AUDITORY PROCESSING ABILITIES TEST
This test designed to assess auditory processing skills in school age children. Abcd achieved a Total Test Standard Score of 100 and a percentile rank of 50. This is in the average range of ability.
The Composite Index Scores and Percentiles are listed below.
Composite Index Scores / Standard Score / Percentile RankGlobal Index
Auditory Memory Index
Linguistic Processing Index
Global Index measures children’s overall competence with auditory processing skills. This index score is derived from the sum of the scaled scores for all of the subtests. Because it represents many different auditory processing abilities, this index is usually the best indicator of a child’s overall auditory processing abilities.
Auditory Memory Index measures a child’s auditory memory skills. This includes both immediate and working memory skills.
Linguistic Processing Index measures a child’s ability to process a number of types of auditory linguistic information. The subtests include the tasks of phonemic awareness, repetition of words and sentences, sentence and passage comprehension and association tasks.
The scaled scores for the individual subtest are listed below.
Scoring Summary / Scaled ScorePhonemic Awareness
Word Sequences
Semantic Relationships
Sentence Memory
Cued Recall
Content Memory, Immediate
Content Memory, Delayed
Complex Sentences
Sentence Absurdities
Following Directions
Passage Comprehension
Abcd scored below average on the following individual subtests:
Phonemic Awareness - the ability to perform specific tasks associated with sound awareness within word structures; these skills are necessary for the acquisition of written language skills.
Word Sequences - the ability to repeat word sequences of increasing length.
Semantic Relationships - the ability to recognize the common associations between words.
Sentence Memory - the ability to repeat sentences of increasing length and linguistic complexity.
Cued Recall - -the ability to recall word pairs with no linguistic similarities.
Content Memory - the ability to recall information contained in a brief story, immediately and after a delay.
Complex Sentences - the ability to understand grammatically complex sentences and answer questions about content.
Sentence Absurdities - the ability to recognize incongruities in sentence content.
Following Directions - the ability to follow oral instructions of increasing length and complexity.
Passage Comprehension - the ability to understand and recall details of a passage-length material of increasing length and complexity.