What areas are we looking at?
- speech understanding
- word activation
- transformational perception
- auditory perception
- auditory attention
- verbal and visual memory
- seriality (sequentiality)
- speech sound differentiation ability
These are all areas that require an adequate level of development to learn to read, write and count fluently.
Where necessary, the development of these areas is individualised based on the results of the tests.
It is recommended that two tests are taken before the GMP test:
an ear, nose and throat examination and an audiology extended hearing test.
Symptoms/signs that may indicate the need for an investigation:
- prolonged speech therapy problem (stubborn, difficult or slow to correct voice problems)
- child has difficulty learning a new word/song/poem
- does not/has difficulty remembering the content of a story
- often asks back
- frequent upper respiratory tract infections
- frequent middle ear infections
- delayed speech development
- vocabulary poor, slow to develop
- difficulty understanding and following verbal instructions
- easily distracted
- reading and spelling difficulties at school
