SCAN-3C: Tests for Auditory Processing Disorders for Children

Robert W Keith

SCAN-3 provides you with a valid and reliable test battery to help identify auditory processing disorders and describe their impact in daily life. Screen and diagnose auditory processing diffi culties with one co-normed battery of tests.

Uses & Applications

Obtain information to help you differentiate an auditory processing disorder from auditory attention problems and auditory comprehension difficulties

Develop strategies to assist the child in managing auditory processing diffi culties at school, at home and in the community

Content & Administration

The SCAN-3 test battery includes:

Screening Tests

• NEW! Gap Detection—Indicates presence of a temporal processing problem which may influence the ability to comprehend running speech
• Auditory Figure Ground (+8dB)—Tests ability to listen with background noise

• Competing Words (Free Recall) — Dichotic listening task (poor performance may indicate lack of maturation or abnormality of the auditory nervous system)

Diagnostic Tests

• Filtered Words—Indicates ability to process speech when the signal is distorted or compromised by a poor acoustic environment
• Competing Words (Directed Ear)—Dichotic listening task that indicates a child’s auditory maturation or developmental level

• Competing Sentences—Provides information about the maturation of the auditory nervous system

Supplementary Tests

• Auditory Figure Ground (+0 dB and +12 dB)
• NEW! Time Compressed Sentences

Ear advantage scores are provided for all tests except Gap Detection.

Psychometric Information

Updated norms and continuous normative scores are provided across SCAN-3 Child and Adolescent/Adult editions so that you can continue to monitor progress as the child ages out of the SCAN-3:C for children.