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USU Aural Rehab (Module 1) 5330 Questions with Complete Solutions, Exams of Nursing

A series of questions and answers related to aural rehabilitation, covering topics such as hearing loss definitions, types, causes, and consequences. It also explores the history of audiology and the role of aural rehabilitation in addressing hearing loss. Useful for students studying audiology or related fields, providing a basic understanding of key concepts and terminology.

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USU Aural Rehab (module 1) 5330 Questions With
Complete Solutions
• medico-legal - Correct Answers The average threshold at
500, 1000, and 2000 Hz is over 90 dB HL
AR defined Correct Answers • Simply defined, aural rehab is
any effort aimed at minimizing and/or
alleviating the effects of hearing loss on communication
Central Hearing Los Correct Answers hearing loss that occurs
from the VIII cranial
nerve and up to the cortex
Consequences of a Hearing Loss Correct Answers • everyday
communication can be difficult and sometimes
impossible without a great deal of effort
• difficulties at home, work, and in the community
• delays in speech, language, education, and social
development
• lost wages and productivity
cultural: Correct Answers written with a capital "D", people
who communicateusing ASL and consider themselves as a
minority group and not as handicapped individuals
Degree of hearing loss Correct Answers Refers to the severity
of hearing loss, which can range from mild, moderate, severe to
profound levels
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USU Aural Rehab (module 1) 5330 Questions With Complete Solutions

  • medico-legal - Correct Answers The average threshold at 500, 1000, and 2000 Hz is over 90 dB HL AR defined Correct Answers • Simply defined, aural rehab is any effort aimed at minimizing and/or alleviating the effects of hearing loss on communication Central Hearing Los Correct Answers hearing loss that occurs from the VIII cranial nerve and up to the cortex Consequences of a Hearing Loss Correct Answers • everyday communication can be difficult and sometimes impossible without a great deal of effort
  • difficulties at home, work, and in the community
  • delays in speech, language, education, and social development
  • lost wages and productivity cultural: Correct Answers written with a capital "D", people who communicateusing ASL and consider themselves as a minority group and not as handicapped individuals Degree of hearing loss Correct Answers Refers to the severity of hearing loss, which can range from mild, moderate, severe to profound levels

Difference between rehabilitation and habilitation? Correct Answers "habilitative services help a person keep, learn, or improve skills and functioning for daily living." Rehabilitative services, on the other hand, "help a person keep, get back, or improve skills and functioning for daily living that have been lost or impaired because a person was sick, hurt educational Correct Answers if the primary mode of learning is not auditory, he/she is considered deaf Functional Hearing loss Correct Answers hearing loss where the organic etiology is unknown Global Hearing Loss Stats Correct Answers Most prevalent chronic disability

  • 80% live in area where they have no access to hearing health professionals
  • 466 million people live with disabling hearing loss
  • Of these, 34 million are children
  • 1.1 billion young people are at risk of hearing loss due to exposure to noise in recreational settings and through personal audio devices Guidelines for audiogram review? Correct Answers Look at each ear separately
  • Describe
  • degree of hearing loss
  • nature of hearing loss
  • audiometric configuration

Percentage of Hearing Loss Correct Answers This term is reserved for medico-legal use.

  • Percentage of hearing loss is calculated using a formula which varies from state to state. Audiologists do not like to use percentage of loss to characterize hearing loss because it misleads people to think that any two people with similar hearing loss will have the same amount of difficulty - not true! Peripheral hearing loss Correct Answers hearing loss that occurs up to the level of the cochlea social deaf definition: Correct Answers • social - everyday auditory/verbal communication is impossible or nearly so Subcategories Correct Answers • 80% of these individuals have permanent impairment
  • One of every 22 infants born in this country has some kind of hearing problem
  • 1/1000 children born have severe to profound hearing loss
  • 1/3 of the population over 65 years old has decreased hearing What are influences in the USA? Correct Answers Family Income: more people with severe HL earn less than 15,000/year than people with no hearing loss
  • Employment Status: more unemployed, less promotions, less satisfaction with employment
  • Education: as degree of hearing loss increases, level of education decreases
  • Marital status and living arrangements: more divorced and live alone
  • Births: less births (probably related to above stat) What did WW2 do in reference to AR? Correct Answers World War II brought about the need and development of the profession of audiology which was essentially a profession for people wanting to practice aural rehabilitation What does AR include? Correct Answers • providing technical support
  • working with the individual to maximize the use of their residual hearing
  • counseling to help the person cope with the effects of having a hearing loss What is AC Correct Answers air conduction What is BC Correct Answers bone conduction What is conductive HL? Correct Answers Conductive= The cochlea hears fine (resulting in normal bone conduction [BC] hearing) but there is a loss that is due to a problem of the outer or middle ear resulting in reduced air conduction [AC] thresholds What is mixed HL? Correct Answers Mixed= BC shows loss and AC also shows loss even greater than BC - there is a problem in both the cochlea and in the

Who is Periere? Correct Answers Periere introduced education of the deaf to France in the 1700's Who is Ponce de Leon? Correct Answers Ponce de Leon of Spain is one of the first identified teachers of the deaf Who provides AR? Correct Answers • Not just the audiologist

  • Audiologists
  • Speech Language Pathologists
  • Teachers for the hard-of-hearing or deaf
  • sometimes even the resource teacher or school support
  • In many cases of aural rehab, the SLP fills the auditory training and speechreading training