Description: The TAPS provides a way to identify particular language processes that an individual may be having difficulties with. The TAPS-4 will feature new subtests along with updates to subtests from the TAPS-3. The TAPS-4 will also feature audio administration for the subtests in which proper pronunciation of speech sounds is critical, which will provide a greater degree of standardization and accuracy over the testing process. Processing Oral Directions (without background noise): Assesses an individual’s ability to process and recall oral directions when presented in quiet listening conditions Word (Pair) Discrimination: Assesses an individual’s ability to discriminate whether a given word pair is the same or different Phonological Deletion: Assesses an individual’s ability to manipulate phonemes within words Phonological Blending: Assesses an individual’s ability to synthesize a word given the individual phonemes Syllabic Blending: Assesses an individual’s ability to synthesize a nonsense word given the individual syllables Auditory Figure-Ground (Processing Oral Directions with Background Noise): Assesses an individual’s ability to process and recall oral directions when presented with competing background noise Number Memory Forward: Assesses an individual’s ability to recall an auditory sequence of numbers in the given order Number Memory Reversed: Assesses an individual’s ability to recall an auditory sequence of numbers in the reverse order Word Memory: Assesses an individual’s ability to recall an auditory sequence of words in the given order Sentence Memory: Assesses an individual’s ability to recall a spoken sentence Auditory Comprehension of Language: Assesses an individual’s ability to comprehend oral language at the sentence and narrative level, including literal recall, inference, and higher order language tasks such as idioms and figurative language
Series: TAPS-4
Publisher: Academic Therapy Publications
Year Published: 2018
Grade: age5-21
Format: KIT
Keywords: auditory processing; CAPD;