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What therapy approach is best for a person that wants to only use sign language?
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Manual Approach
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What is a common cause of hearing aid feedback?
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Excessive Cerumen
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What is the Rochester Method?
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Using both oral and fingerspelling with no signs.
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How many hand shapes are there in cued speech?
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Eight hand shapes.
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What is reverberation?
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It magnifies the effects of classroom noise.
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What is the average noise in typical classroom?
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50-60dB
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What percentage of words can be recognized in a vision-only condition?
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Fewer than 20%.
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What is the first step in Classical Auditory Training?
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Sound Awareness
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What is the criteria to have cochlear implantation?
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You must have bilateral hearing loss, low frequencies (<70dB), high frequencies (>90dB), and an aided word score of 30% or less.
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What are the different forms of amplification?
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Hearing aids, cochlear implants, tactile aids, and assistive devices.
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What are two major considerations when considering someone as a candidate for amplification?
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Do they truly need amplification and are they motivated to use the amplification.
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What are the advantages of digital hearing aids?
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They are more flexible, they amplify selected frequencies, they are more effective in reducing irritating loud noises, and provide a better signal-to-noise ratio.
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What are tactile aids?
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They are aids that help with the comprehension of speech by the means of touch.
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What is the Tadoma method?
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A manual system which involves placing one's hands on the speaker's face to feel the vibrations.
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Who is the Tadoma method most beneficial for?
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People who are deaf and blind.
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What device allows people who are deaf to us the telephone?
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The telecommunication devices for the deaf (TDDs).
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When is it appropriate to have a central electroauditory prosthesis (CEP)?
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When the cochlea and its hair cells are damaged to such an extent that a cochlear implant will not work.
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What are the four elements to a cochlear implant?
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A microphone, a processor, an external transmitter, and an implanted receiver.
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What is the signal-to-noise ratio?
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The difference in dB between the signal of interest to the completing background noise.
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What method is a client using if they are using both verbal and nonverbal means of communication?
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Total Communication
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Which approach views themselves as part of the Deaf culture?
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The Manual Approach
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Which method makes use of the client's residual hearing through amplification?
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The Aural/Oral Method
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Which method uses oral speech along with fingerspelling, but uses no signs?
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The Rochester Method
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Is ASL a manual version of English?
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No.
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Do children with hearing impairments have challenges with pragmatic skills?
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Yes.
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