Assessment of Auditory Skills of Children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Background: An integral part of a comprehensive auditory training program is the assessment of individual auditory skills. In addition, most therapists will want to evaluate the hearing ability of their pupils in a more formal manner and in approximately the same way and comparing their auditory abilities to regroup them for communication activities. Conclusion: Evaluation and informal observation are more important for young children; it is because of the limitation in their physical and cognitive development. Therefore, informal testing and observation are relied upon heavily with this age group. For older children, more formal, in-depth assessment of overall speech perception abilities generally is possible. A variety of tests should be available for assessment purposes so that the particular needs of each individual can be met adequately. In this article some of these tests for deaf / hard of hearing children (Tavana test, Ling test, GASP/MODARRES test and so on) are reviewed.