TAPS-4 A Language Processing Skills Assessment

The TAPS-4 provides information about three important oral language abilities: phonological processing, auditory memory, and listening comprehension. These areas underpin the development of effective listening and communication skills, and are critical to the development of higher order language skills, including literacy skills.

What’s New

The TAPS-4 has two new subtests, fully updated norms, and an expanded age range. The subtests are now grouped into composites and supplemental subtests were added.

The TAPS-4 also has an audio administration for the subtests in which proper pronunciation of speech sounds is critical. This provides a greater degree of standardization and accuracy to these subtests.

The TAPS-4 now has 11 subtests. The subtests are organized into three composites. The scores for the subtests are reported as scale scores. The scores for the composites are reported as indexes.

Phonological Processing Composite:

• 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 Composite:

• 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 Composite:

• 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

COMPLETE TAPS-4 KIT INCLUDES: Manual, 25 Test Booklets, and an Administration CD, all in a handy portfolio.

User Qualifications:

To administer this test at least a master' s degree is required, with state licensure OR certification from a professional organization (ASHA, AOTA, APA, AERA, ACA, AMA, NASP, NAN, INS) that requires formal training and experience in ethics, psychometrics, statistics, and scoring and interpretation. Tests of perceptual, academic, and functional processes used in schools, clinics and rehabilitation settings are of this level. All test users, regardless of level and profession, are expected to abide by the standards set forth by the APA, AERA and NCME regarding the ethical use, protection and dissemination of all test materials. All orders for the products listed below, must be placed on official institutional purchase order forms or professional letterhead.

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