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A hearing impairment in older adults that results in a sloping high-frequency loss, is called?
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Presbycusis
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What are speech reception thresholds (SRT)?
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The lowest level of hearing at which a person can understand 50% of the words presented.
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If a tympanogram is type C the likely cause is?
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Eustachian Tube Dysfunction
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What is the muscle that allows the eustachian tube to open during yawning and swallowing?
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Tensor Palatini
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What are words that look the same on the lips called?
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Homophenous pairs
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What hearing screening should you use for preschool aged children?
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Conditioned Play Audiometry (CPA)
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What does the tympanogram test?
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The middle ear function.
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What type of hearing loss is otosclerosis?
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A conductive hearing loss.
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What are the common symptoms of an acoustic neuroma?
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Disturbed balance, vertigo, pressure in the ear, and tinnitus.
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What is Carhart's notch?
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A specific loss at 2,000 Hz as indicated by bone-conduction testing.
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What are the two branches of the auditory nervous system?
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The vestibular branch and the auditory-acoustic branch.
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What is aural atresia?
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The external ear canal is completely closed.
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What type of hearing loss has good word recognition?
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A conductive hearing loss.
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Type Ad typanograms are caused by?
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An interrupted ossicular chain.
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Which type of hearing loss is permanent?
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A sensorineural hearing loss is permanent because of the damage to the hair cells that are not repairable.
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Which type of hearing loss tends to speak to softly?
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A conductive hearing loss, because the person can hear their own voice.
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What is the moderately severe hearing loss range?
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56 to 70dB
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A noise induced hearing loss is what type of hearing loss?
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A sensorineural loss.
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What is a mixed hearing loss?
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Neither the middle nor the inner ear is functioning properly.
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Who would you use dichotic listening tasks with?
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A person with central auditory disorder.
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What hearing test should be used to test the hearing of newborn infants?
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Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR)
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A noise induced hearing loss has a greater loss between what Hz?
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Between 3,000 and 6,000 Hz.
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At what age do babies turn their head toward the source of a sound?
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3-4 months
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Otitis media causes what type of hearing loss.
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Conductive hearing loss.
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What type of tympanogram would a person with otitis media have?
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Type B
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