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Adult Aural Rehabilitation: Practical Approaches to Maximizing Benefit

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1.  The overarching goal of aural rehabilitation is to:
  1. decrease hearing-related predicament and increase conversational fluency
  2. increase hearing-related predicament and decrease conversational fluency
  3. improve quality of life
  4. help adults with hearing loss get back to work
2.  Post sensory management needs can be identified through:
  1. questionnaires
  2. interviews
  3. observations
  4. all of the above
3.  The following is a measure of the ease at which conversation flows:
  1. mean length of utterance (MLU)
  2. proportion of whole-word proximity (PWP)
  3. phonological mean length of utterance (pMLU)
  4. mean length turn (MLT)
4.  Auditory perceptual training that emphasizes the recognition of individual speech sounds in words is _______:
  1. analytic training
  2. synthetic training
  3. device instruction
  4. informational counseling
5.  Auditory perceptual training that emphasizes the understanding of meaning and not necessarily the identification and comprehension of every word in an utterance:
  1. analytic training
  2. device instruction
  3. synthetic training
  4. informational counseling
6.  Formal instruction and guided practice on devices such as hearing aids, cochlear implants and assistive listening devices to increase the probability of positive outcomes of sensory management are all parts of _________:
  1. perceptual training
  2. sensory management
  3. counseling
  4. device instruction
7.  Formal instruction, guided practice and real world practice that addresses participation and quality of life that result from residual deficits of function and activity are all parts of ________:
  1. perceptional training
  2. sensory management
  3. counseling
  4. device instruction
8.  What type of counseling focuses on the patient learning about hearing loss, listening device technology and services?
  1. information counseling
  2. support groups
  3. personal-adjustment counseling
  4. device instruction
9.  Practical solutions to meet the post sensory management needs of adults with hearing loss might include:
  1. training at home alone or with a family member via computer-based approaches
  2. partnering with hearing industry companies
  3. A & B
  4. hiring additional staff members such as a speech language pathologists
10.  Which of the following approaches most efficiently reduce aspects of hearing-related predicament:
  1. Counseling
  2. Holistic
  3. Perceptual Training
  4. Sensory Management and device instruction