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Word Identification Task: Speech Perception Assessment (WITSPA) has been designed primarily, but not exclusively, for use as a screening protocol by professionals working with deaf children. It is a graded minimal pair (dyadic/triadic), picture-based, word identification task suitable for use with children above the age of 3 years.
Word Identification Task: Speech Perception Assessment – WITSPA is a screening protocol that allows the administrator to identify possible areas of identification confusion based upon such parameters as syllable, vowel, consonant (defined by voice, manner, place and word position) and consonant cluster contrasts. It is an acoustically balanced assessment, presenting high, medium and low-frequency phones in a variety of word positions. It is designed to be functional and clinically relevant to assess skill in speech perception.
WITPSA does not offer a pass/fail for the test as a whole but instead highlights areas of potential concern in order to help support ongoing intervention.
WITSPA was developed by the author primarily, but not exclusively, for use by professionals working with deaf children. As a clinician working with deaf children, the author identified the lack of suitable, sensitive assessment resources as a problem that ultimately undermined effective diagnoses and management planning. This has been a problem for those assessing a wide variety of areas of communication ability in deaf children and for those wanting a clinically functional speech perception assessment for other client groups such as those with speech, language and literacy issues.
Establishing this assessment’s reliability and validity became the focus of Dr Sarah Rhiannon Patten’s PhD research at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Click the link for further details
This resource will offer the administrator:
Age: 3+
Format: PDF file. Available by download
3 to 5 years
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