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🌐 Bilingual / EB Evaluation Note | TAPS-3 Spanish is the primary bilingual auditory processing tool in this battery. Spanish normative data allows valid score interpretation for Spanish-dominant students. Cards with a teal left border include Spanish norms. TAPS-4 does not currently include a Spanish normative sample — use TAPS-3 Spanish for EB evaluations.
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Domain
Bilingual
TAPS-3 English · Composites (Ages 4–18)
Phonological Awareness: Word Discrimination + Phonological Segmentation + Phonological Blending
Auditory Memory: Number Memory Forward + Number Memory Reversed + Word Memory + Sentence Memory
Auditory Cohesion: Auditory Comprehension + Auditory Reasoning
Overall Auditory Processing: All core subtests combined
TAPS-3 Spanish · Composites ESPAÑOL
Mirrors TAPS-3 English composite structure with Spanish normative sample (ages 5–18).
Phonological Awareness: Discriminación de Palabras + Segmentación Fonológica + Mezcla Fonológica
Memoria Auditiva: Memoria de Números (DA) + Memoria de Números (DI) + Memoria de Palabras + Memoria de Oraciones
Cohesión Auditiva: Comprensión Auditiva + Razonamiento Auditivo
✓ Valid for Spanish-dominant EB students; cite Spanish norms in FIE
TAPS-4 · Composites (Ages 4–18)
Basic Auditory Skills: Auditory Figure-Ground + Auditory Discrimination
Auditory Memory: Number Memory Forward + Number Memory Reversed + Word Memory + Sentence Memory
Phonological Processing: Phonological Segmentation + Phonological Blending
Overall Auditory Processing: All core subtests combined
⚠ No Spanish normative sample — use TAPS-3 Spanish for EB evals
Score Notes
TAPS-3 & TAPS-4 composites: standard scores (M=100, SD=15)
TAPS-3 & TAPS-4 subtests: scaled scores (M=10, SD=3)
Significant deficit: composite SS ≤85 (1 SD below); severe: ≤70 (2 SD)
TAPS-3 Spanish: cite Spanish norms explicitly in FIE ("scores reflect performance relative to Spanish-speaking normative sample")
TAPS-3→4 structural changes: Word Discrimination renamed/restructured; Auditory Figure-Ground added (TAPS-4 only); Auditory Cohesion dropped from TAPS-4
↕ TAPS-3 and TAPS-4 share most subtest names but differ in composite structure. TAPS-4 added Auditory Figure-Ground and restructured cohesion tasks. For EB evaluations, TAPS-3 Spanish is the normed instrument — TAPS-4 results for Spanish-dominant students should be interpreted with caution and noted as based on English norms.
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