The assessment of reading readiness using multidimensionally scored time-compressed speech.

Normal-hearing children (39 M, 36 F) from a monolingual environment, aged 5 yrs 10 mo to 7 yrs 2 mo, of average or better intelligence, were selected as being at high, average, or low risk of reading readiness according to scores on the Lindamood Auditory Conceptualization (LAC) test. Ss were also given the Stephens Oral Language Screening Test (SOLST), emphasizing syntactical development. Ss were then tested for verbal respeating of taped 5-word sentences and 5-word 1st-order sentential approximations at 32 db SL re SRT.

Children's performance on multidimensionally scored time-compressed sentential stimuli.

Normative data were obtained for 96 children with normal auditory and language abilities in grades 2, 4, and 6 when presented monaurally with time-compressed (TC) sentences and 1st- and 2nd-order sentential approximations at 32 db re SRT. Oral responses were taped and multidimensionally scored in order to sensitize the test. Consistent with previous reports of normative data at other age levels, performance became poorer for 0 to either 40 or 60% TC (there was a negligible difference between the latter), was better for normal sentences than for sentential approximations, and improved slightly in the higher grades.

Normal-hearing teenagers' performance on time-compressed sentential stimuli.

Teenagers with normal hearing, reading, and learning abilities yielded normative data on time-compressed speech, either the Revised CID sentences or 3rd-order sentential approximations. There were 6 Ss, either all boys or all girls, in each of 12 subgroups combining age (median ages: 13, 15, 17 yrs), gender (M or F), SPL of test (45 or 60 db SPL), type of material ( RCIDs or sentential approximations), and percent time compression (0, 40, or 60%). The expected poorer performance was found with sentential approximations, either increased time compression, and with decreased level.

Adults' item and order errors on sequences of time-compressed rhyming words.

This investigation provided normative data for the intelligibility of time-compressed (TC) phonemes in 40 normal-hearing adults aged 18-26 yrs. Individual Ss were presented with 5-word rhyming sequences from the Fairbanks Rhyme Test (e.g.