Overview
The difference between education of an SLP versus AUD
What is 2 semesters?
The birthplace of audiology
What is Military Hospitals?
The four main divisions of the auditory system (in terms of anatomy and physiology)
What is the Outer ear, Middle ear, Inner ear, and Central auditory nervous system?
The setting in which most audiologists work
What is medical?
The test that is performed by placing a tuning fork on the mastoid bone, then near the pinna
Percentage of US population that has some hearing loss
What is 15%?
The "parents" of audiology
What is Otology and Speech-language pathology?
The two main divisions of the auditory system (in terms of measuring hearing)
What is Conductive mechanism (outer ear and middle ear) and Sensorineural mechanism (inner ear and central auditory nervous system)?
The audiology specialty that focuses on minimizing impact of hearing loss at school
What is Educational Audiology?
This test takes advantage of the occlusion effect
What is The Bing test?
The American Academy of Audiology's definition of audiologists
What is "autonomous professionals who identify, assess, and manage disorders of the auditory balance, and related neural systems"?
The father of audiology
Who is Dr. Raymond Carhart?
The difference in decibel level for the air bone gap to be significant
The audiology specialty with the goal to minimize impact of hearing loss on speech and language development
What is Pediatric Audiology?
Hearing loss of a Weber test resulting in lateralized sound to the right ear
What is Conductive hearing loss in the right ear or Sensorineural hearing loss in the left ear?
Impacts of hearing loss on individuals of all ages
What is Makes communication difficult, which impacts relationships with family and friends?
Doctors specializing in disorders of the ear
Who are otologists?
Hearing loss of someone that has a middle ear infection and damaged outer hair cells
What is Mixed hearing loss?
The main focus of industrial audiology
What is Preventing hearing loss (hearing conservation) in the workplace?
Drawbacks of using tuning forks to test for hearing loss (name 2)
What is Assesses sensitivity at one frequency, Level of hearing loss is unknown and extremely variable, We don't know which ear was responsible for hearing the tone with bone conduction presentation, Test environment may be noisy?
Three professional organizations for audiologists
What are ASHA (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association), AAA (American Academy of Audiology), and ABA (American Board of Audiology)?
The first university to establish an audiology program
What is Northwestern?
The three parts of the semicircular canals
What is the Superior/anterior semicircular canal, Posterior/inferior semicircular canal, and Lateral/horizontal semicircular canal?
What are recreational audiology, animal audiology, and tele-audiology?
Result/suggested hearing loss of a Weber test lateralized to the right and a Rinne test positive bilaterally
What is Left-sided sensorineural loss?