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www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.auSpeak Out
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Trish Johnson
Senior Advisor, Ethics and Professional Issues
The hearing check that's child's play
Introducing the new Sound Scouts App - a fun game, played on a tablet with a set of
headphones that accurately checks a child's hearing. Developed in collaboration with the
National Acoustic Laboratories, supported by NSW Health and recommended by Australian
Hearing, Sound Scouts is the ideal hearing check solution for children
A triage tool to identify hearing issues
Suitable for children aged 4yrs 9mths to
12yrs
Test at home or in clinic in under 20 mins
Reliable results for conductive and
sensorineural hearing loss and an
indication of auditory processing disorder
Visit
soundscouts.com.auor download from the App Store or Google Play today.
Check Children's Hearing in Clinic or at Home
Sound Scouts
For more information and
FREE TRIAL
VALUED AT $15
Offer ends: 1 March 2017
Features
• comprehensive - 24 single consonants and
27 consonant blends (120 target sounds)
• durable - laminated picture sheets
• referenced against 299 children with normal
speech growing up in Australia
• data available for 3 years and 5 months to 7
years and 11 months
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Developed and used by Speech Pathology at The Royal Children’s
Hospital in Melbourne, the articulation survey is an assessment tool
used to screen how a child says sounds in words.
• Easily administered
– does not require special training
• Quick
– takes 10-15 minutes to administer and score
• Non-speech pathologists can use the test
Can also be used for:
• Providing an articulation score for research data
• quantifying a change in articulation over time
• comparing a child’s score against an Australian
reference group score
To order or learn more about the articulation
survey, visit the articulation survey website at
www.rch.org.au/articsurvey