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Auditory Processing Disorders Series

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1.  Which of the following is a risk factor for APD in children? Premature Birth Chronic middle ear disease and associated conductive hearing loss Poor academic performance with no obvious non-auditory explanation All of the above are risk factors for APD in children

2.  Which of the following is a risk factor for APD in adults? Hearing complaints with a normal audiogram History of traumatic brain injury (TBI) Difficulty hearing speech in background noise All of the above are risk factors for APD in adults

3.  Which of the following is NOT an auditory process according to ASHA (2005) or AAA (2010)? Temporal aspects of audition Sound lateralization and localization Auditory discrimination Speech reception or recognition threshold (SRT)

4.  APD assessment is within the scope of practice for which of the following professions: Speech Pathology Psychology Medicine Audiology

5.  Dichotic deficits typically present in the clinic as: left ear deficits on dichotic tests right ear deficits on dichotic tests bilateral deficits on dichotic tests normal performance on dichotic tests

6.  Patients with dichotic deficits typically score more poorly on: pure tone audiometry DPOAEs hearing handicap measures 4.word recognition tests

7.  Dichotic training is based on which dichotic phenomenon? dichotic processing occurs more easily when stimuli are filtered adding interaural phase differences makes it harder to understand dichotic speech reducing the intensity of speech at one ear makes it easier to hear speech in the other ear none of the above

8.  Research shows dichotic training can benefit which of the following populations? children older adults neurologic patients all of the above

9.  According to the definitions of APD offered by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA, 2005) and the American Academy of Audiology (AAA, 2010), APD refers to difficulties in the perceptual processing of auditory information in the central nervous system, as demonstrated by poor performance in one or more of a list of skills. Which of the following skills is included in that list? Auditory memory Auditory attention Auditory discrimination Receptive Language

10.  A recent review of screening tools for APD by Wilson (2014) showed that: The evidence that questionnaires and checklists can be successfully used to screen for APD is compelling. The evidence that any of the currently available screening tools can be successfully used to screen for APD is equivocal, with no single tool standing out as a best candidate for screening for (C)APD. The evidence that tests can be used to successfully screen for APD is compelling. The evidence that test batteries can be used to successfully screen for APD is compelling.

11.  The evidence that direct auditory interventions affect auditory skills in persons diagnosed with APD is: Compelling: auditory interventions improve all auditory skills in persons diagnosed with APD Compelling: auditory interventions do not improve any auditory skills in persons diagnosed with APD Suggestive-to-compelling: some auditory interventions involving non-speech & simple speech training can improve some auditory skills in persons diagnosed with APD None of the above

12.  In APD assessment, a test battery for assessment of peripheral auditory function includes: Pure tone audiometry Otoacoustic Emissions Acoustic reflexes in ipsilateral and contralateral conditions All of the above are included in a test battery for assessment of peripheral auditory function

13.  The GIN test is an example of a procedure for assessing: Alcoholism Temporal auditory processing Speech perception in noise Lateralization and localization

14.  The LISN-S test measures which of the following: Use of speaker and spatial cues Auditory threshold and audibility Sequencing of auditory signals Dichotic listening

15.  Auditory training in APD is based on which of the following principles: Cross-check principle Articulation index Neural plasticity Preferred method