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Chapter 15: Other Areas of Assessment A. Assessment of Hearing B. Physical and Occupational Therapy C. Multicultural Assessment Brief Summary Chapter 15 will discuss three other areas of assessment. These areas are the assessment of hearing, the roles and responsibilities of the physical and occupational therapist, and multicultural assessment. After reading this chapter your students should understand the following: 􀂃 Assessment of hearing 􀂃 Assessment measures of hearing 􀂃 Occupational and Physical therapy measures 􀂃 Multicultural assessment Lecture and Discussion Outline I. Assessment of Hearing A. Overview 1. Deafness 2. Hearing impairment B. Causes of Hearing Impairments 1. Conductive Hearing Loss 2. Sensorineural Hearing Loss 3. Mixed Hearing Loss 4. Functional Hearing Loss 5. Central Auditory Disorders C. Degrees of Hearing Impairment 1. Degree of decibel loss 2. Resulting impairment 3. Hearing loss D. Audiometric Tests 1. Audiometric Evaluation Measures 2. Special Audiometric Tests E. Assessment Measures 1. Auditory Perception Test for the Hearing Impaired (APT/HI) 2. Carolina Picture Vocabulary Test For Deaf and Hearing Impaired (CPVT) 3. Hiskey-Nebraska Test of Learning Aptitude 123 4. Leiter-R International Performance Scale (LEITER-R) 5. Rhode Island Test of Language Structure (RITLS) 6. Screening Instrument for Targeting Educational Risk (SIFTER) 7. Test of Early Reading Ability-2:Deaf or Hard of Hearing (TERA-2 D/HH) II. Occupational and Physical Therapy Assessment A. Overview B. Evaluations C. Assessment Areas D. The Therapist's Many Roles E. Assessment Measures 1. First Step: Screening Test for Evaluating Preschoolers (FIRSTep) 2. Quick Neurological Screening Test (QNST) 3. Sensory Integration and Praxis Test (SIPT) III. Multicultural Assessment A. Overview B. Review of legal court cases and laws C. Pre-referral process in bilingual assessment D. Dominant Language E. Referral of Cultural and Linguistically Diverse Students