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Flip Your Expectations: Introducing the Sonic Flip miniRIC

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1.  Flip is a...
  1. RIC with a size 312 battery
  2. miniRIC with a size 13 battery
  3. RIC with a size 13 battery
  4. miniRIC with a size 312 battery
2.  All of the following are features of Flip EXCEPT:
  1. Binaural Synchronization
  2. Wireless Connectivity
  3. Volume Control
  4. Two levels of technology
3.  There are ________ standard open dome options for Flip.
  1. 3
  2. 4
  3. 5
  4. 6
4.  Which of the following supplies are required to program a Flip instrument?
  1. Flex strip
  2. Programming pill
  3. Boot
  4. None of the above
5.  Speech Variable Processing can best be described as...
  1. A fast acting system that applies the same amount of amplification to all aspects of speech
  2. A super-fast acting system that applies the correct amount of amplification to preserve all the nuances of speech.
  3. A method of speech processing that applies amplification to soft speech quickly.
  4. A super-fast acting system that applies a homogenous amount of amplification to all the aspects of speech.
6.  All of the following is a way that Flip combats unwanted noise EXCEPT:
  1. Hybrid Noise Reduction
  2. Wind Noise Reduction
  3. Impulse Noise Reduction
  4. Speech Priority Noise Reduction
7.  The Adaptive Feedback Canceller in Flip recognizes an incoming sound as being feedback in about...?
  1. 3 milliseconds
  2. 5 milliseconds
  3. 3 seconds
  4. 5 seconds
8.  Data Learning can best be described as:
  1. A feature in some hearing aids that allows the aid to collect data over time.
  2. Not a feature of Flip
  3. A feature in some hearing aids that can analyze volume control adjustments over time and make changes to the default volume settings based on this data.
  4. A feature in some hearing aids that can analyze and report how the patient has been using their hearing aids over time. lyze and report how the patient has been using their hearing aids over time.
9.  Which of the following is true about the Environmental Classification system in Flip?
  1. Speech is given the highest priority
  2. Wind noise is taken into account in each aid separately
  3. It analyzes the auditory scene and selects the ideal configuration for the Universal program
  4. All of the above
10.  All of the following are characteristics of Soft Noise Reduction EXCEPT:
  1. reduces quiet sounds in the environment
  2. reduces sounds that are below the range of speech
  3. Separates noise from the modulated speech signal
  4. Is one of the ways that Flip combats environmental noise.