Audiology PRAXIS Exam Questions and Answers All Correct
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Audiology PRAXIS Exam Questions and Answers All Correct
Describe a program designed for a person with a moderate HFHL who refuses to consider amplification - Answer LACE
What are the standards for classroom acoustics in terms of noise level and reverberation time? - Answer +15 dB SNR, 35 DBA...
Audiology PRAXIS Exam
Questions and Answers All
Correct
Describe a program designed for a person with a moderate HFHL who refuses to
consider amplification - Answer ✔ LACE
What are the standards for classroom acoustics in terms of noise level and
reverberation time? - Answer ✔ +15 dB SNR, 35 DBA, .6 sec reverb time
Identify treatments audiologists can provide for balance issues. - Answer ✔ can perform
tests but cannot diagnose. Can perform carnality repositioning; adaptation, habituation,
and substitution protocol; gaze stabilization exercises; static and dynamic balance
exercises
List the kinds of intervention that can alleviate benign paroxysmal positional vertigo? -
Answer ✔ employ or sermont maneuvers (typically posterior canal)
Lateral canal- log roll
Surgical option
What factors of a case put it outside the scope of audiologic practice? - Answer ✔
Surgical intervention, medical intervention
What factors call for referral to a speech pathologist, to an otolaryngologist, another
audiologist? - Answer ✔ speech pathologist- language therapy
ENT- medical referral
Other AuD- specialties (APD, tinnitus, vestib, etc)
what are the appropriate roles for audiology techs and aides? - Answer ✔ Audiology
assistants perform tasks supervised by audiologist. may/may not be regulated by state
laws, increase patient care by increasing services and productivity.
What is informed consent? - Answer ✔ permission granted in the knowledge of possible
consequences, full knowledge of risks and benefits
Discuss confidentiality or patients' records as prescribed by the ASHA code of ethics -
Answer ✔ -eval, treatment, discussion, and payment is confidential
-prohibited from revealing client info to unauthorized third parties
, -in case of child, only parent of record or guardian has right (some cases
biological/adoptive parents not allowed to know info)
-cannot discuss in public places
-should not share or store records on personal devices
how long is it necessary to keep patients records? - Answer ✔ billing records for 7 years
according to IRS
describe the requirements of HIPAA. - Answer ✔ -For every payer to represent the
items and services you provide, CPT is used for procedures and ICD-10 for diagnoses
-NPI for individual provider numbers
-EIN national employer identifier for each individual practice
-Protected health information (PHI) includes 18 identifiers of the patient, which can
include device serial numbers for HAs
What provisions of educational legislation (ex: IDEA) have an impact on audiology
practice? - Answer ✔ IDEA requires a free and appropriate public education, so for
audiology, a part of IEP so child can receive appropriate education
What is the role of an audiologist on an IEP team - Answer ✔ Determining services,
placements and accommodations for child with HL. Can include need for service,
language level, comm mode, need for interpreters, need for assistive devices and
personal hearing tech, classroom environment and accommodations
In what circumstance is advocacy for a patient by an audiologist required and
appropriate - Answer ✔ When patient is in need of assistive devices in work
environment (OVR); legally in the courts, can serve as an expert; schools for
accommodation
What is the meaning of statistical significance - Answer ✔ The probability of rejecting
the null hypothesis;
Explain the terms dependent variable and independent variable as they relate to
experimental design - Answer ✔ independent variable is changed or controlled, and
dependent is being tested or measured
Inverse Square Law - Answer ✔ as the distance from a sound source doubles, the
sound's intensity reduces by half the SPL when no obstruction is present (drop of 6 dB)
What is the relationship between fundamental frequencies and harmonics? - Answer ✔
F0= lowest freq component of a complex periodic sound; harmonic is a regular and
repeating multiple of the f0
In which frequencies and at what intensities are most speech sounds produced? -
Answer ✔ 30-3000 Hz, 55-65 dB
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