The Children's Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (CHIPASAT) was developed to assess auditory verbal attention in children. Using data obtained during our 1991 study of test-retest reliability for a normal sample, we evaluated the mean information-processing rates for the 4 paced trials. Analysis suggests that normal children can maintain a relatively uniform information-processing rate, even when the presentation rate has been doubled.
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