The Profession
In 2007, this became the required entry-level degree for new audiologists.
What is the Au.D
The unit used to describe frequency
What is Hertz (Hz)?
This structure connects the middle ear to the nasopharynx.
What is the Eustachian tube?
The meaning behind the audiogram symbol "O"
What is right ear air conduction?
When performing otoscopy, clinicians look for this, which is not a true anatomical structure.
What is the cone of light.
PE Tubes are inserted into this structure to treat chronic middle ear infections.
What is the tympanic membrane?
This historical event led to the creation of modern audiology.
What is WWII?
As stiffness increases, this happens to the pitch of an object
What is increases?
The three ossicles.
What are malleus, incus and stapes?
This term refers to the softest sound a patient can hear at least 50% of the time.
What is threshold?
Newborn hearing screenings in the NICU use this test.
What is the AABR?
Overgrowth of bone around the stapes footplate causes this disorder, often worsening during pregnancy.
What is otosclerosis?
This term refers to the amount of amplification hearing aids add to an input signal.
What is gain?
This is the accrediting body for Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, which sets guidelines such as scope of practice, ethical considerations, provides continuing education, and hosts conferences.
What is ASHA?
Low frequency sounds have ______ wavelengths than high frequency sounds.
The number of turns made by a typically developed human cochlea
What is 2.5?
The frequency range that we typically test during air conduction audiometry.
250Hz-8000Hz
The Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) guideline says that all children should receive hearing related intervention by this age.
What is 6 months?
Most genetic hearing loss is inherited in this pattern.
What is autosomal recessive.
This verification procedure measures what the hearing aid actually does in the patient's ear and is necessary for appropriate hearing aid programming
What are real ear measures?
This national exam must be passed by Au.D students, typically in the externship year.
What is the Praxis?
This type of sound contains only one frequency of vibration and is used often in audiologic testing.
What is a pure tone?
This is the membrane in the cochlea that is tonotopically organized and is responsible for the travelling wave.
Type of hearing loss that shows an air-bone gap ≥15 dB
What is conductive hearing loss?
The frequencies and decibel level used for hearing screening of adult patients.
What is: 1000 2000 and 4000Hz at 25dB
This in utero infection is the leading non-genetic cause of childhood sensorineural hearing loss.
What is CMV?
This amplification system routes sound from an unaidable ear to a hearing ear.
What is $92,120
The frequency range (at birth) of typical human hearing
What is 20Hz-20,000Hz?
The center chamber of the 3 chambers that make up the cochlea. Hint: houses the Organ of Corti.
What is the scala media
The configuration of hearing loss where thresholds are better in the low and high frequencies, and poorest in the middle frequencies. (often genetic)
What is cookie bite?
A very large ear canal volume with a Type B (flat) tympanogram suggests this pathology:
What is eardrum perforation (or open PE tube)
This retrocochlear pathology typically causes unilateral high frequency sensorineural hearing loss, reduced word recognition, unilateral tinnitus and sometimes dizziness.
What is acoustic neuroma
This hearing device is surgically implanted in the mastoid bone and uses bone conduction to bypass the middle ear.
What is a BAHA?