A study comparing individual and group results of auditory discrimination testing

Speech sound discrimination ability has been suggested by many writers to have profound effects upon an individual's oral or written language skills. Deficits in this area may often go undetected or, when suspected, remain inadequately assessed. The identification and assessment of auditory discrimination deficits has often been deleted from school programs or inadequately done due to the designation of testing tools designed for individual as opposed to group administration. The marking of subject responses by the examiner has made the time to administer, mark the individual response forms and score the test prohibitive.In this study two procedures were used to examine individual and group administration of auditory discrimination testing. The first method was the testing of subjects using the quiet and noise subtests of the Goldman-Fristoe-Woodcock Auditory DiscriminationTest in an individual testing setting. testing of the same subjects using the ministered in a group setting.The purpose of the study was to test the hypothesis that no significant difference exists in the results of the Goldman-FrisoteWoodcock Test of Auditory Discrimination given by individual or group methods.Thesis (M.A.