w4 - Ax of APD (tests and categories) Flashcards
How are APD TB, APD test, APD models, and APD categories different?
- APD test battery: going through a series of tests
- APD test: a single test of APD
- APD models: a framework that has been designed
- APD categories: sublevels within a framework (tests within each category to target certain things)
In clinics you follow a ____
test battery
Why don’t we follow models in clinic?
- It is not feasible to complete an entire model within an Ax time (not enough time), can make a wrong assumption with a complex model, also, these are just “suggested” models.
- Many people choose a couple of tests from a specific model to make it more feasible (not including all of the suggested tests in a TB).
What are the 11 considerations for an APD diagnostic assessment?
- taking a comprehensive case history by interview
- completing a checklist/questionnaires through interview
- observing the case behaviour (how they respond to questions or directions)
- gathering additional information from a multidisciplinary team
- controlling over confounding factors (medication, attention, fatigue)
- conducting APD tests in a sound treated booth
- no single APD TB is suitable for every suspected individual
- the TB should be chosen based on: case hx, checklists, parent/teacher questionnaires, multidisciplinary team
- TB should include both verbal and nonverbal tests
- APD tests should have psychometric properties reported (sensitivity, specificty, reliability, vailidty)
- Have knowledge of what a TB evaluates
What information should you find out about in case history?
- auditory and communication difficulties
- family history
- general and medical history
- developmental milestones
- comorbid conditions
- medications
- social development/behaviour
- education/work history
Why should you take case hx, checklists, and questionnaires through itnerview?
- Follow up questions
- Observe the whole family (parent and child interaction)
- Can help make decisions regarding the TB
Who is part of the APD multidisciplinary team?
- slps
- psychologists/psychiatrists
- family drs, pediatricians, otologists
- occupational therapists, optometrits
- teachers
Explain controlling over confounding factors
a) medication
b) attention and fatigue
medication: taking regular prescribed medications to reduce the impact of confounding factors (ADHD, depression) - complete APD testing under medication
attention & fatigue: considering break periods during a test or between tests to prevent the fatigue impact
What happens if you dont take confounding factors into account?
can affect the results
How long is a childs attention span?
Need to offer breaks (especially for children)
- Add 2 minutes to the age and this is the maximum limit the child has to complete a test (attention span)
- Ex) 6 year old child = 8 min attention span
Why do you need to conduct APD tests in a sound treated booth?
This is important because: it maximizes control (no distractions), most tests include BGN (we need control over stimulus level)
Why do we need to include nonverbal Ax in the TB?
Help us to check if there is something wrong related to the entire auditory neural network
What are the 4 psychometric properties?
1) sensitivity
2) specificity
3) validity
4) reliability
What is sensitivity?
detecting disorder when present
what is specificity?
not detecting disorder when absent
what is reliability?
the consistency of a measure (whether the results can be reproduced under the same conditions)
What is validity?
- the accuracy of a measure (whether the test measures what it is supposed to measure)
- measuring auditory processing skills in the context of APD
Why do we need high levels of reliability and validity?
- We don’t want to say its APD if it isn’t
- Need to be smart in deciding what test to use
If a test isn’t reliable, if you do the test twice, results may not add up (if you get the same result twice, you can assume the test is reliable)
Depending on the test, it can evaluate what?
multiple levels and the integrity of the CANS
- left ear/brain
- right ear/brain
- brainstem
- interhemispheric regions
What are the 4 models of the APD TB?
1) the minimal TB or medical model
2) the bellis and ferre model
3) the buffalo model
4) the spoken language processing (slp) model
What is an important matter that all of the models acknowledge?
mitigating the impact of fatigue and low attention on test results
Explain the 7 steps of the minimal test battery (MTB) model
1) pure tone audiometry: to evaluate the integrity of the peripheral hearing system
2) immittance audiometry: to evaluate the status of the middle ear and aid in diagnosing auditory neuropathy
3) otoacoustic emissions: used to diagnose inner ear problems
4) ABR and MLR tests: to test the neural synchrony and integrity of the auditory brainstem and the cortex
5) performance-intensity functions for word recognition ability
6) a dichotic task: using words digits, or sentences to assess communication between the brain hemispheres
7) the duration pattern test & temporal gap detection test: to evaluate temporal processing aspects of APD
What two tests make up the MTB TB?
A dichotic task, duration pattern test/temporal gap detection test
What are the 4 concerns surrounding the MTB model?
- A medical framework (does not address the behavioural and educational concerns; a very audiological view of APD)
- Doesn’t use interviews (focuses on the medical side of things, not functional)
- Mostly diagnostic tests focused on lesions in the auditory system
- Focuses on physical damage
What is the only model that utilizes electrophys Axs?
MTB model
In relation to the MTB model, what is the performance intensity (PI) function OR PI-phonetically balanced (PB) function?
- It refers to the relationship between speech perception scores and increasing levels of sound presentation
- It measures how well a person can understand speech (usually words from a phonetically balanced word list) by increasing the speech presentation level
- The scores typically improve as the loudness increases until they reach a plateau, where further volume increases no longer result in better scores
- Its especially useful in diagnosing SNHL or retro-cochlear disorder
Why do many audiologists use the MTB model?
Because it is a very short TB
What is the 4 aims of the bellis/ferre model?
To provide comprehensive understanding of APD by testing/collecting information n about:
- Auditory processing skills
- Language skills
- Learning abilities
- Cognitive function
Compared to the medical framework, the bellis/ferre model considers assessing what?
Non-auditory factors.
The bellis/ferre model consists of…
3 APD profiles
2 secondary APD profiles (subcategories)
Does the bellis/ferre model recommend certain tests to use?
No, it is up to you
- What are the 3 APD profiles identified from the bellis/ferre model?
o 1) auditory decoding deficit
o 2) prosodic deficit
o 3) integration deficit
- Bellis/ferre model: an auditory decoding deficit is characterized by what 4 things?
o 1) poor performance in the right ear vs the left ear on specific speech tests (difficulty in the left brain and processing/decoding speech and language info)
o 2) poor phonemic representations, sound discrimination, and blending skills
o 3) difficulty in reading, vocabulary, and spelling
o 4) auditory fatigue
- What is the primary site of dysfunction for an auditory decoding deficit (bellis/ferre model)
o The left PAC
- Bellis/ferre model: a prosodic deficit is characterized by what 4 things?
o 1) poor performance in the left ear on dichotic tests (difficulty in the right brain and processing prosodic information, music, numbers)
o 2) difficulty perceiving and recogniszing nonverbal information (tonal patterns, singing ability, voicing patterns)
o 3) weakness in social communication
o 4) poor results in visual spatial tasks
- Bellis/ferre model: an integration deficit is characterized by what 4 things?
o 1) poor performance in the left ear on dichotic tests
o 2) poor performance in nonverbal tests
o 3) difficulty in interhemispheric skills, requiring the coordination of the 2 hemispheres (drawing, dancing, multitasking)
o 4) poor sound localization abilities
- What is the main difference between prosodic and integration deficits?
o For integration, the corpus callosum is essential
- What are the two secondary APD profiles from the bellis/ferre model?
o 1) auditory associative deficit
o 2) output-organization deficit
a) What is an auditory associative deficit (bellis/ferre model)
b) poor results in…
o Characterized by miscommunication between PAC and SAC (from what we receive in PAC and what we process in SAC)
o Poor results in tests of word recognition, dichotic, and receptive language (vocabulary, semantics, and syntax)
- The PAC is the ____, and the SAC is the ___
o Core, belt/parabelt
a) What is an output-organization deficit (bellis/ferre model)
b) difficulties with…
o Person performs well on simple tasks, but struggles with complex tasks
o Ex) sound blending (retaining and blending several sounds), sequencing, planning, and/or fine motor tasks
- Can combinations of profiles occurs in the bellis/ferre model?
yes
- What 3 tests does the buffalo model consist of?
o 1) staggered spondaic word test (SSW)
o 2) phonemic synthesis test (PST)
3) speech in noise test
- Buffalo model: explain the SSW
o SSW is the core of the buffalo model
o The staggered presentation challenges auditory processing
- Buffalo model: what do poor results in PST suggest?
o The decoding subtype of APD
- Buffalo model: what do poor results in SIN tests suggest?
o Tolerance-fading memory (TFM) subtype of APD (the ability to remember information for a short period of time
a) Buffalo model: explain TFM
b) also show difficulties in…
o It is proposed that TFM is a secondary deficit to APD
o Inability to retain auditory information, affecting the amount of information a person can handle at one time
o Additional to SIN difficulty, individuals often show:
Impatience, and easily get over-stimulated
Poor reading comprehension
Handwriting difficulty
- By just using 3 Ax, you get more information with the ____ model rather than the ____ model
o Buffalo, bellis/ferre (the bellis/ferre doesn’t even list the Ax to use)
- What are the 4 APD subtypes described in the buffalo model?
o 1) decoding
o 2) tolerance fading memory
o 3) integration
o 4) organization
- How does the buffalo model explain the subtype of decoding? Poor results in…
o Phonemic processing (in identifying, manipulating, and remembering phonemes)
o Oral reading, word accuracy, spelling skills, and proeessing rapid speech stimuli