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would be more desirable than "ketchup." The researchers conducted online image
searches and compiled open license audio files and pictures into an electronic slide
show format. These pictures were presented in Microsoft PowerPoint on a 14 inch
laptop. This initial version was pilot tested with four children with normal vision in
a university speech and language clinic. During this piloting testing, the
researchers administered the assessment to four children to investigate if the
auditory cues were effective in efficiently eliciting the desired responses. This pilot
testing resulted in some item changes, substituting new words for those that the
participants had difficulty identifying. The researchers also added a spoken
introduction (e.g., "This animal purrs when it is happy") prior to playing the
auditory cue (e.g., purring cat sound). The researchers piloted the second version,
which yielded the desired levels of participant responses. The final assessment
included 35 target words, and took approximately 20 minutes to administer. This
assessment included all speech sounds assessed by the GFTA-2.
Procedures
All students passed a 20dB hearing screening for 500 to 4000 Hz
administered by the investigators or had passed a hearing screening administered
by a certified speech-language pathologist within the recent months prior to the
investigators' data collection visits to the schools.
