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Hierarchical ordering of auditory discriminations and the Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities test

, , and . Journal on Developmental Disabilities, 6 (2): 32-50 (April 1999)PO: Human; Male; Female; AG: Childhood (birth-12-yrs); School-Age (6-12-yrs); Adolescence (13-17-yrs); Adulthood (18-yrs-and-older); Young-Adulthood (18-29-yrs); Thirties (30-39-yrs); Middle-Age (40-64-yrs); LO: Canada; MD: Empirical-Study.

Abstract

The Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities (ABLA) test assesses the ease or difficulty with which persons with developmental disabilities are able to learn a motor imitation, a position discrimination, two 2-choice visual discriminations, and two 2-choice auditory discriminations. These tasks are hierarchically ordered in level of difficulty and are predictive of other task performance. The authors expanded the ABLA to include 4 additional auditory discriminations and examined the hierarchical ordering of the new discriminations. Results with 25 Ss (aged 6-42 yrs) with developmental disabilities, and in combination with the results from 3 previous studies, showed reliable and consistent relations among 3 of the auditory discriminations and the ABLA test. Limitations and practical implications of the findings are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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