"The prevention of and assessment of auditory, vestibular, and related impairments as well as the habilitation/rehabilitation and maintenance of persons with these impairments"
What is Audiology?
100
List the three types of hearing loss.
What are conductive, sensorineural, and mixed hearing loss?
100
This famous person was the 42nd president of the United States of America and suffers from high frequency hearing loss due to listening to loud rock music while younger and hunting without protective ear gear.
Who is Bill Clinton?
200
Free Space!
What is 200 points?
200
These tiny hair-like cells lay on basilar membrane.
What is cilia?
200
Hearing aids programmed by. . .
Who is an Audiologist?
200
Acquired hearing loss may be due to ________.
What are bacterial and/or viral infections?
200
This famous person was born typically developing but around 19 months old she came down with an unknown illness that left her both deaf and blind. She didn’t let her exceptionality stop her because she was well known for being the first person of her kind to graduate college, speaking out for children and adults with exceptionalities, as well as, a world renowned author and speaker.
Who is Helen Keller?
300
When a person's hearing loss reaches 90 dB or greater, they are considered ______.
What is deaf?
300
Name the bowl-like depression of the pinna.
What is the concha?
300
Audiologists can work in __________.
What is non-residential health care settings, private practices, community speech and hearing centers, schools, universities, industries, etc.?
300
Inflammation of the mucous membrane lining of the middle ear?
What is otitis media?
300
This famous person is a musician from the 18th century who started to lose his hearing around the age of 26. The exact cause of his hearing loss is unknown but he did suffer from tinnitus, a ringing in his ears before losing his hearing. His hearing loss and eventually deafness did not stop him because he went on to compose several pieces of music that are still famous today.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
400
"A group who views deafness with a sense of pride that serves to unite its members and positively shape their sense of self-identity"
What is Deaf community?
400
The most visible part of the auditory system (made of cartilage and covered in skin).
What is the pinna?
400
These devices help amplify hearing, but do not return hearing to normal.
What are hearing aids?
400
One of the leading causes of acquired sensorineural hearing loss in young and middle aged adults.
What is noise-induced hearing loss?
400
Free Space!
What is 400 points?
500
Approximately _____ percentage of the population in the United States have some degree of hearing loss in each ear.
What is 12%?
500
Another name for ear wax.
What is cerumen?
500
Highest level of education for an Audiologist.
What is AuD, PhD, or EdD?
500
This disease is believed to be caused by pressure resulting from the build up of endolymph fluid within the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear.
What is Meniere's Disease?
500
This famous person now suffers from tinnitus-which is a kind of ringing in the ears- from a prop explosion on the set of Star Trek in 1966 as Captain Kirk.