAPS-4
What is Nancy Martin, PhD, Rick Brownell, MA, and Patricia Hamaguchi, MA, CCC-SLP?
The Auditory Memory Index consists of
What are scores from the Number Memory Forward, Word Memory, Sentence Memory, Number Memory Reversed (Supplemental) subtests?
The time it takes to administer
What is 60-90 minutes?
The TAPS expanded norms to include
What is hearing impairment, ADHD, Specific Language Impairments, auditory processing disorder, and learning disability?
The TAPS-4 does not include Basal Effects
What is true?
The TAPS-4 measures
What is Phonological Processing, Auditory Processing, and Language Processing?
The Listening Comprehension Index score consists of
What is scores from the Processing Oral Directions (w/out background noise), Auditory Comprehension, and Auditory Figure-Ground (Processing Oral Directions with background noise) (Supplemental) subtests?
In subtest 2, Word Discrimination, the examinee is verbally presented pairs of words
What is identifying if the words are the same or different?
The TAPS-4 added this from TAPS-3
What is audio administration of the phonetic words in various subtests?
The number of norm samples for TAPS
What is 2,023 individuals from ages 5 through 21?
The theory that TAPS-4 supports
What is Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory?
This measures processes what an examinee hears in an auditory spectrum
What is the TAPS-4 measure?
This population would not be candidates for TAPS-4
What is English Language Learners or examines who cannot provide a reliable verbal response?
Audio recordings are important in
What is decreasing the biases of test administrators and proper pronunciation?
What is increasing accuracy of test results?
The internal consistency of reliability scores
What is .80 to .89 for the subtests and .93 for the entire test?
What is PAL?
What is Phonological Processing, Auditory Processing, and Language Processing (PAL)?
The TAPS-4 assesses five narrow abilities across three broad skill areas in CHC
What is Short-Term Memory across Memory Span (MS) and Working Memory Capacity (MW)?
What is Auditory Processing across Phonetic Coding (PC) and Resistance to Auditory Stimulus Distortion (UR)?
What is comprehension knowledge across Listening Ability (LS)?
Practicing subtest 7, Number Memory Forward, and subtest 8, Number Memory Reserved before administration is important
What is to practice reciting the numbers in one digit per second to prevent administrator influence on examinee's responses?
TAPS-4 was reorganized into indices and 11 supplemental subtests to
What is improving the degree of standardization and accuracy?
TAPS-4 If an examinee scores indicate deficits in language processing & comprehension skills this information can lead to student support in several areas of learning
What is allow for early interventions; provide support during fundamental stages of development of learning strategies for reading; spelling and writing.