Table 2.
List of the Outcome Evaluation Tools Currently Being Used in Clinical Practice to Monitor Auditory-Related Behaviors in Infants and children (in No Particular Order)
| 1. | Parental observation and report |
| 2. | Consult speech-language pathologist and/or auditory-verbal therapist |
| 3. | Aided soundfield measures and aided hearing threshold measures |
| 4. | Use the SPLogram and evaluate proximity to prescriptive (DSL) target |
| 5. | Aided speech perception scores in quiet and noise |
| 6. | Infant-Toddler Meaningful Auditory Integration Scale (IT-MAIS) or Meaningful Auditory Integration Scale (MAIS). |
| 7. | Parents’ Evaluation of Aural/Oral Performance of Children (PEACH) |
| 8. | Early Listening Function (ELF) |
| 9. | Children’s Home Inventory of Listening Difficulties (CHILD) |
| 10. | LittlEARS Auditory Questionnaire |
| 11. | Processing and Cognitive Enhancement (PACE) |
| 12. | Screening Identification for Targeting Educational Risk (SIFTER) |
| 13. | Client-Oriented Scale of Improvement (COSI) |
| 14. | Early Speech Perception Test (ESP) |
| 15. | Glendonald Auditory Screening Procedure (GASP) |
| 16. | Multi-Syllabic Lexical Neighborhood Test (MLNT)— Iler-Kirk, Pisoni, & Osberger, 1995 |
| 17. | Word intelligibility by picture identification (WIPI) |
| 18. | WD22 word list |
| 19. | Preschool Language Scale (PLS-4) |
| 20. | Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) |
| 21. | Ling 6 sound test |
| 22. | tykeTalk communication checklist |
| 23. | Toronto preschool speech & language development milestone checklist |
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Note: Publication references for some of the outcome evaluation tools listed above have been provided in the reference section of this article.