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100
This device is effective for an infant with a moderate to severe genetic hearing loss.
What is a hearing aid?
100
Percentage of U.S. adults that could benefit from a hearing aid who actually use one
What is 20%?
100
This takes in the acoustic information in a hearing aid, cochlear implant, BAHA, or FM
What is the microphone?
100
The power source that should be checked first when troubleshooting technology.
What is/are the battery/batteries?
100
The attenuator used in the audio booth for testing pure tones with hearing technologies in place.
What is Soundfield (speaker system)?
200
This device is effective for two year old with a profound sensorineural loss due to CMV.
What is a cochlear implant?
200
According to EHDI guidelines amplification should be in place for the identified child by this age.
What is six months?
200
This sends the signal, either subcutaneously in a cochlear implant, or through radio/infared in an FM
What is a transmitter?
200
The low-tech check performed routinely across technologies to confirm function on a daily basis
What is Ling Sound Check?
200
The level at which a speech recognition score will be obtained with hearing technology in place to represent the level of conversational speech.
What is 55 decibels?
300
This device is effective for an eight-year-old child with a bilateral conductive hearing loss due to a craniofacial anomaly.
What is a Bone Anchored Hearing Aid?
300
This configuration provides the ability to localize and improves hearing in noise while reducing listener fatigue.
What is bilateral fitting?
300
Present only in a bone anchored/bone conduction unit, this transmits tactile information through the skull
What is the vibrator/oscillator/tactile transducer?
300
The process of periodically having a cochlear implant checked and programmed, assigning electrical output levels to each electrode.
What is mapping?
300
Type of testing performed without the user to check and measure the technical output of the hearing aid.
What is an electroacoustical check?
400
This device is effective for a hard of hearing third grader in a noisy classroom setting.
What is an FM system?
400
This configuration utilizes two different types of input from two types of technologies.
What is bimodal fitting?
400
Inserted into the cochlea, this provides electrical stimulation to the damaged hair cells for a cochlear implant
What is the electrode array?
400
Audiologist’s advice about when the hearing aid should be worn by the child user.
What is "all waking hours"?
400
The testing of the hearing aid that includes the acoustic features of the ear canal, hearing levels, and hearing aid output.
What is Real Ear testing?
500
This “invisible” device would be effective for an adult with moderate hearing loss due to ototoxicity.
What is the (Esteem) Middle Ear Implant?
500
This device is recommended for single-sided deafness to overcome the head-shadow effect.
What is a bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA)?
500
For the cochlear implant, this high tech unit transfers acoustic input into electrical code based on an individual’s “map”.
What is the speech processor?
500
Typical length of loss-damage warranty for newly fitted personal hearing technology.
What is two years?
500
Pure tone threshold levels expected for a user of a cochlear implant.
What is 25 decibels?
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