The identification and assessment of children with possible auditory disorders present the speech language pathologist with a set of problems that are quite familiar. The problems revolve around a set of decisions regarding what testing is necessary, what is "merely" interesting, and what testing may lead to new information. Certain testing is required in order to rule out or document that a problem exists, to determine, the type and magnitude of the problem, and to establish a meaningful basis for recommending intervention. Other test approaches may be interesting and lead to a better understanding of the child's problem, although they may not be critical to the determination of remediation approaches. And finally, some test approaches may lead to unexpected new in formation about the child. The purpose of this articles is to provide specific information about the authors views of the interdisciplinary team approach to this problem. Each of the members of this team has a different responsability in the identification, assessment and remediation of children with auditory processing disorders. We will try to define those roles in this article.
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