AURAL REHAB Flashcards
Mr. Jones did not attend his granddaughter’s school play because he didn’t think he could understand what he kids were saying. not attending the school play is an example of an:
participation restriction
individuals who have hearing loss are underserved, in part because of:
lack of audiologists
lack of reimbursement
geographical location
Joyce no longer attends her sunday school class at church because she is having difficulty following along with the conversation due to her hearing loss. what is joyce not attending her class an example of?
participation restriction
what indicates the type of benefits experienced by either an individual or a group of individuals to a treatment or series of treatments and/or indicates a response?
outcome measure
provide clients with tools to address activity limitations and participation restrictions
goal selection in aural rehab
difficulty comprehending speech in the presence of background noise is an example of:
activity limitation
in the WHO nomenclature, a disability is:
functional consequence of an impairment
aspects of activity limitations (according to WHO) may be influenced by:
an active lifestyle
person’s willingness to be assertive regarding needs
communication partners
T/F: when developing an AR plan, the SLP and audiologist provide the most important input regarding that plan
FALSE
T/F: auditory training can change a person’s hearing sensitivity
FALSE
analytic training focuses on:
recognition of individual speech sounds
phoneme based training is designed to hone:
bottom-up processing
according to transfer appropriate processing theory (TAP) in regard to auditory training:
gains are greatest for the talker on which the patient trained
T/F: segmental information of speech provides all the information needed for communication
FALSE
in adults, what cognitive skills might be trained during auditory training?
auditory attention
processing speed
a clinician targeted specific sound differences in word pairs during an auditory training activity. what type of training was being utilized?
analytic training
acoustically, how are vowels primarily identified?
1st and 2nd formants
as part of an AR program, a new adult CI user listens to a set of word pairs presented by the clinician. the adults responds “same” or “different” based on the pair of words presented. what auditory skill is the AR clinician targeting?
discrimination
the advantage afforded by adding hearing to vision is known as:
speechreading enhancement
typically, a word that has a high frequency of usage is easier to identify on the face than a word that has low frequency of usage. an exception to this rule of thumb is:
the word with low frequency of usage has far fewer lexical neighbors than the word with a high frequency of usage
what term refers to rapid and intermittent eye movement such that the eyes fixate on one point and then another point in the visual field?
saccade
when speechreading, individuals need to focus more on the ____ when seeking prosodic information about questions vs statements.
upper face
Mr. Simmons is taking a lipreading test. which word is he most likely to identify correctly?
A. thumb
B. Bathtub
C. hornet
d. elephant
C. hornet
if a person is a candidate for intensive speechreading training, this person is most likely to be:
a new recipient of a cochlear implant
what kind of information should a speech reader provide to the talker to explain how to communicate with him?
talker should talk slightly louder
talker should face him while talking
which two sounds are an example of viseme?
A. b, p
B. f, t
C. m, n
D. l, w
A. p, b
what are groups of speech sounds that appear identical on the lips (e.g., p, m, b)?
visemes
what is mean length turn ratio?
ratio of MLTs of two talker who are engaged in conversation
what can cause a person’s difficulty with conversational fluency to fluctuate?
communication partners
topic of discussion
physiological state
the term generous listening is used to describe:
instances in which a clinician listens while providing positive regard, attention, and acknowledgements
if a clinician wanted to informally assess someone’s conversational fluency, the most direct way might be to:
conduct an interview using open-ended questions