The WPST was developed to allow carrying out a quick but still meaningful examination of the perception selectivity between the six plosives in combination with a choice-reaction test even for children in pre-school age.
Both deficits that occur in a slow classification of stimuli and the linguistic deficit that comes out in a slow lexical access speed will be detected and quantified. This works in the following way:
The tested child has to repeat the 60 single syllables that it hears through headphones as fast as possible into a microphone. The test syllables consist of a random array of ba-da-ga-ka-pa-ta. Both the correct repetition and the reaction time passing between the model word and the repeated word will be measured and evaluated. Thus the child will be exposed to a classroom-like stress atmosphere.
During the main test the testing person checks whether the repeated syllables are correct or wrong and indicates the program unnoticed of the child that a mistake occurred without influencing the time or the run of the test.
The program measures for each single syllable and for each kind of syllable the time in milliseconds that passed between the beginning of the plosive of the model word and the repeated word. Moreover it calculates for each kind of syllable as well as for all kinds of syllables together the average values of the reaction time altogether seven values. These values as well as the percentage of correct answers per kind of syllable and the ones of all syllables will be displayed at the end of the test. You also have the opportunity to save the data using the name of the child and print out the results. Comparative data is already integrated into the program help.
: The program is also appropriate for the training of the perception selectivity!
TIP
Pentium Processor with Windows 95/98/XP
Duplex compatible Soundcard, CD-Rom
Additionally: high quality headphones (f.e. MT-70), high quality microphone (f.e. MT-DS-50)
System Requirements:
Demo Version
A demo version is available for this program. The pre-test that should be carried out before a test cycle is accessible without restriction - allowing you to get to know and test the program.
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