Chapter 1

Question 1

Who came up with the first manual sign language?

Answer 1

Charles Michael de l’Epee

Question 2

_ and _ travel from France to Hartford Connecticut to establish the first American deaf school in 1817

Answer 2

Gallaudet and Clerc

Question 3

What is the difference between rehabilitation and habilitation?

Answer 3

Rehabilitation is to restore something that has been lost - rehabilitate - whereas habilitation is to habilitate something that wasn’t there in the first place

Question 4

Who was the father of audiology and when did it start?

Answer 4

Raymond Carhart came up with audiology for military men after world war 2

Question 5

What is the most common sensory impairment in humans?

Answer 5

Deafness

Question 6

What is an auditory disorder that is outside of the genes?

Answer 6

Exogenous

Question 7

What is an auditory disorder that is inside of the genes?

Answer 7

Endogenous

Question 8

What are three general ways deafness can occur?

Answer 8

Congenitally, hereditarily, or can be aquired

Question 9

1/2 of all auditory disorders are due to:

Answer 9

Hereditary factors

Question 10

If one parent exhibits the inherited trait and the child has a 50% chance of getting it, this is called:

Answer 10

Dominant inheritance

Question 11

When a child inherits two abnormal genes from two parents, this is called:

Answer 11

Recessive inheritance

Question 12

Defective traits located on the X chromosome causing deafness is called:

Answer 12

X-lining inheritance

Question 13

Which inheritance is most common/least common?

Answer 13

Recessive 70-80%
Dominant 15-20%
X-linked or mitochondrial 2-3%

Question 14

The most common genetic form of congenital hearing loss due to this gene is called:

Answer 14

Connexin 26

Question 15

A majority of cases of hearing loss are:

Answer 15

Nonsyndromic

Question 16

What is gene mapping?

Answer 16

Identifying the location of a gene

Question 17

What is localization?

Answer 17

Isolating the defective gene

Question 18

Audiograms measure what kinds of thresholds?

Answer 18

Pure tone and bond conduction thresholds

Question 19

Audiograms measure type of hearing loss. What are the types?

Answer 19

Conductive - outer & middle ear
Sensorineural - inner ear
Mixed - combo of conductive and sensorineural

Question 20

Diseases during pregnancy, heredity, childhood disease, viral infections, prolonged high fevers, physical damage to the head or ear, and exposure to excessive/intense noise are all potential causes of:

Answer 20

Sensorineural hearing loss

Question 21

Infections in the middle ear, ruptured ear drum, interference, deformity in the ear structures, damage caused by a foreign object, missing or occluded ear canal, and allergies are all potential causes of:

Answer 21

Conductive hearing loss

Question 22

Audiograms also measure degree of hearing loss. What are these degrees?

Answer 22

Normal
Mild loss
Moderate loss
Moderately severe
Severe
Profound