The MAndarin spoken word-Picture IDentification test in noise-Adaptive (MAPID-A) measures subtle speech-recognition-in-noise changes and spatial release from masking in very young children.

The narrow CIs, high test-retest reliability, and short testing time has proven that the MAPID-A is a promising sensitive, reliable and time-efficient clinical tool to detect subtle within-participant speech-recognition-in-noise changes in children as young as 4-5 years. The MAPID-A offers a clinical tool to behaviorally track young children's development in speech-recognition-in-noise and SRM, and to potentially review the development of the auditory neural pathway and the cerebral dominance for speech-recognition-in-noise in young children.