Abstract
The study sought to determine the existence of several auditory perceptual skills (auditory discrimination, auditory memory, auditory blending, auditory-visual integration) as possible developmental tasks and to establish the reliability and subskill independence of an experimental readiness test battery measuring the same skills. Kindergarten, beginning first grade, and ending first grade pupils were used as the subjects to make cross group comparisons on mean scores and coefficients. Correlation coefficients indicated subskill uniqueness, and K-R 20 techniques produced substantial reliability coefficients. ANOVA comparisons followed by Scheffe tests highlighted group differences possibly indicating that the selected auditory perceptual skills could possibly be labeled as developmental tasks.