An updated version of the popular Test of Auditory Processing Skills.

Age Range:  5 through 21 years

Time:  60-90 minutes

TAPS-4 identifies particular language processes with which an individual may be having difficulties.  It features new subtests, along with updates to subtests from the TAPS-3.  It also includes audio administration for the subtests in which proper pronunciation of speech sounds is critical.  This allows a greater degree of standardization, and accuracy, over the testing process.

TAPS-4 Subtests

*Processing Oral Directions (without background noise)—ability to process, and recall, oral directions when presented in quiet listening conditions

*Word (Pair) Discrimination—ability to discriminate whether a word pair is the same, or different

*Phonological Deletion—ability to manipulate phonemes within words

*Phonological Blending—ability to synthesize a nonsense word, given the individual phonemes

*Syllabic Blending— ability to synthesize a nonsense word, given the individual syllables

*Auditory Figure-Ground (processing oral directions with background noise)—ability to process, and recall, oral directions when presented with competing background noise

*Number Memory Forward—ability to recall an auditory sequence of numbers, in the given order

*Number Memory Reversed—ability to recall an auditory sequence of numbers, in the reverse order

*Word Memory—ability to recall an auditory sequence of words, in the given order

*Sentence Memory—ability to recall a spoken sentence

*Auditory Comprehension of Language—ability to comprehend oral language at the sentence and narrative level; including literal recall, inference and high-order language tasks, such as idioms and figurative language

The TAPS-4 Kit includes 25 Record Forms, and Administration CD and a Manual, in a Portfolio.