Juliet's Audiology And Aural Rehabilitation

Front 1

What part of the ear functions as an impedance matching device for the auditory system?

Back 1

The middle ear

Front 2

What parts of the vestibular systems are responsive to linear acceleration?

Back 2

The saccule and utricle

Front 3

What part of the cochlea is the channel through which blood vessels and nerve fibers course?

Back 3

The modiolus

Front 4

What part of the brain connects both cerebral hemispheres?

Back 4

The corpus callosum

Front 5

What is the Dynamic Range?

Back 5

Dynamic Range is the range between the threshold of sensitivity and the threshold of discomfort.

Front 6

True or False. The middle ear is fluid filled and the inner ear is air filled.

Back 6

False

Front 7

What is the term used to describe a reduction in hearing sensitivity due to a disorder in the outer or middle ear?

Back 7

Conductive Hearing Loss

Front 8

What is the term used to describe a reduction in hearing sensitivity due to a combination of outer or middle and inner ear?

Back 8

Mixed Hearing Loss

Front 9

What is the term used to describe a reduction in hearing sensitivity due to the disorder of the cochlear?

Back 9

Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Front 10

The most common cause of transient conductive hearing loss in children is ....

Back 10

Ottis Media with Effusion

Front 11

What is Presbyacusis?

Back 11

Presbyacusis is a decline of the hearing process as a result of the aging process.

Front 12

What condition is characterized by vertigo, tinnitus, hearing loss and pressure in the affected ear?

Back 12

Menieres disease

Front 13

What is are differences in disorder detection between air conduction and bone conduction testing?

Back 13

Air conduction testing is used to reflects disorders along the entire conductive and sensorineural systems from middle ear to cochlear to auditory nerve. While bone conduction reflects only disorder in the cochlear and auditory nerve.

Front 14

What are Spondaic Words?

Back 14

Spondaic words are two syllable words spoken with equal emphasis on each syllable. eg.northwest, cowboy, hotdog

Front 15

List three immittance measures used in clinical assessments?

Back 15

Tympanometry, static immittance and acoustic reflex threshold

Front 16

True of false. On an audiogram, a square is used to notate air conduction results.

Back 16

False.

Front 17

List two sound resonators in the auditory system.

Back 17

1. Auricle - resonates enhances sound around 4500 Hz
2. External Auditory Meatus enhances sounds around 2700Hz

Front 18

What is the term used to define the length of time for a sine wave to complete one cycle?

Back 18

Period

Front 19

What is the back and forth movement of an object called?

Back 19

Simple Harmonic Motion

Front 20

What is the leading cause of sensorineural hearing loss, besides presbyacusis?

Back 20

Acoustic trauma

Front 21

What instrument measures the hearing sensitivity for a range of frequencies?

Back 21

Audiometer

Front 22

What is the air-bone gap?

Back 22

The air-bone gap is the difference between air and bone conduction thresholds. A difference may indicate a conductive component in hearing loss.

Front 23

List four Hearing Aids styles.

Back 23

1. Behind The Ear (BTE)
2. In The Ear (ITE)
3. In The Canal (ITC)
4. Completely In The Canal (CIC)

Front 24

Name 5 factors involved in the selection of hearing aids.

Back 24

1. Degree of hearing loss
2. User preference
3. Costs
4. Life styles
5. Physical status

Front 25

True or False. A cochlear implant is effective because it replaces the hair-cell transducer system by stimulating the auditory system directly, by-passing the damaged or missing hair-cells.

Back 25

True

Front 26

True or False. Only children 5 years and older are suitable candidates for cochlear implants.

Back 26

False. Children as young as 12 months can be fitted with cochlear implants.

Front 27

True or False. A speech-language pathologist is responsible for fitting patients for a hearing aid.

Back 27

Fasle

Front 28

What are Tactile Aids?

Back 28

Tactile Aids are devices that permit sounds awareness by vibrotactile sensation to the user skin.

Front 29

What are the 3 fundamental components of a hearing aid?

Back 29

1. A microphone
2. An amplifier
3. A receiver

Front 30

What are the four design principles of Auditory Training curricula?

Back 30

1. Auditory Skill
2. Stimuli
3. Activity Type
4. Difficulty level

Front 31

What is the term used to define the prosodic aspects of speech including variation in pitch, rate, intensity and duration?

Back 31

Suprasegmentals

Front 32

What is the consonant feature that is typically most difficult for persons with hearing loss to hear?

Back 32

Place of articulation

Front 33

An activity where a client is asked to discriminate word pairs is best described as ...

Back 33

Analytic training

Front 34

What are Visemes?

Back 34

Visemes are groups of speech sounds that appear identical on the lips for example p, b, m

Front 35

What are Homophenes?

Back 35

Homophenes are words that look identical on the mouth

Front 36

Researchers have classified hand gestures to what six categories?

Back 36

1. Emblematic - V for victory sign
2. Iconic
3. Metaphoric
4. Deictic
5. Beat
6. Regulatory

Front 37

What are repair strategies?

Back 37

Repair strategies are tactics implemented by participants in a conversation to rectify breakdown in communication.

Front 38

List 4 kinds of communication styles?

Back 38

1. Passive
2. Aggressive
3. Passive-Aggressive
Assertive

Front 39

What is Personal Adjustment Counseling?

Back 39

Personal Adjustment Counseling is focuses on the permanency of the hearing loss and the psychological, social and emotional acceptance.

Front 40

What is a Noise Notch?

Back 40

A Noise Notch is a pattern of audiometric thresholds characterized by a dip in hearing sensitivity at 4,000Hz and is often found in someone who has a history of noise exposure