Translation and adaptation of functional auditory performance indicators (FAPI)

Area of Science:

• Audiology
• Speech-Language Pathology
• Developmental Pediatrics

Background:

• Therapeutic goals for deaf children now include language development, necessitating accurate hearing assessment tools.
• Existing clinical tests for evaluating speech sound perception in children are limited in Portuguese.
• The Functional Auditory Performance Indicators (FAPI) provides a hierarchical profile of auditory skills.

Purpose of the Study:

• To adapt the American Functional Auditory Performance Indicators (FAPI) inventory for the Brazilian population.
• To ensure the translated FAPI is suitable for assessing auditory skills in Brazilian children.

Main Methods:

• The FAPI inventory underwent translation and back-translation.
• Reproducibility was assessed by comparing original and back-translated versions.
• Revisions were made to ensure linguistic, grammatical, and idiomatic equivalence.

Main Results:

• The Functional Auditory Performance Indicators (FAPI) inventory was successfully translated and adapted.
• The adapted version is linguistically and grammatically equivalent to the original.

Conclusions:

• The translated FAPI requires further studies for clinical application in Brazil.
• Additional research is needed to establish the test's practicability for Brazilian clinicians and patients.