LIFEUK Listening Inventories for Education UK version

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LIFE-UKListening Inventories for Education UK
version

• LIFEUK were developed in 1998 to be used during
  in a national trial of Classroom Soundfield
  Amplification.
• The LIFE UK inventories are a modified form of
  the LIFE inventories created by K Anderson and J
  Smaldino (can be purchased from the US EAA
  website)

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LIFE UK

• Now a growing family of assessments
• LIFEUK suited to assessing impact of whole
  classroom modifications
• Includes teacher pre and post intervention
  assessments
• Teacher benefit scales
• LIFE-UK IHP (Individual Hearing Profile)
• Specifically aimed at the hearing aid user and
  cochlear implant user.

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LIFE UK

• All printable resources are freely available to
  download from the Web
• www.hear2learn.com
• Latest updates will be posted as they are
  developed.
• All users are asked to register their details and
  be prepared to support future development if
  requested.

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LIFE UK

• The original aims of the LIFE questionnaire were
• (1) provide a student self report measurement
  tool to identify classroom situations which
  present a listening challenge for an individual
  student.
• (2) provide a teacher report measurement tools to
  be used to document the effects of interventions
  to improve the listening environment of a
  particular student,
• (3) provide a valid and reliable measurement tool
  which could be used in a pre-test and post-test
  format to document the effectiveness of
  intervention utilized to improve the classroom
  listening environment.
• (4) provide material which can be used for
  in-service training of school personnel as to
  the challenges of listening in the classroom,
  making teachers and students aware of particular
  classroom listening challenges and
• (5) arm the teacher and students with information
  to encourage self-advocacy for good classroom
  listening environments1.
• 1 Anderson and Smaldino (1998) LIFE An
  Efficacy Instrument, EAA

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LIFE UK

• Illustrate LIFEUK in 3 contexts
• Whole Classroom SFA use
• Assessment of an individual benefit
• MHAS Paediatric Trials
• Introduce the revised LIFE-UK for use
  specifically with Hearing Impaired Children using
  hearing aids or cochlear implants

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Efficacy measures (Pupils) LIFE UK

• Whole Classroom SFA use

• Pupils were asked to rate the ease or difficulty
  with which they could hear a speakers words in a
  variety of situations.
• The test has been carried out on 600 children in
  the UK.
• Tests have demonstrated the task to be highly
  reliable.

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Examples of the LIFE Pupils (Primary)
10a.
The teacher is giving a test to the class.
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Results for Ruths Class
Blue before
Red after
Increasing Ease of hearing
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Efficacy measures (Teachers) LIFE UK

• 16 points were identified and rated by the
  teacher
• Overall there was a substantial ve change e.g.
• Improved attention span
• Stays on task longer
• Follows directions more quickly or easily
• More time teaching, less time in class management

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LIFE SFA trial
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Nightingales Result
The improvements in the classroom listening
environment following the installation of a
soundfield system were not apparent when using
traditional acoustic measures such as
reverberation time, speech transmission index
(STI) and loss of consonants (Alcons). The
improvements were however evident in the LIFEUK
scores and in teacher scores on the LIFEUK
questionnaires.
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LIFE UK in Resourced Provision for the deaf
child in mainstream class
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LIFE UK in Resourced Provision for the deaf
child in mainstream class
Areas for intervention
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LIFE UK in Resourced Provision for the all
children in mainstream classes
Mean
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LIFE UK in Resourced Provision for the all deaf
children in mainstream classes
Mean
Areas gt3 and significantly different to rest of
mainstream Need attention
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Mild SNHL Year 6 boy unaided (hearing aid not
successfully used)
Intervention Classroom Sound field System
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LIFE UK Analysis

• LIFEUK can be analysed according to the type of
  exchanges that take place in the classroom
• Teacher to child exchanges
• Child to child exchanges
• Either in noise or quiet
• With or without the possibility of lip-reading

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LIFE UK and MHAS
Teacher to child With lipreading In quiet
Teacher to child With lipreading With Noise
Teacher to child No lipreading With Noise
Child to child With lipreading In quiet
Teacher to child No lipreading With Noise
Child to child No lipreading With Noise
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LIFE UK Analysis
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LIFE-UK IHP

• LIFE-UK IHP Listening Inventories for Education
  UK Individual Hearing Profile
• In the light of data gathered the LIFEUK had been
  developed to incorporate several changes
• 1 Changes in content This now include examples
  of all types of exchanges that take place within
  the school setting

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LIFE-UK IHP

• 2 Change in scoring to reflect users wishes and
  greater clarity in analysis of results

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LIFE-UK IHP

• A computerised version of LIFE-UK IHP is
  currently being developed. It incorporates an
  automatic scoring and report facility. We would
  like to seek the cooperation of people interested
  in developing this further.

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LIFE-UK IHP

• Available as a free download at
  www.hear2learn.com
• As this is continues to develop we are keen to
  receive feedback and data from all using LIFE-UK
  IHP