General Life Satisfaction

A computer-adaptive test (CAT) or fixed form (FF) assessment of the participant’s cognitive evaluation of life experiences and whether the participant likes his or her life.

Friendship

A computer-adaptive test (CAT) assessment of the participant’s perceptions of the availability of friends or companions with whom to interact or affiliate.

Emotional Support

A computer-adaptive test (CAT) assessment of the participant’s perception that people in his or her social network are available to listen to his or her problems with empathy, caring, and understanding.

Words-In-Noise Test

An assessment of the ability to recognize single words amid varying levels of background noise. The participant is asked to repeat the words presented by the audio.

Visual Acuity Test

An assessment of distance vision. Participants are asked to sit 3 meters from the iPad and identify the letters that appear on the screen, either verbally (ages 3-7 & ages 8+) or by pointing to the same letter on a card in front of them (ages 3-7).

Regional Taste Intensity Test

An assessment of taste sensitivity. Participants are asked to rate the intensity of salty and bitter solutions on the tip of their tongue and mouth.