Profession of Audiology/ Sound & Measuremt.
Outer Ear &
Middle Ear
Middle Ear
Inner Ear
Hearing Loss &
Testing
Testing
Pediatrics
Patient
Management
Management
Auditory Nerve &
Central Aud. Pathways
Central Aud. Pathways
Amplification
100
The entry level degree for the profession of audiology.
What is Doctor of Audiology (Au.D.)?
100
The main function of the auricle (pinna).
What is catch/funnel sound down the external auditory canal?
100
Hearing loss arising from cochlear/hair cell damage.
What is sensorineural hearing loss?
100
The most important tool in audiological assessment.
What is a case history?
100
The goal of newborn hearing screening programs is to provide intervention programs by this age.
What is 6 months of age?
100
A very important tool in an audiologist's role in hearing loss management.
What is patient history/case history?
100
Sound is meaningful only if it is perceived in the brain. True or False?
What is true?
100
An electronic device designed to collect and amplify sound for the purpose of helping people with hearing loss communicate mor effectively.
What is a hearing aid?
200
The credential required for the practice of audiology in the United Stated.
What is state lincensure?
200
This is the light reflex seen when inspecting the tympanic membrane.
What is the cone of light?
200
Drugs taken by a patient that produce hearing loss (typically high frequency SNHL).
What are ototoxic drugs?
200
The three main types of hearing loss.
What are conductive, sensorineural, and mixed.
200
Neonatal hearing screening uses these types of screening methods that give a "pass" or "fail" response.
What is Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) and Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR)?
200
The acronym for report writing format.
What is SOAP (subjective, objective, assessment, plan)?
200
The more common term for cerebrovascular accident (CVA)?
What is stroke?
200
The type of hearing aid technology used today that converts sound waves into binary digits, allowing for mor precise programming and producing better sound quality.
What is digital technology?
300
The form by which sound travels through the air.
What is a wave?
300
The three middle ear ossicles.
What are the malleus, incus, and stapes?
300
Congenital disorders that occur prior to birth.
What are prenatal disorders?
300
What is sensorineural hearing loss?
300
Prior to newborn hearing screening programs, a child born with hearing loss was typically not identified by this age.
What is 3 years of age (or older)?
300
Provides standards for the exchange, privacy, and security of private health insurance.
What is HIPPA legislation?
300
Damage to Heschl's gyrus (the area of auditory reception) and the adjacent language comprehension area of the cortex can cause this type of aphasia.
What is Wernicke's aphasia?
300
A whistling sound that occurs when a hearing aid is set too high or fits too loose.
What is feedback?
400
The psychological correlate of frequency.
What is pitch?
400
The general term for infection of the middle ear.
What is otitis media?
400
Hearing loss caused by the aging process.
What is presbycusis?
400
What is a mixed hearing loss?
400
A procedure for evaluating newborns in the hospital minutes after birth.
What is Apgar testing?
400
Combining clinical expertise, research, and patient values, this uses the best and current evidence available for making patient care decisions.
What is Evidence-Based Practice?
400
Oxygen deprivation to the brain.
What is anoxia?
400
A means of wireless connectivity to cell phones, assistive listening devices, and computer programming hearing aid software.
What is Bluetooth?
500
The psychological correlate of intensity.
What is loudness?
500
Disorders of the outer and middle ear can result in this type of hearing loss.
What is conductive hearing loss?
500
The three fluid-containing channels of the inner ear.
What are the semicircular canals?
500
The conductive component of a hearing loss can be determined by this.
What is an air-bone gap?
500
Present otoacoustic emissions ("pass") on a newborn hearing indicate this level of hearing sensitivity.
What is hearing sensitivity of 30 dB or better?
500
Hearing management based on audiologic assessment, patient self-assessment, amplification, auditory training and counseling.
What is aural rehabilitation (AR)?
500
The usual term for tumors of the VIIIth cranial nerve.
What is acoustic neuroma?
500
Cochlear implants are usually considered for patients with this degree of hearing loss.
What is a severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss?
600
Audiology developed out of these two professions.
What are otology and speech-language pathology?
600
A thickening of the tympanic membrane.
What is tympanosclerosis?
600
Disturbance of the vestibular system often results in this, which gives the sensation of true turning or imbalance.
What is vertigo?
600
Spondees, or words used in testing for speech thresholds, have this many syllables with equal stress.
What is two?
600
Six sounds that are representative of the speech energy contained within all of the speech sounds of English.
What is the Ling Six Sound Test?
600
A mode of communication that advocates using all methods of communication that will help the child be most successful (sign language, spoken language, and visuals).
What is Total Communication?
600
Two common symptoms of auditory nerve disorders.
What are tinnitus and high frequency hearing loss?
(also decreased speech discrimination)
600
In order for a cochlear implant to be successful, this cranial nerve must be undamaged.
What is the 8th/auditory cranial nerve?
700
The number of cycles completed by a sine wave in one second will determine this.
What is frequency?
700
The middle ear ossicle that rocks in the oval window to transmit mechanical vibrations to the fluids of the cochlea.
What is the stapes?
700
A disorder characterized by aural fullness, vertigo, tinnitus, vomiting, and most often unilateral fluctuating hearing loss.
What is Meniere's disease?
700
The air conduction pathway includes these anatomical structures.
What are the outer, middle, and inner ear?
(and acoustic nerve)
700
Behavioral assessments with two- to five-year-old children often begin with this type of objective testing.
What is speech audiometry?
700
When hearing loss occurs before the normal development of language.
What is Prelingual onset of hearing loss?
700
Auditory nerve fiber organization where high frequencies are received at the basal end of the cochlea and low frequencies at the apical end.
What is tonotopical organization?
700
Possibly the greatest indicator of an adult patient's success with amplification.
What is patient motivation (to use hearing aids or cochlear implants)?
800
When a sound source produces energy at more than one frequency, the result is this type of sound.
What is a complex sound?
800
A congenitally deformed and very small pinna.
What is microtia?
800
The two fluids found in the inner ear, one of which is higher in sodium and the other higher in potassium.
What are perilymph and endolymph?
800
Picture identification for speech-recognition tests are usually used with this population.
What are children?
800
Children who fake or exaggerate a hearing loss.
What is non-organic hearing loss?
800
Mandates that all children must be educated in the least restrictive environment.
What is Public Law 94-142?
800
Contains the auditory-vestibular (8th) nerve, the facial (7th) nerve, and the internal auditory artery.
What is the Internal Auditory Canal (IAC)?
800
Assistive listening devices are also known as this.
What is Hearing Assistive Technology (HAT)?