Audiologic Test Battery
Katz Central Test Battery
Jack Katz, 1997,2001
Audiologic Assessment
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Otoscopy
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Tympanometry
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Acoustic Reflexes
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Hearing Screening
Fisher’s Auditory Problems Checklist
Normed to age five
25 statements to mark as a
concern
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Association
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Long term memory
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Attention
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Motivation
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Attention span
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Performance
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Auditory visual integration
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Recognition
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Closure
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Sensitivity
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Comprehension
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Sequential memory
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Discrimination
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Short term memory
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Figure-ground
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Speech language problems
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Identification
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Localization
Fishers Auditory Problems Checklist
Staggered Spondaic Word Test (SSW)
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Normed down to age five
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Assesses dichotic listening
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Requires the auditory process of binaural integration
when linguistic cues are present
 Binaural
Integration: the ability to understand and
process two different messages presented
simultaneously
Example: up
RNC
stairs
RC
down
LC
town
LNC
Staggered Spondaic Word Test (SSW)
CID-W22 Speech In Noise Test
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Normed down to age five
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Assesses the auditory process of auditory figure
ground
 Auditory
figure ground: the ability to understand
messages in the presence of background noise
(+5db S/N ratio)
Example: Repeat these words (25 RE, then 25 LE)
Listen to the man and ignore the noise
Compare difference in ears
Compare difference in quiet and in noise
CID Auditory Test W-22 in Noise
Phonemic Synthesis Picture Test
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Preschool to First Grade (4-7 years of age)
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Listen, sequence and remember sounds discreetly
presented and blend to make word
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Example: m- i- l- k =
milk
25 words increasing in number of sounds
% correct and analyze types of errors
Phonemic Synthesis Picture Test
Competing Environmental Sounds
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Normed down to age six
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Dichotic task assessing Binaural Integration
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Example: hear two environmental sounds presented
simultaneously to each ear and point to pictures
representing the two sounds
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Car horn (RE) and sneezing (LE)
get total % correct and % correct at each ear
Competing Environmental Sounds Test
Competing Environmental Sounds Test
Results of Pre and Post Testing
Fisher’s Auditory Problems Checklist