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Infant-Toddler: Meaningful Auditory Integration Scale
(IT-MAIS)
(Zimmerman-Phillips, Osberger, and Robbins, 1997)
Recommended age: Birth to 3 years
Description: The Infant-Toddler Meaningful Auditory Integration Scale (IT-MAIS)
(Zimmerman-Phillips 2000) is a modification of the Meaningful Auditory
Integration Scale (MAIS) (Robbins et al, 1991). It is a structured interview
schedule designed to assess the child’s spontaneous responses to sound in
his/her everyday environment. The assessment is based on information provided
by the child’s parent(s) in response to 10 probes, which assess three main areas:
1) vocalization behavior, 2) alerting to sounds, and 3) deriving meaning from
sound. Specific scoring criteria have been developed for each of the 10 probes.
Download from:
http://www.advancedbionics.com/For_Professionals/Audiology_Support/Infant_
Toddler_Meaningful_Auditory_Integration_Scale_ITMAIS.cfm?langid=1
Iowa Sound Quality Test
(Tyler, 2003)
Recommended Age: 12 years and up
Description: The Iowa Sound Quality Test consists of 6 categories of sounds: adult
voices, children’s voices, everyday sounds, music, and speech in noise. Each
category contains 16 sound samples for a total of 96 items. The subject listens to
each randomly played sound, presented at 70 dB(C) SPL, emanating from a
loudspeaker placed at 0 degrees azimuth. Using a computer touch screen, the
subject rates the sound’s clarity ranging anywhere from zero (unclear) to 100
(clear) by touching a visual analog scale that represents the perceived clarity of
the sound.
Order from:
Rich Tyler
rich-tyler@uiowa.edu
Test Reference 17 February 2010