2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
3/18/2024 | 10:35 AM - 11:00 AM | A Test of Auditory Skills and Abilities: A Criterion-Based Tests for Toddlers and Beyond | Mineral Hall B/C
A Test of Auditory Skills and Abilities: A Criterion-Based Tests for Toddlers and Beyond
Following years of analysis and planning and field testingon four continents, the Test of Auditory Functioning (TAF) has been released. The TAF includes 19 subtests from Duration Discrimination, Pitch Discrimination, Determination of Male/Female/Child Pitch, Learning to Listen Associated Sounds (Animals and Vehicles), Pattern Perception, Word Recognition, Sequencing, and Listening Comprehension (in Quiet and at three SNRs). Speech-Language Pathologists, Audiologists, Teachers of the Deaf, and others professionals, are all in need of the only available measure for the comprehensive assessment of the auditory functioning of this age and population of children who are deaf or hard of hearing
- Participants will be able to identify how the Test of Auditory Functioning can determine a child's level of auditory functioning.
- Participants will view and then be able to identify the content and scoring of the 19 subtests of the TAF
- Participants will be able to describe how annual administration of the TAF can be used for a range for clinicians working with toddlers and above who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Presentation:
3478265_16415DonaldGoldberg.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
3478265_16415DonaldGoldberg.pdf
Presenters/Authors
Donald Goldberg
(Primary Presenter), College of Wooster/CCF, dgoldberg@wooster.edu;
Donald M. Goldberg, Ph.D., CCC-SLP/A, LSLS Cert. AVT, is a Full Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the College of Wooster (Oho) and a member of the Professional Staff for the Hearing Implant Program (HIP) at the Cleveland Clinic’s Head and Neck Institute. Goldberg was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Newcastle’s Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children (RIDBC) in North Rocks/Sydney Australia from December 2014 through February 2015.
Dr. Goldberg earned his Ph.D. at the University of Florida (UF) in 1985; Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology from UF in 1979; and his Bachelor’s degree in Biology/Education from Lafayette College in Easton, PA (1977). He has been a university/college professor, the co-director of one of the largest cochlear implant centers in the United States, and is the former Executive Director of the Helen Beebe Speech and Hearing Center, Easton, Pennsylvania.
The co-author of
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
• Receives Royalty options or other ownership interest for Other activities from Blue Tree Publishing.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
Financial relationship with Blue Tree Publishing (Edmonds, WA) is the publisher of the Test of Auditory Functioning. .
Nature: Dr. Goldberg will receive a portion of each test sale (following the publication of the TAF, which is expected for October/November 2023).
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.