PA Assessment with Undergraduate College Students.Disability assessment is 
also important for examining PA competency among education majors/professionals and SLP 
majors/professionals (Carroll et al., 2012; Hall-Mills & Bourgeois, 2008; Hillenbrand, 2017; 
Moran & Fitch, 2001; Robinson et al., 2011; Sayeski et al., 2017; Spencer et al., 2011; Werfel, 
2017; Westerveld & Barton, 2016).Of the few studies located that 
assessed some level of phonological processing and/or PA skill for undergraduate college-aged 
students with an unspecified major, both studies recruited a portion of their participants from 
undergraduate speech-language pathology courses but did not compare them with participants in 
the group from other majors (Henbest, et al., 2020; Katz & Moore, 2021).Hurford and colleagues (2016) compared the phonological 
awareness abilities of education majors with non-education majors utilizing a number of subtests 
from the Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing (CTOPP). These
students have primarily been evaluated for learning disability, as college students with learning 
disabilities may have difficulty meeting the reading and writing demands in higher education (Del 
Tufo & Earle, 2020; Earle & Del Tufo, 2021; Wilson & Lesaux, 2001).Interestingly, it appears that adolescent and adult readers may have variable performance 
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