SHS 421 (Dr. Goshorn) Study Guide Exam 1 – Qs & As
Rehabilitation means to: Right Ans - means to restore skills that were lost.
Providers of Aural Rehab include: Right Ans - -Audiologist
-SLP
(SLPs and AUDs often lead the team of professionals)
-Deaf Educators
-Physicians
-Social Workers
-Psychologists
-Others
Who is the primary health care professionals in the management of hearing
loss. Right Ans - audiologists, SLPs and educators of the deaf and hearing
impaired are the primary providers of aural rehabilitation
Aural Rehabilitation is: Right Ans - intervention aimed at minimizing and
alleviating the communication difficulties associated with hearing loss.
The goals of Audiologic Rehabilitation include: Right Ans - 1.Alleviate the
difficulties related to hearing loss.
2.Minimize its consequences. 3.Empower the patient.
Definitions of hearing loss on Table 1.3 in your text. Right Ans - -Prelingual
deafness refers to hearing loss present at birth or prior to the development of
speech and language.
-Perilingual deafness, which has emerged to define the situation when
deafness is acquired while developing a first language.
-Postlingual deafness means that loss occurs after about age 5; its overall
effects are therefore usually less serious.
Severe hearing loss can be divided into three categories with regards to time
of onset: What are the important characteristics of hearing loss as they relate
, to audiologic rehabilitation? Right Ans - Time of onset, degree, type of loss,
and speech recognition abilities
Name and describe the three types of hearing loss? Right Ans - Conductive,
sensorinueral & Mixed
Define audiometrically deaf Right Ans - unable to comprehend
conversational speech with hearing alone
Define hard of hearing Right Ans - can comprehend some of their residual
hearing for speech comprehension
The term deafened refers to: Right Ans - individuals who lose their hearing
after schooling
What is the difference between speech recognition or identification and
speech discrimination? Right Ans - Recognition/Identification is the ability
to repeat a word. Speech discrimination is the ability to differentiate the
sounds in a word.
Define phonemic regression Right Ans - greater difficulty understanding
speech than would be predicted from the amount of hearing loss. A result of
central degeneration. Example: persons of advanced age, mild hearing loss,
sometimes exhibit very poor speech recognition.
At least what % of the population has permanent, significant impairment of
hearing? Right Ans -
With youngsters who are deaf or have severe impairment, what primarily
determines the extent to which normal speech and language will be present?
Right Ans - Time of Onset
Impairment Right Ans -
activities limitations Right Ans -
participation limitations Right Ans -
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