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Auditory Processing Assessment Kit

The Auditory Processing Assessment Kit has been developed for classroom teachers and health professionals to help improve communication and learning outcomes. It is a practical tool to assess children’s capacity to take in and recall verbal instructions.

The ability to accurately recall spoken information is a developmental process that gradually improves throughout childhood with the rate of development varying from one child to another.  If those teaching children take auditory processing and the recommended strategies into account, they can expect significantly improved learning outcomes and behaviour.

The Kit provides pre-recorded spoken presentations of sentences and digits with instructions on how to use them to measure auditory processing capacity. Children are instructed to listen
to the sentences or series of digits and repeat accurately what they hear. Repetition of sentences of increasing length gives an indication of the length of instruction that a child can understand. The ability to repeat digits indicates how well children process information in order, for example, phonemes or sounds that make up a word.Children with many different conditions such as Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, speech and language disorders, central auditory processing difficulties, mild intellectual difficulty, unfamiliarity with English, or those with an isolated problem with normal intelligence, or even children who are very stressed, can all experience difficulty with processing auditory information.

The Auditory Processing Assessment Kit contains 2 x CDs and an instruction booklet

Each CD contains:

  • Pre-recorded verbal presentation of sentences and digits
  • Instructions for conducting the assessment
  • Printable score sheets
  • Video clips of children undergoing assessment
  • Norm statistics from more than 12,000 students and indicators of children at risk
  • Classroom tips – practical strategies for improving learning outcomes and behaviour
  • Supporting research

* Note: this assessment does not provide a diagnosis; rather it assesses how a child is functioning.

Purchasing

Please visit the RCH Shop Online to order your copy of 'Auditory Processing Assessment Kit'.

Authors

  • Dr Katherine Rowe, Paediatrician
  • Jan Pollard, Audiologist
  • Dr Ken Rowe, Research Psychologist

For further information contact: info@auditoryprocessingkit.com.au

Published by

  • ERC Media
    Educational Resource Centre
    The Royal Children’s Hospital
    Melbourne
     
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