01 - Book, Ch. 1

Question 0

What is the of goal aural rehabilitation?

Answer 0

To alleviate difficulties related to hearing loss

To minimize the consequences of hearing loss

Question 1

Hearing loss has been called the ______.

Answer 1

Invisible Condition

Question 2

What is conversational fluency?

Answer 2

How smoothly a conversation flows

Question 3

Can conversational fluency be affected by hearing loss?

Answer 3

Yes!

Question 4

What is a hearing related disability?

Answer 4

The loss of functionality that comes from a hearing impairment

Question 5

Is a hearing related disability a multidimensional problem?

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

What two conditions interact with each other in creating a hearing related disability?

Answer 6

The patient’s hearing impairment and the patient’s real world environment

Question 7

What word is used to describe children who are receiving aural rehabilitation?

Answer 7

Students

Especially in educational settings

Question 8

What words are used to describe adults who are receiving aural rehabilitation?

Answer 8

Patients (Most used)

Clients

Consumers

Question 9

What does impairment mean?

Answer 9

A loss of function

Question 10

What is a handicap?

Answer 10

A social/vocational consequence of a disability

Some consider this term stigmatizing and prefer “disabled” instead

Question 11

What does WHO stand for?

Answer 11

World Health Organization

Question 12

What words can we use to describe the way hearing loss affects an individual in their career and everyday life?

Answer 12

Activity limitations

Participation restrictions

Question 13

How do frequent communication partners affect those with hearing loss?

Answer 13

Their attitudes and behaviors have a large bearing on the on the patient’s degree of life

Question 14

What are three psychological factors that affect an individual’s attitude towards hearing loss?

Answer 14

Self-image

Motivation

Assertiveness

Question 15

Does the society/culture of the patient affect their view of hearing loss?

Answer 15

Yes

Question 16

What do we call the assessment of hearing loss and speech recognition skills?

Answer 16

Diagnostics and quantification of hearing loss

Question 17

What is the provision of appropriate listening devices?

Answer 17

Setting someone up with hearing aids, a tactile aid listening device, or cochlear implants + follow up services

Question 18

What is auditory training?

Answer 18

Structured and unstructured listening practice

Question 19

What is communication strategies training?

Answer 19

Teaching strategies that enhance conversation and minimize communication difficulties

Question 20

What is informational/educational counseling?

Answer 20

Instructing a patient about normal hearing, hearing loss, listening device technology, speech perception, and other available services

Question 21

What is psychosocial support? Who is it for?

Answer 21

Addressing the psychological and social impact of hearing loss

On the patient, on family, on friends, and/or on co-workers

Question 22

What is frequent communication partner training?

Answer 22

Communication training for spouses, partners, family members, friends, co-workers, etc.

Question 23

What is speech reading training?

Answer 23

Training someone in speech recognition via both visual and auditory channels

Question 24

What is speech-language therapy?

Answer 24

It is mainly used for children

Training that emphasizes developing strategies to monitor one’s own speech as well as developing vocabulary, syntax, and pragmatics

Question 25

What is in-service training?

Answer 25

Specialized training for professions in other fields that may work with those who have hearing loss

(Teachers, nursing home caregivers, etc.)

Question 26

What is aural habilitation?

Answer 26

Auditory training but for those who were born hearing impaired

Question 27

What does audiologic rehabilitation emphasize?

Answer 27

Diagnosis of hearing loss and the provision of listening devices

Has less emphasis on follow-up support services

Question 28

Who provides aural rehabilitation services?

Answer 28

Audiologists

SLPs

Teachers for the Deaf & hard-of-hearing

Question 29

Who usually takes the primary role on an aural rehabilitation team?

Answer 29

The audiologist, but sometimes it’s the SLP

Question 30

What do we call hearing loss that is present before birth or due to the birthing process?

Answer 30

Congenital HL

Question 31

What do we call hearing loss that occurs before the acquisition of spoken language?

Answer 31

Prelingual HL

Question 32

What do we call hearing loss that occurs after speech begins developing but before speech is mastered?

Answer 32

Perilingual HL

Question 33

What do we call hearing loss that occurs after speech has been fully acquired?

Answer 33

Postlingual hearing loss

Question 34

What is the opposite of congenital hearing loss?

Answer 34

Acquired HL

Question 35

What is an unserved population?

Answer 35

A group of people that is not receiving services due to policy, practice, or environmental barriers

Question 36

What is an underserved population?

Answer 36

A group of people that is not receiving adequate services

Question 37

Why are some population underserved?

Answer 37

Not enough outreach or support services

Attitudes of service delivery personnel

Lack of reimbursement policies for AR

Communication or environmental barriers

Question 38

What is a randomly controlled trial?

Answer 38

One where some participants are randomly selected to participate in a test treatment but the others are not

Question 39

What is the dependent variable?

Answer 39

What is being measure

Question 40

What is the independent variable?

Answer 40

What is being altered