Test of Auditory Processing Skills, Fourth Edition (TAPS-4)

TAPS-4 Kit - Includes:
• 25 Test Booklets
• 1 Manual
• Administration CD

The TAPS-4 has 11 subtests, organized into three indices:

Phonological Processing Index:
• 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 (Supplemental): Assesses an individual's ability to synthesize a nonsense word given the individual syllables

Auditory Memory Index:
• Number Memory Forward: Assesses an individual's ability to recall an auditory sequence of numbers in the given 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
• Number Memory Reversed (Supplemental): Assesses an individual's ability to recall an auditory sequence of numbers in the reverse order

Listening Comprehension Index:
• Processing Oral Directions (without background noise): Assesses an individual's ability to process and recall oral directions when presented in quiet listening conditions
• Auditory Comprehension: 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
• Auditory Figure-Ground (Processing Oral Directions with background noise) (Supplemental): Assesses an individual's ability to process and recall oral directions when presented with competing background noise

The TAPS-4 assesses five narrow abilities across three broad skill areas as defined in the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory of cognitive abilities:

Short-Term Memory
• Memory Span (MS)
• Working Memory Capacity (MW)

Auditory Processing
• Phonetic Coding (PC)
• Resistance to Auditory Stimulus Distortion (UR)

Comprehension Knowledge
• Listening Ability (LS)

Administration and Scoring
TAPS-4 Index subtests can be administered in one hour or less. Scaled scores are provided for subtests; standard scores are provided for indices and the overall score. Discrepancy scores allow comparison of performance across subtests.