WorksheetsChapter 12 Study Group
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
A 51 year old woman comes to an audiologist and states that she feels like she is losing her hearing in her left ear. The woman says that she generally feels healthy but has noticed that she now uses her right ear exclusively when talking on the telephone. She states, "sometimes the left side of my face tingles. It doesn't bother me much, but I do notice it sometimes." She also reports that she feels slight dizziness and has noticed some mild balance problems. For example, when she is on a escalator, she has to "hang on more". She says that "sometimes my left ear rings". Her preliminary audiological results sho that she has normal ability to detect pure tones and that she has normal speech recognition in a quiet room. The most probable diagnosis of this woman's problem is:
Central auditory processing disorder
Meniere's disease
Acoustic neuroma
Otosclerosis
A person with otosclerosis often has a audiogram reflecting Carhhart's notch. Carhart's notch is
A specific type of sensorineural hearing loss characterized by a "dip" at 1000 Hz
A specific loss at 4000 Hz, as indicated by both air- and bone-conduction testing
Specific losses at both 2000 and 4000 Hz, as indicated by bone-conduction testing
A specific loss at 2000 Hz, as indicated by bone-conduction testing
A mother brings her 3 year old, Sasha, for a hearing screening. She shares that Sasha has had many middle ear infections, which have been treated with antibiotics. These middle ear infections started when Sasha was 9 months old. The mother has been told by a friend that "middle ear tubes" might be a good option for Sasha, but the mother states that she is afraid of the surgery that this would entail. After all, Sasha is only 3 years old, and her mother does not want her to be traumatized. The mother tells you, "even though Sasha ignores me sometimes, I think everything will be okay. I just wanted her to get checked out to be sure." The audiologist assesses Sasha, with the resulting audiogram shown below. What type of hearing loss does Sasha have, based on this audiogram?
Mixed loss
Retrocochlear loss
Sensorineural loss
Conductive loss
Key parts of the auditory nervous system include cranial nerve VIII, which has two branches: the ______ branch and the _____ branch, which carries the electrical sound impulses from the cochlea to the brain.
Retrocochlear, vestibular
Vestibular, auditory-acoustic
Auditory-acoustic, retrocochlear
Cochlear, auditory-acoustic
Sensorineural hearing loss can be caused by many things. ___________, a hearing impairment in older people, results in sloping, high frequency loss. ________, which also causes sensorineural hearing loss, is accompanied by vertigo and tinnitus.
Presbycusis, Meniere's disease
Meniere's disease, Otosclerosis
Presbycusis, Otosclerosis
Central auditory processing disorder, Presbycusis
A patient has her hearing tested, and the resulting audiogram has the configuration pictured.
You can assume that this patient has:
Mixed hearing loss
Conductive hearing loss
Sensorineural hearing loss
Noise-induced hearing loss
A 65 year old man with presbycusis comes to you complaining that when he is in social situations such as parties, people don't speak loudly enough. He says that noise creates a problems for him in hearing what people are saying. This client has difficulty with:
Signal-to-noise ratio
Auditory discrimination
Figure-ground discrimination
Pragmatic skills
Which one of the following is a homophenous pair?
sheep-beep
man-ban
pan-fan
honey-money
The muscle that exerts the pull that allows the Eustachian tube to open during yawning and swallowing is the:
Tensor palatini
Levator palatini
Tensor tympani
Stapedius muscle
An infant with cleft palate will most likely have hearing problems because of:
Aural atresia
An incompletely formed cochlea
Eustachian tube dysfunction
Malformed ossicles
Jasmine is in fourth grade girl who is struggling academically. She has difficulty paying attention in class and her grades are low. She has been tested by several specialists, and there is no evidence of a learning disability or clinically significant attention issue. She has passed routine school hearing screenings every year; these screenings have been conducted at 25 dB bilaterally. However, teachers over the years keep referring her because they think that she is not hearing as well as she should. What course of action would you take?
Don't do anything; she has passed hearing screenings and probably just needs to exhibit greater self-discipline in class.
Talker to her parents and suggest ways that they can help her improve her behavior
Talk to her teacher and suggest discipline strategies for the classroom to help Jasmine behave and focus better
Refer Jasmine and her parents to an audiologist for a comprehensive hearing test
Speech reception thresholds (SRTs) are:
Determined by the patient's response to a list of monosyllabic words presented at a low level of hearing
Determined by looking at the patient's pure-tone test results at the frequencies most important to speech
The lowest or softest level of hearing at which a person can understand 100% of the words presented
The lowest or softest level of hearing at which a person can understand 50% of the words presented.
Popular forms of amplification today include hearing aids and cochlear implants. Which one of the following is NOT true about these devices?
Hearing aids deliver amplified sound to the ear canal, which cochlear implants deliver electrical impulses (converted from sound) directly to the middle ear
Digital hearing aids provide a better signal-to-noise ratio than analog
Cochlear implants can help prelingual children to make substantial progress through maximizing their potential
A consideration in fitting clients with hearing aids is whether the clients are motivated to use and properly care for the aids
A father comes to you regarding his daughter, who is 8 months old. When the baby was 4 months old, he and his wife noticed that she did not respond to noise. Even when the dog barked loudly or the TV was turned up, the baby did not respond. They took her to an audiology and found that the baby had a bilateral hearing loss and that she was profoundly deaf. The father states that he wishes for his daughter, as she grows older, to "fit in with children with normal hearing". He is interested in any possible amplification and says that he wants his daughter to lead a life that is "as normal as possible". Which training approach would best fit this father's wishes?
Total communication
Aural/oral method
Manual approach
Rochester method
Spondee words are:
Polysyllabic words with at least two voiceless sounds
Two-syllabic words with primary stress on the first syllable
Two-syllabic words with equal stress on each syllable
One-syllable words that are phonetically balanced
