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A 16-year-old teenager, who has a profound hearing loss, is on your caseload.  She has been wearing hearing aids since she was 2 years old. Regarding assistive devices, the best course of action would be:

In pediatric audiology, the most appropriate test method is chosen according to:

Questions 19-24 refer to the following Case 4:A child is born with both outer ears appearing as they do in the photograph shown below: the pinna is not complete and there is no external ear canal opening (the photograph is shown AFTER the question).Question 23:This infant’s “Team” would likely consist of:

Questions 1-9 refer to the following Case 1: This patient is an 82-year-old gentleman with a history of a gradually progressive hearing loss in both ears, over the last 15 years.  He states that he has difficulty hearing, especially in groups and that he understands better when people speak more slowly.  This is the first complete hearing evaluation he has ever received.  Consider his history and the audiometric data below, and then answer the following questions about this case:     250 Hz   500 Hz   1000 Hz   2000 Hz   3000 Hz   4000 Hz   8000 Hz   Right Ear   Air Conduction   30 dB HL   35dB HL   40dB HL   55 dB HL   70 dB HL   70 dB HL   70 dB HL   Left Ear   Air Conduction    30 dB HL   30 dB HL   40 dB HL   55 dB HL   65 dB HL   70 dB HL   70 dB HL   Unmasked   Bone Conduction   25 dB HL   35 dB HL   35 dB HL   55 dB HL   65 dB HL   70 dB HL   ———-       Otoscopy   Tympanograms   SRT   WRS   Right Ear   Non- impacted cerumen both ears   Type A both ears   45   76%   Left Ear   45   72%     Question 6: Regarding audiological intervention for this gentleman’s hearing loss:

What is the frequency (cycles per second) of the waveform shown below?

Questions 25-33 refer to the following Case 5 (the case is shown after the question):Question 29:Based on ABR results and continued normal tympanograms, UNAIDED, about what percentage of the normal conversation level of his parents’ voices would be audible to this child? SCROLL DOWN TO USE THE COUNT-THE-DOTS AUDIOGRAM.

Word Recognition Scores are obtained using:

The patient whose audiogram is shown here is age seven years. The degree of hearing loss is:

What is known as the “speech banana” represents:

An otoacoustic emissions test measures: