In this website you will find:

TEST INSTRUMENTS
Screening Instrument For Targeting Educational Risk (SIFTER)

Preschool SIFTER

Secondary SIFTER

Listening Inventory For Education (LIFE)

Children's Home Inventory of Listening Difficulty (CHILD)

Early Listening Function (ELF)

HANDOUTS
Relationship of Hearing Loss to Listening and Learning Needs

Welcoming the Child with Hearing Loss into Child Care

Summary of 3 FM Study Comparing Speech Perception in a Typical Classroom for Children with Hearing Aids or Cochlear Implants

The Problem of Classroom Acoustics: Listening to Learn in a Sea of Noise

Link to SHINE handouts on early intervention

SAMPLE PRESENTATIONS
Determining the Need and Benefit of FM

Speech Perception in the Classroom

Learning in Sea of Noise

Curriculum Vita

Karen Anderson has been an audiologist for over 25 years, specializing in educational audiology, identification and intervention of infants with hearing loss, and classroom acoustics.


Dr. Anderson has been the author or co-author of numerous test instruments, articles, and handouts useful for school staff or parents and has presented widely on these topics.


On this website are pdf versions of commonly requested tests and handouts. Sample powerpoint presentations and Dr. Anderson's CV are also available.