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Auditory matching skills and the Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities Test: Where do they fit?

, , and . Developmental Disabilities Bulletin, 22 (1): 1-15 (1994 1994)PO: Human; AG: Childhood (birth-12-yrs); School-Age (6-12-yrs); Adolescence (13-17-yrs); Adulthood (18-yrs-and-older); MD: Empirical-Study.

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Examined the value of adding an additional diagnostic task to the current 6 diagnostic tasks of the Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities Test (ABLA) hierarchy. The intended task was the assessment of the ability to make an auditory match-to-sample discrimination. A 2-choice auditory identity matching test was developed and evaluated in 2 experiments. Exp 1 using 31 clients (aged 8-32 yrs) with profound to moderate levels of retardation demonstrated that auditory identity matching fell between Level 4, visual match-to-sample, and Level 5, auditory discrimination, in the ABLA hierarchy. Exp 2, using 8 clients (aged 17-36 yrs) with profound to moderate levels of retardation, demonstrated that performance on the test of auditory matching predicted Ss' ability to match several pairs of common sounds. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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