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Audiology 10****
Final Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is critical for speech and language development in children? | hearing |
| What hearing milestone happens between 0-28 days? | startle response, attends to music and voice |
| What hearing milestone happens between 1-4 months? | looks for sound source; imitates vowels |
| What hearing milestone happens between 4-8 months? | responds to verbal commands |
| What hearing milestone happens between 8-12 months? | sound localization |
| What hearing milestone happens around 1 year? | answers to name call, attends to books |
| What hearing milestone happens around 2 years? | listens on telephone; attends to travel activity/communication |
| What hearing milestone happens around 3 years? | attends to verbal warnings for safety |
| What hearing milestone happens around 4 years | attends to movies |
| What hearing milestone happens around 5 years? | attends to speaker in group |
| What is a child's speech perception from birth to one year old? | distinguish between mother and strangers voice and preference for their native language |
| What is a child's response to sound below 5 months old | eyes widening, smiling, crying, etc (harder to notice) |
| What is a child's response to sound <5 months to 1 year? | head turns in direction of sound (easier to notice) |
| What is the expressive language of 1-3 year olds? | grows from 1 word to 2 word utterances and short sentences |
| What language development happens from 3 to 5 years old? | multiword utterances; understanding nonliteral language (humor) |
| Why is early identification of hearing loss so important? | advantageous for communication and language outcomes, important for social emotional development |
| What is the goal of early hearing screenings? | improve the average age of hearing loss identification |
| What methods are used for infant hearing screenings? | ABR and OAE |
| What testing methods are used in 8 month olds to 4 year olds? | OAEs and immitance testing |
| What are immitance testings? | tympanometry and acoustic reflex thresholds |
| What do observed behaviors during sound field testing do? | gives information regarding hearing sensitivity and localization ability |
| What is sound field testing? | sound is played by speakers in a room |
| What does visual reinforcement audiometry rely on? | a child's ability to localize by turning towards the source of a sound |
| What is visual reinforcement audiometry (VRA) | watch for a child's response to sound coming from sound field speakers or earphones |
| What is the stimuli for visual reinforcement audiometry? | narrowband noise or speech |
| What is conditioned play audiometry? | 3-5 years old, condition a child to complete a task after hearing a sound |
| What screening tests are used on children and adults? | otoscopy, pure tone testing, speech stimuli, immitance measures |
| What is the environment for a screening look like? | conducted in quiet room |
| What equipment is used for screening? | portable audiometer and supra-aural headphones, may be able to do bone conduction and record speech |
| Who can do a screening? | Audiologists, SLPs, support personnel under audiologists supervision |
| What frequencies are presented for the ASHA hearing screening? | 1000, 2000, 4000 Hz at 20 dB HL |