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Essentials of Practice Management for Educational Audiologists, Presented in Partnership with the Educational Audiology Association

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1.  As a result of performing good practice management, you will:
  1. increase your contract time
  2. decrease your contract time
  3. work smarter
  4. have an administrative assistant
2.  Use regulations and case law primarily to:
  1. justify services
  2. establish caseloads
  3. confront a special education director
  4. develop a budget
3.  Tracking your time is most effective using:
  1. a caseload analysis
  2. a workload analysis
  3. a timesheet analysis
  4. a contract analysis
4.  Participation on your local EHDI team is an example of:
  1. Knowing who the kids are
  2. Collaboration
  3. Being visible in the community
  4. all of the above
5.  Program planning is important for all of the following except:
  1. to establish priorities
  2. to identify long-term budget needs
  3. to justify a salary increase
  4. to expand services
6.  It is important to know who the children are with hearing loss:
  1. to track their performance levels
  2. to help prevent children with hearing loss from falling through the cracks
  3. to ensure a complete database that includes all students with hearing loss
  4. all of the above
7.  Offering hearing tests to school board members is an example of:
  1. a method for your school board members to get to know you and the services you provide
  2. identifying school board members who might have a hearing loss
  3. misuse of time
  4. hearing loss prevention education
8.  What is the most important result of advocacy activities by the educational audiologist?
  1. To justify our services
  2. To help ensure the children with hearing loss in our schools get the supports and services they need
  3. Special education directors will have a better understanding of what we do
  4. Increased awareness about the needs of children with hearing loss
9.  A student database should minimally include:
  1. name/ID number, grade
  2. degree/type of HL, amplification used
  3. services (e.g., IEP, 504 or none)
  4. all of the above
10.  The student database is important because it:
  1. provides quantifiable demographic information on all students with HL in the district
  2. can be disaggregated by variables (school, degree of HL, users of amplification, services)
  3. informs the IEP team
  4. a and b