SLP in Audiology Services Flashcards

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interprofessional collaboration

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collective action toward a common goal

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benefits of interprofessional collaboration

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  • comprehensive service provision
  • better outcomes for the patient
  • higher satisfaction
  • time
  • cost efficiency
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what other professions might SLPs collaborate with?

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  • OT
  • PT
  • families
  • physicians
  • teachers
  • behavioral specialists
  • audiologist
  • neurologist
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ASHA’s SLP scope of practice for hearing

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  • hearing screenings
  • interpret audiometric data
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ASHA’s 8 service delivery domains

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  1. collaboration
  2. counseling
  3. prevention and wellness
  4. screening
  5. assessment
  6. treatment
  7. modalities, technology, and instrumentation
  8. population and systems
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  1. collaboration
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  • team approach to patient care
  • patient may have hearing loss
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  1. counseling
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  • emotional support
  • discussing hearing loss remediation and hearing assistance technology
  • education/programmatic decision making
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  1. prevention and wellness
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  • prevention of hearing loss
  • promotion of services available (both to the person with hearing loss and community)
  • educating the public (at schools, workplace, and community)
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  1. screening
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  • planning and conducting hearing screening programs (dependent upon where you are working)
  • selecting appropriate screening instruments
  • developing screening procedures
  • analyzing results and making referrals
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  1. assessment
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  • identifying risk factors
  • interpreting audiometric results
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11
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  1. treatment
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collaboration with audiologist on best practice

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  1. modalities, technology, and instrumentation
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  • familiarity of hearing screening instruments, hearing aids, ALDs
  • maintenance of hearing aids, ALDs, auditory training systems
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  1. population and systems
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  • intervention strategies and therapeutic goals align with the whole patient
  • type of support needed in the classroom
  • early intervention for communication choices (do not state your opinion, tell them pros and cons)
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audiologists scope of practice, synopsis

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  • prevention
  • identification
  • assessment
  • rehabilitation
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audiologist: prevention

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  • noise measurements
  • promotion of hearing wellness
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audiologist: identification

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  • newborn hearing screenings
  • screening for speech, language, and cognitive disorders
  • those at risk for hearing loss
  • collaborate with SLPs
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audiologist: assessment

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  • behavioral, electroacoustical, electrophysiological
  • auditory and balance
  • measurement of evoked auditory potentials, electromyography
  • neurophysiological intraoperative monitoring
  • auditory processing disorders
  • otoscopy and cerumen management
18
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audiologists: rehabilitation

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  • hearing assistive technology
  • cochlear implant candidates
  • consultation and provision of vestibular and balance rehab
  • management of tinnitus
  • participant in IEPs
19
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audiometric equipment, the SLP role

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must follow OSHA regulations

20
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maintenance of equipment might not be up to the SLP…but

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be aware of the maintenance requirements:
- annual calibration
- daily listening checks

21
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deaf

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individuals whose hearing loss is so severe they cannot use their sense of audition as a primary means to communicate

22
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Deaf

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using a capital ‘D’ refers to adults and children who share the use of ASL and Deaf culture (common values, traditions, etc.)

23
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hard of hearing

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person with a hearing loss who can derive benefit from hearing aids and uses aural/oral speech for communication

24
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best practice

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  • clinical process that is judged to be scientifically sound and consistently yields results of better quality than other procedures
  • ever-changing