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A child comes to the clinic due to problems understanding the teacher at the school. The child has a moderate hearing loss and wears bilateral hearing aids. Aided speech recognition scores at 55 dB HL in quiet were 88 % correct, with scores being 60% correct with a +5 SNR. Which of the following would be the best recommendation for the child? 

Which of the following are limitations of caloric testing? 

Patients with nonorganic hearing loss _______________

The best sensitivity for detecting OME in children can be obtained by recording

The amplitude of the OAE response is correlated with hearing sensitivity at the tested frequencies.

In some cases of incompletely treated acute suppurative otitis media, the infection within the middle ear cleft may persist in a chronic and indolent form and spread throughout the mastoid air cell system and into the bony septa which separate these mastoid cells.

The small central perforation result of an episode of acute otitis media, can be considered to be “natures Myringoplasty”.

When conducting the Valsalva maneuver a patient is __________ the pressure in the middle ear space

A factor that does NOT affect signal-to-noise ratio in a classroom: 

Which statement is accurate regarding measurements of unilateral weakness (UW) based on caloric irrigations?