SHS 421 ARBY FINAL EXAM – Questions And Answers
Habilitation Right Ans - to equip someone with something so that a person
can function normally in the normal world. Such as prosthetic arm, leg, or any
other limp, also training to help with better movement.
Rehabilitation Right Ans - to help someone relearn skills or bring back
someone to their normal self or functioning after that function has been lost.
Ex: teenager loses an arm but they had the arm before they just lost it so you
are training them to regain the function of the lost limb.
Audiology Habilitation Right Ans - Someone who was born with the loss of
hearing. Equipping someone to regain their hearing (deaf, mild/moderate
hearing loss) help the child to speak, function well, use the hearing aid and
other devices so the child can function well.
Audiology rehabilitation Right Ans - those who acquire hearing loss at a
later age. So you help them regain that function or ability to hear. Its the
process where you assist a person with hearing loss to achieve better
communication skills and minimize the negative effects of hearing loss.
Goals of Audiology rehabilitation Right Ans - • The goal is to enhance the
activities and participation of a person with hearing loss so as to improve his
or her quality of life. Achieving adequate receptive and expressive
communication is a major means of reaching this goal.
• The processes/procedures include the use of devices to minimize the
hearing loss and teaching strategies and problem solving, which in
combination assist the individual to overcome interpersonal, psychosocial,
educational, and vocational difficulties resulting from the hearing loss.
• A clear objective is to limit the negative effects on significant others.
• Finally, it is important for the individual to accept and come to terms with
any residual problems associated with hearing loss.
Multidisciplinary Right Ans - More than one field contribute to aural
rehabilitation
,Audiologist, ENT (Otorhinolaryngologist), speech language pathologist,
psychiatrist or clinical psychologist, educators, parents family friends
significant others, social worker, electronics and computer engineers Right
Ans - What are the different fields in aural rehabilitation?
Audiologist Right Ans - auditory training
ENT- Otorhinolaryngologist, Otologists (ear surgeon, ear specialist)- Right
Ans - they put in the cochlear implants
Speech language pathologists Right Ans - communication skills, language
and therapy. Express your language.
Psychiatrist or clinical psychologists Right Ans - counseling, assessment of
the person see if the hearing loss affects their emotional state.
Educators Right Ans - identification, educating the person.
Social worker Right Ans - working with family parents to minimize the
effect of hearing loss on the emotional toll of the family.
Electronics and computer Engineers Right Ans - build the hearing aids.
Doctorate (AuD), (PhD), (CCC- A- certificate of clinical competence in
audiology and awarded by ASHA), (state licensure) Right Ans - What
education is needed to be an Audiologist?
(Masters degree: MA or MS), (PhD), (ccc-SLP), (state license) Right Ans -
What education is needed to be a speech pathologist?
Practice settings- private practice, hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, rehab
facilities (home health), Right Ans - What are the practice settings?
schools, early intervention, residential school classrooms- school for the deaf,
parent groups, school conservation program follow up, school resource room.
Right Ans - What are practice settings for children?
university and technical school, vocational rehab, military related facilities,
ent clinic, community hospital and university hearing clinics, hearing
, instruments specialists and dispensers. Right Ans - What are practice
settings for adults?
Elderly Adults: community programs, nursing homes and long term care
facilities, also the settings listed in adults. Right Ans - What are practice
settings for elderly adults?
evidence based practice (EBP) is a contemporary issue. Right Ans - There
are a number of methods and approaches you want to be sure they are based
on evidence and that they are positive approaches to use. If a parent asked
how is this helping my child you need to have evidence to back your method
up.
Hearing aids Right Ans - Can reduce the background noise to help with
hearing.
Automatic gain control Right Ans - controls the output of hearing aids
automatically according to the set amount
Threshold of pain Right Ans - how much dB the ear can take before it hurts
the ears if it goes above 130-140 dB.
Cochlear implants Right Ans - can be surgically inserted so the age in years
has increased. The ability to implant them is much better and they are
becoming more common.
1. AAA- American Academy of Audiology.
2. ASHA- American Speech and Hearing Association
3. ARA- Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology Right Ans - What are some
Professional societies/ associations?
Acoustics Right Ans - science of sound that deals with how the sound is
produced modification of the sound and then transmission of sound, and
analysis of sound.
Audiology Right Ans - deals with hearing
contains one frequency (Ex. Tuning forks), Right Ans - What is a simple
sound?
Habilitation Right Ans - to equip someone with something so that a person
can function normally in the normal world. Such as prosthetic arm, leg, or any
other limp, also training to help with better movement.
Rehabilitation Right Ans - to help someone relearn skills or bring back
someone to their normal self or functioning after that function has been lost.
Ex: teenager loses an arm but they had the arm before they just lost it so you
are training them to regain the function of the lost limb.
Audiology Habilitation Right Ans - Someone who was born with the loss of
hearing. Equipping someone to regain their hearing (deaf, mild/moderate
hearing loss) help the child to speak, function well, use the hearing aid and
other devices so the child can function well.
Audiology rehabilitation Right Ans - those who acquire hearing loss at a
later age. So you help them regain that function or ability to hear. Its the
process where you assist a person with hearing loss to achieve better
communication skills and minimize the negative effects of hearing loss.
Goals of Audiology rehabilitation Right Ans - • The goal is to enhance the
activities and participation of a person with hearing loss so as to improve his
or her quality of life. Achieving adequate receptive and expressive
communication is a major means of reaching this goal.
• The processes/procedures include the use of devices to minimize the
hearing loss and teaching strategies and problem solving, which in
combination assist the individual to overcome interpersonal, psychosocial,
educational, and vocational difficulties resulting from the hearing loss.
• A clear objective is to limit the negative effects on significant others.
• Finally, it is important for the individual to accept and come to terms with
any residual problems associated with hearing loss.
Multidisciplinary Right Ans - More than one field contribute to aural
rehabilitation
,Audiologist, ENT (Otorhinolaryngologist), speech language pathologist,
psychiatrist or clinical psychologist, educators, parents family friends
significant others, social worker, electronics and computer engineers Right
Ans - What are the different fields in aural rehabilitation?
Audiologist Right Ans - auditory training
ENT- Otorhinolaryngologist, Otologists (ear surgeon, ear specialist)- Right
Ans - they put in the cochlear implants
Speech language pathologists Right Ans - communication skills, language
and therapy. Express your language.
Psychiatrist or clinical psychologists Right Ans - counseling, assessment of
the person see if the hearing loss affects their emotional state.
Educators Right Ans - identification, educating the person.
Social worker Right Ans - working with family parents to minimize the
effect of hearing loss on the emotional toll of the family.
Electronics and computer Engineers Right Ans - build the hearing aids.
Doctorate (AuD), (PhD), (CCC- A- certificate of clinical competence in
audiology and awarded by ASHA), (state licensure) Right Ans - What
education is needed to be an Audiologist?
(Masters degree: MA or MS), (PhD), (ccc-SLP), (state license) Right Ans -
What education is needed to be a speech pathologist?
Practice settings- private practice, hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, rehab
facilities (home health), Right Ans - What are the practice settings?
schools, early intervention, residential school classrooms- school for the deaf,
parent groups, school conservation program follow up, school resource room.
Right Ans - What are practice settings for children?
university and technical school, vocational rehab, military related facilities,
ent clinic, community hospital and university hearing clinics, hearing
, instruments specialists and dispensers. Right Ans - What are practice
settings for adults?
Elderly Adults: community programs, nursing homes and long term care
facilities, also the settings listed in adults. Right Ans - What are practice
settings for elderly adults?
evidence based practice (EBP) is a contemporary issue. Right Ans - There
are a number of methods and approaches you want to be sure they are based
on evidence and that they are positive approaches to use. If a parent asked
how is this helping my child you need to have evidence to back your method
up.
Hearing aids Right Ans - Can reduce the background noise to help with
hearing.
Automatic gain control Right Ans - controls the output of hearing aids
automatically according to the set amount
Threshold of pain Right Ans - how much dB the ear can take before it hurts
the ears if it goes above 130-140 dB.
Cochlear implants Right Ans - can be surgically inserted so the age in years
has increased. The ability to implant them is much better and they are
becoming more common.
1. AAA- American Academy of Audiology.
2. ASHA- American Speech and Hearing Association
3. ARA- Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology Right Ans - What are some
Professional societies/ associations?
Acoustics Right Ans - science of sound that deals with how the sound is
produced modification of the sound and then transmission of sound, and
analysis of sound.
Audiology Right Ans - deals with hearing
contains one frequency (Ex. Tuning forks), Right Ans - What is a simple
sound?
