This indicates the part of the ear where the hearing loss originates (either sensorineural, conductive, or mixed).
What is the pure tone audiogram?
100
Masking is always presented to the non-testing ear using this.
What are headphones?
100
The purpose of speech testing.
What is to determine the patient's ability to hear and understand speech?
100
Masking noise is always presented to the non-test ear, but is reported as this for the testing ear.
What is a masked threshold?
100
These materials are needed to perform speech testing.
What are: microphones, tape recorders/CD players, and masking (if used)?
200
The air conduction is in hearing loss range, bone conduction is in the normal range, and there are air bone gaps in this hearing loss.
What is conductive?
200
The ability of one sound to cover another.
What is masking?
200
Speech reception or recognition threshold.
What is the lowest level in which a patient is able to produce a response to speech stimuli?
200
Speech-language pathologists and ENTs must learn to read these.
What are audiograms?
200
Conversational speech occurs at this dB level.
What is 50dBHL?
300
NBN and FM
What are the types of testing that must be used in the sound field?
300
If the difference is less than this between air conduction, then there is no masking needed.
What is 40dB?
300
The speech (word) recognition score measures this.
What is the impact of hearing loss on speech understanding?
300
This type of conduction always represents the better cochlea.
What is unmasked bone conduction?
300
This is a major draw back of pure tones
What is that they don't represent real-world situations?
400
The number of degrees of hearing loss. (And list)
What is seven? (normal, minimal, mild, moderate, moderate-to-severe, severe, and profound)
400
Crossover always occurs. (T/F and explain)
True. Sound reaches the test ear, and a lesser amount will always reach the cochlea of the non-test ear.
400
This is the dB range for normal speech sounds.
What is 20-50dBHL?
400
This occurs when the crossover can be heard by the non-test ear.
What is crosshearing?
400
This is represented by the "speech banana."
What are the intensities of vowels and consonants?
500
Both air conduction and bone conduction are in the hearing loss range in this type of hearing loss.
What is sensorineural?
500
The amount of decibels lost in crossover going to the non-test ear.
What is interaural attenuation?
500
Speech recognition scores help to do these things.
What are identify an auditory disorder and to help determine need for rehabilitation and amplification
500
This results from the audiologist failing to mask appropriately.
What are errors in either the degree or type of hearing loss. How would this impact the patient?
500
These are issues of SRS testing.
What are: these tests don't significantly differentiate amongst listeners with hearing loss, cannot identify problems experienced by many listeners, and use of background noise is not standardized.