MAPA-2: Multiple Auditory Processing Assessment, 2Ed.

Description

The MAPA-2 includes eight different subtests in the three domains (monaural, temporal, and binaural) that ASHA and AAA recommend for auditory processing assessment along with the Scale of Auditory Behaviours, a 12-item parent or teacher completed questionnaire of listening behaviours.

Monaural: Evaluate an individual’s ability to use low redundancy information.

1. Monaural-Selective Attention Test (MSAAT): Assesses an individual’s ability to recognise monosyllabic words with and without competing background noise of high-interest speech
2. Speech in Noise for Children (SINCA): Assesses an individual’s ability to recognise monosyllabic word pairs presented with competing pink noise at progressively decreasing signal-to-noise ratios

   Temporal: Evaluate an individual’s ability to use acoustic information over time.

3. Tap Test: Assesses an individual’s ability to recognise and label an auditory pattern
4. Pitch Pattern Test: Assesses an individual’s ability to use cues including rate and pattern and to label what is heard

   Binaural: Evaluate an individual’s ability to use unique information presented simultaneously to each ear.

5. Dichotic Digits: Assesses an individual’s ability to recognise digit sequences when digit pairs are presented simultaneously to each ear
6. Competing Sentences: Assesses an individual’s ability to recognise more complex language sequences presented simultaneously to each ear

   Supplemental Subtests: Additional tests that can be used to assess an individual’s skill in the temporal area.

7. Duration Pattern Test: Assesses an individual’s ability to use cues including rate and pattern and to label what is heard
8. Gap Detection Test: Assesses an individual’s temporal resolution abilities using intervals of varying length between stimuli
9. Scale of Auditory Behaviours: An informal, 12-item, parent-or teacher-completed questionnaire of listening behaviours.

The MAPA-2 was standardised on a nationally representative sample of 748 children and adolescents.