• The Audiogram Tablet illustrates the intensity and frequency of everyday sounds
• Describes the level of possible hearing loss due to prolonged exposure at each zone
• Includes views of the speech banana
• Great for the parent meetings; teacher inservice; IEP meetings
• 50 Tear off sheets per tablet
• PACK of 3

Product Details:  11 5/8” X 8.25” | 50 pages per tablet | 1 tablet |Tear off sheets

with QR Code link to Animation

The Ear tear off tablet illustrates anatomy of the ear with QR code

• View of outer, middle, inner ear
• QR CODE TO BRING YOU TO AN ACTIVE ANIMATION
• View of semicircular canals and cochlea
• View of the cross section of the cochlea
• View of the ear drum
• Healthy vs damaged hair cells
• Call-out terms to label specific parts
• 50 Sheets per tablet
• PACK of 3
• Great for teaching students about how their hearing functions.
• Great for meetings with parents, inservicing teachers, and IEP meetings.

Product Details:  11 5/8” x 8.25” | 50 pages per tablet | Tear off sheets | Pack of 3 tablets

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• Outlines skills and strategies to support parents and caregivers, including techniques for effective coaching, planning and reflecting
• Provides 47 one-page activities for families to practice early listening skills (Detection, Identification and Comprehension)
• Includes a simple form to track and follow up on progress
• Suggests conversations about each skill you can tailor to each individual family
• Offers practical, shareable resources in English and Spanish (ex: The Ear, Familiar Sounds Audiogram, Six Ling Sounds, Audiogram Basics, plus newly developed resources to promote early and consistent access to spoken language)
• Features Sweet Success! Using Daily Routines to Support Listening and Talking — a new tool for EI providers to help parents help their child become comfortable with hearing device use during all waking hours
• Includes a reusable dry-erase resource ring offering handy access to essential tools

Full digital access to the entire manual is included with the ELH purchase. A link to downloadable handouts to use with families is provided with each purchase.See video here

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Identify listening comprehension ability in preschoolers!

A fast and reliable tool to test the comprehension skills of young learners, ages 3-5 years.

Great for progress monitoring too!

Do you love the OPUS – Oral Passage Understanding Scale for your school-age students? The ASC provides similar information for students in Pre-K and Kindergarten.

The ASC has 6 forms, each of which include:

• a teacher script with a brief story
• followed by eight literal and inferential comprehension questions
• including one question that asks the child to infer the meaning of a vocabulary word used in the story.

$63.00

 The ASC manual includes

• an introduction to the tool, its development, and its supporting research
• detailed administration guidelines, including sample schedules for administering the ASC
• general and item specific scoring guidelines
• frequently asked scoring questions, including examples of how to score ambiguous responses
• fidelity checklists and guidance on establishing and maintaining reliability
• a guide to interpreting scores, including typical score ranges for children ages 3–4 and 4–5
• two practice sets of materials for use in training examiners

Takes only about 3 minutes to administer and 1 minute to score. ©2019

Overall the ASC was easy to give. The student has to come up with the answer and there are no visuals. I like that the manual has a nice scoring guide in the back to assist in determining HOW to score the student. There are also several examples of scored assessments. The student I assessed today only scored 7 out of 17. The ASC would be a good progress monitoring tool to assess three times a year. This student was unable to make predictions based on the title. She scored 3 points out of 6 on the fact-based questions. She scored 3 out of 6 on the inference questions. She was unable to give a definition of the vocabulary word, even with it used 3x in the text. When given a choice, she was able to determine the meaning of the word. This is a student who is six years old, so it definitely points to some issues. A 5-year-old who scores below 11 should receive intervention based on the manual, and this student scored a 7 and she is six years old! Educational Diagnostician for DHH Students – Texas 

Assessment of Story Comprehension Manual Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Assessment of Story Comprehension (ASC)
  Language and Reading Comprehension
  Purposes of the ASC and Curriculum-Based Measurement
  Technical Adequacy
  Organization of the ASC Manual

Chapter 2: Overview of the Assessment of Story Comprehension (ASC)
  What Is the ASC?
  ASC Stories
  ASC Questions

Chapter 3: Administering the Assessment of Story Comprehension (ASC)
  Qualifications and Training of Examiners
  Frequency and Timing of the ASC
  Materials and Setting
  Building Rapport and Managing Behaviors
  Specific Administration Guidelines

Chapter 4: Scoring the Assessment of Story Comprehension (ASC)
  Terms to Know
  General Rules and Scoring Tips
  Scoring Tips by Item
  Frequently Asked Scoring Questions
  Establishing and Maintaining Scoring Reliability
  Appendix: Extended Scoring Guides

Chapter 5: Using the Results of the Assessment of Story Comprehension (ASC)
  Interpretation of ASC scores
  Special Populations
  Sharing Results
  Linking to Intervention

Appendix A: Basic Scoring Guides
Appendix B: Fidelity Checklists
Appendix C: Practice Sets 1 and 2
References
Index

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The Listening Comprehension Test – Adolescent requires students to (a) pay careful attention to what they hear, (b) listen with a purpose in mind, and (c) remember what they hear well enough to think about it. Students must also avoid being impulsive in giving answers, and they must express answers verbally. The test can be used to identify students with listening comprehension issues and plan interventions.

Listening Comprehension Test – Adolescent: Examiner’s Manual & 20 Test Forms $190.00

The 5 subtests include:

The student identifies the main idea after listening to a passage read aloud and then must recall his background knowledge of the topic and process the overall meaning of the passage.

The student listens to a passage and answers a question about the details. The student must rely on grammar, vocabulary, and the semantics of the passage to comprehend the details.

Subtest C: Reasoning

This subtest taps into higher-level cognitive skills. The student infers answers from information presented verbally.

The student gives a one-word synonym or a descriptive definition for a word heard in a passage

The student listens to a short message and answers two questions about it.
Test Procedures

Testing Time

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SPICE 2nd Edition

SPICE is perfect for teachers of the deaf and SLPs looking for a curriculum for auditory skill development. It is designed to help you:

• evaluate a student’s speech perception abilities
• plan auditory skills instruction
• measure and record student progress and
• report to parents and other professionals.

From speech detection to suprasegmental perception, vowel and consonant perception and connected speech, SPICE includes skills and activities for beginning listeners and up.

This long-awaited, newly revised edition includes additional, updated picture cards organized in a user-friendly box, updated and additional toys, a revised rating form with new goals and a new, easy to follow manual. The curriculum incorporates the best of what CID teachers have learned using the original SPICE in the classroom for 20+ years.

New goals include perceiving voice and manner in words, perceiving morphemes in plural nouns and past tense verbs, imitating nonsense words and following directions. The kit contains everything you need to start laying the foundation for developing auditory skills with children aged 2-12 with cochlear implants and/or hearing aids.

If you are ordering multiple products from Supporting Success, you will receive the SPICE shipment separately.

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This new edition of the SPICE for Life includes those skills covered in the first edition:

• Improving auditory memory
• Listening to music
• Listening in noise
• Identifying environmental sounds
• Participating in conversation
• Listening to voices and
• Listening with technology

PLUS. . . 

• A new chapter devoted to auditory comprehension, encouraging students to move beyond memorization toward understanding
• Added goals within the conversation, voices and technology sections
• Digital access to sounds

The SPICE for Life 2 kit includes:

• A manual with research supporting each goal, as well as activities to support their development
• A color resource book with student worksheets, games and practice pages for home use
• A pad of rating forms
• Picture cards
• Listening scenes
• Multi-purpose game board

NEW to the SPICE for Life 2 is a weblink containing sounds to practice a variety of skills covered in the curriculum. This weblink can be accessed on a smart phone, tablet or desktop computer for convenience.

A downloadable copy of the resource book with digital pdf files is also included with your purchase for easy-to-print teaching materials and parent handouts.

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ESP – Early Speech Perception Test

The ESP comes with an extensive manual, low-verbal and standard scoring forms, 18 toys, full-color picture cards and a clinician-friendly CD with easy-to-use menus, digitally remastered sounds, two randomizations and an All Words menu.

The Early Speech Perception Test battery is a test of speech perception for children as young as 3 years old who are profoundly deaf. The ESP is typically used by audiologists and may be used to establish objectives and to measure effects of a hearing aid or a cochlear implant in terms of their impact on the child’s speech perception ability.

The kit includes a revised manual, low-verbal and standard scoring forms, 18 toys, full-color picture cards and a new, clinician-friendly CD featuring easy-to-use menus, digitally remastered sounds, two randomizations and a new All Words menu for use with set protocols and research. In this 2012 update, the original ESP (by Geers and Moog) is respected, but enhanced.

Scoring:  The ESP is a criterion-referenced tool that identifies speech perception in auditory training categories. When the child can do the task with accuracy, then the next category is trained. For example,  a child who can discriminate between spondees but cannot discriminate the vowel differences in mono-syllabic words would be a category 3 learner until they conquer mono-syllabic discrimination, which places them in a category 4. Since the ESP can be used prior to standardized tests, it allows a rubric of monitoring the child’s progress.

If you are ordering multiple products from Supporting Success, you will receive the ESP shipment separately.

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The TAPS-4 provides information about language processing and comprehension skills across three intersecting areas: phonological processing, auditory memory and listening comprehension.
These areas underpin the development of effective listening and communication skills and are critical to the development of higher order language skills, including literacy skills. AGES 5-21 years. Testing time 60 minutes or less.

The TAPS-4 features new subtests along with revisions to subtests, fully updated norms, and an expanded age range. The TAPS-4 subtests were also reorganized into Index and Supplemental subtests, reducing testing burden and increasing flexibility in administration. The TAPS-4 also features audio administration for the subtests in which proper pronunciation of speech sounds is critical, providing a greater degree of standardization and accuracy during the testing process (directly download audio files).
The TAPS-4 has 11 subtests, organized into three indices:

Includes: manual, 25 test booklets, administration CD for the optional figure-ground listening subtest.

Phonological Processing Index:

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Children with hearing loss are at high risk for delays in phonological awareness. This skill is heavily reliant upon fine auditory discrimination ability. Reading fluency requires that the individual has a clear, readily accessible mental referent of each of the phonemes. Any ‘mushy perceptions’ will cause confusion and slower reading speeds. At least average reading fluency abilities are necessary for a child to ‘read to learn’ after grade 3 and keep up with successively more challenging reading material.

Chipper Chat has easy-to-use quick assessments for each of the 12 phonological awareness areas allowing you to identify where to pinpoint your instruction and readily measure progress. All of the activities can be performed to strengthen auditory and pre-reading skills simultaneously or can be presented visually (cued speech or visual phonics) to children who are deaf visual learners. The engaging materials, fun magnetic wand and overall flexibility of Chipper Chat make it a great addition for ‘catching up’ children’s spotty early reading skills.
Say “at.” Now, put “ch” at the beginning. What do you get? “Chat,” as in “Chipper Chat!” – the coolest magnetic way to improve your students’ pre-reading skills! Phonological Awareness Chipper Chat is so comprehensive that it targets twelve different areas of phonological awareness skills. It is the ultimate resource for students who are pre-readers and students who have acquired some reading skills, but they need additional assistance in the area of phonological awareness.
Phonological Awareness Chipper Chat skills include:

• Discrimination of rhyming words
• Production of rhyming words
• Segmentation of words in a sentence
• Blending of syllables
• Segmentation of syllables
• Deletion of syllables

• Identification of phonemes
• Blending of phonemes
• Segmentation of phonemes
• Deletion of phonemes
• Addition of phonemes
• Manipulation of phonemes

With 450 items in each phonological area, students will have a phenomenal amount of phonological fun! That’s a grand total of 5,400 opportunities to improve pre-reading skills! Phonological Awareness Chipper Chatalso includes a “Quick Assessment” for each of the twelve areas. The “Quick Assessments” provide the teacher/therapist with an easy method to determine a starting point in the program, emerging skills of the student, and mastery of skills after remediation.
During the game, the students listen and respond to the phonological tasks. They earn chips as the game progresses. Then, the fun continues when the chips “fly up to the magic wand” at the end of the game!

Instructions
Phonological Awareness Chipper Chat

• A total of 60 individual game boards (5 boards for each of the 12 phonological skills, 11″ x 10″)
• 112-page lesson book with target items and reproducible masters for each game
• “Quick Assessments” for each phonological skill area
• Magnetic wand
• 100 magnetic chips
• Record sheet to track student progress
• Large die

The online Rubik’s solver program can find easily the moves to solve a scrambled cube.

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Test Purpose
Ages 6-11 years.The Listening Comprehension Test 2 assesses listening through natural classroom situations rather than evaluating listening through simple repetition or discrimination subtests. The tasks reveal students’ strengths and weaknesses in integrated language problem solving, reasoning, and comprehension of material presented auditorily.

Listening Comprehension Test 2: Examiner’s Manual & 20 Test Forms $190.00

Also see Listening Comprehension Test Adolescent

The Listening Comprehension Test 2 measures classroom listening behaviors in children ages 6-11:

• 
• Summarizing and Sequencing
• Participating in Discussions
• Following Directions
• Understanding the Main Idea
• Attending to Details
• Understanding Language Concepts
• Problem Solving and Predicting
• Listening for Meaning

The 5 subtests include:

• Subtest A: Main Idea
  The student identifies the main idea after listening to a passage read aloud by the examiner. The student must recall his background knowledge of the topic and process the overall meaning of the passage.
• Subtest B: Details
  The student listens to a passage and answers a question about the details. The student must rely on grammar, vocabulary, and the semantics of the passage to comprehend the details.
• Subtest C: Reasoning
  This subtest taps into higher-level cognitive skills. The student infers answers from information presented verbally.
• Subtest D: Vocabulary
  The student gives a one-word synonym or a descriptive definition for a word heard in a passage.
• Subtest E: Understanding Messages
  The student listens to a short message and answers two questions about it.

Test Procedures

• Begin testing with the demonstration item which is read aloud to the student. This item can be repeated, altered, or explained to show the student how to respond. Proceed to the first item and administer each task in its entirety.
• During administration you read a brief passage and then ask listening comprehension questions that target specific listening behaviors.

Testing Time

• 35 minutes

Examiner Qualifications
The test should only be administered by a trained professional familiar with language disorders (e.g., teacher of the deaf/hard of hearing, speech-language pathologist, psychologist).

Testing results generate normative scores, including age equivalencies, percentile rank and standard scores for each subtest and the total test score, which can then be charted on a performance grid.

Discussion of Performance
The Discussion of Performance section found in the Examiner’s Manual was developed to guide the examiner to make appropriate and educationally-relevant recommendations for remediation based on a clear understanding of each subtest.

The skills students need to be successful on each subtest are delineated and applied to classroom performance.

General remediation strategies for therapy, teachers, and parents to do are also included.

Standardization and Statistics
Two studies were conducted on The Listening Comprehension Test 2 – the item pool study and the standardization study. The test was standardized on 1,504 subjects that represented the 2000 National Census for race, gender, age, and educational placement. In addition, 251 subjects with language disorders were used in the validity studies.

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