On-Demand Webinar
The TEST OF AUDITORY FUNCTIONING (TAF): A Criterion-Based Test for Toddlers through School-Aged Kiddos Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Presented by Donald M. Goldberg, Ph.D., CCC-SLP / A, LSLS Cert. AVT
Description: Following years of analysis and planning, field testing on four continents (and COVID!) — the TEST OF AUDITORY FUNCTIONING has been produced for release by BlueTree Publishing. The TAF includes 19 subtests from Duration Discrimination, Pitch Discrimination, F0 Discrimination and Recognition, Environmental Sound Recognition, the Ling Six Sounds, Learning to Listen (LTL) Animal and Vehicle Sounds, four measures of Pattern Perception, Word Recognition (one and two critical elements), Sequencing (Quiet and +10 SNR), and Listening Comprehension measures (Quiet, +5, and 0 SNR). Beautifully illustrated, testing formats will include images on easel-format. The TAF is targeted for Educational Audiologists, Speech-Language Pathologists, Teachers of the Deaf, Cochlear Implant diagnostic team members, PLUS — all in great need of measuring baseline data on the auditory functioning skills and abilities of their “guests.” Intended for annual administration, this criterion-based measure also provides clear insights into the level an individual with hearing “difference” “breaks down” for goal and objective setting for follow-up intervention.
This presentation will focus significantly on the Test of Auditory Functioning and will not include information on other similar or related products.
Presenter: Donald M. Goldberg, Ph.D., CCC-SLP / A, LSLS Cert. AVT, is a Full Professor at the College of Wooster in Ohio. He also serves on the Professional Staff of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Dr. Goldberg’s areas of clinical and research activities are focused on the auditory and spoken language outcomes of infants and children who are deaf or hard of hearing; notably with youngsters using cochlear implants and/ or hearing aids. Goldberg is the co-author of Educational Audiology for the Limited Hearing Infant and Preschooler (1997, Pollack, Goldberg, & Caleffe-Schenck), along with numerous book chapters, and journal contributions. He is a Past President of both the AG Bell Board of Directors and the AG Bell Academy Board.
Agenda:
- Introduction (5 min)
- Presentation (75 min)
- Conclusions & Questions (10 min)
.15 ASHA CEUs
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will be able to identify how the TEST OF AUDITORY FUNCTIONING can determine most basic through higher levels of auditory functioning for preschoolers through school-aged “guests” (and potentially Adults!) with hearing differences.
- Participants will be able to view and then be able to identify the content, testing instruction, scoring, and determination of ceiling level for the 19 subtests of the TAF.
- Participants will be able to perform annual TAF administration in order to determine each child’s current auditory functioning level and develop intervention targets.
Presenter Disclosures:
Dr. Donald M. Goldberg, The TEST OF AUDITORY FUNCTIONING (TAF): A Criterion-Based Test for Toddlers through School-Aged Kiddos Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, employed by College of Wooster.
Disclosures:
Financial – Blue Tree Publishing; TAF to be published by Blue Tree Publishing.
Nonfinancial – No disclosures.
Cost:
Member cost $27.50
Non-member cost $35
Students may attend at no cost.
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